Eight Athletes Chosen As Landmark Players of the Week
MADISON, N.J. - Another full week of winter sports action has earned eight student-athletes Landmark Player of the Week recognition. The Landmark Player of the Week selections are made by the Landmark Conference office.
Men's Basketball:
Junior Jason Banzhaf helped Catholic pick up a pair of crucial
road conference wins as the Cardinals enjoyed a perfect 2-0 week.
He helped avenge an early season loss by scoring 23 points and
grabbing 12 rebounds in a win over Susquehanna, then followed it up
with a second double-double by going for 13 points and 10 rebounds
in a win over Juniata. He shot 61-percent from the field,
40-percent from three-point range and averaged 19 points and 11
rebounds over the two games. He also added four steals on the
defensive end.
Women's Basketball:
Moravian’s Alexandra Blair turned in three strong efforts to
help the Greyhounds go 3-0 on the week and extend their winning
streak to 13 games. She posted a huge 16-point, 18-rebound game in
a non-conference win over Alvernia, doing that damage in just 21
minutes of action. The 18 rebounds are a Landmark single-game
record. She then added 10 points in a conference win over Drew, and
11 points and nine rebounds in a victory over USMMA. She also
contributed 10 blocked shots for the week, with five coming against
Alvernia. She averaged 12.3 points, 10 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per
game, while shooting 59-percent from the floor.
Men's Field:
Freshman Travis King had another strong performance for
the Greyhounds at the Delaware Thomson Invitational. He placed
second among 20 competitors in the triple jump, posting a best leap
of 13.30 meters, second-best in the Landmark this season and fourth
best mark in Landmark history indoors.
Women's Field:
Senior Rachel Riggs helped Moravian place third among 12
Division II/III teams at the Delaware Thompson Invitational. She
won the triple jump event, posting a leap of 10.60 meters, and then
jumped 4.95 meters to add a third-place effort in the long jump.
She also contributed a third and eighth-place finishes on the track
in the 200 and 60-meter dashes respectively.
Men's Swimming & Diving:
USMMA’s Trevor Mays helped his team conclude its
dual-meet season with a tie against nationally-ranked Stevens
Institute. The sophomore won two events, posting a time of 1:44.34
to win the 200 freestyle, and 48.27 to win the 100 freestyle, with
both times ranking among the fastest in the conference this season.
He also added a second-place finish in thr 500 freestyle, and swam
the anchor leg on the winning 400 freestyle relay.
Women's Swimming & Diving:
Junior Lindsay Cooper helped Juniata to its first win of
the season with a strong performance in a tri-meet at Penn
State-Atoona. She earned first-place finishes in three individual
events, touching the wall first in the 50 freestyle (26.87), the
100 freestye (59.36) and the 100 breaststroke (1:17.42) to help
Juniata earn a win over Hood as part of the tri-meet.
Men's Track:
Paul Thistle ran an NCAA Division III provisional
quaifying time in the 5,000-meter run at the Bucknell Open and
Multi meet this weekend. Thistle placed second out of 45 runners
from all three divisions in the race, posting a time of 14:47.16
that broke the Susquehanna school record and provisionally
qualifies him for the NCAA Championships.
Women's Track:
Against a field of runners from Divisions I II and III
Susquehanna’s Casey Hess turned in a fifth-place performance
in the 5,000 meters at the Bucknell Open and Multi meet. Hess
covered the distance in a time of 18:13.14, the second-fastest
indoor time in Landmark history for 5,000 meters, and the fastest
in the conference this season.
