Player of the Week (Mar. 3)
Mallory Davis, Utica College
Jr., G, Vernon-Rockville, CT/Rockville HS

Davis was named Most Valuable Player for leading Utica to the Empire 8 Women’s Basketball Championship title.  She averaged 15 points and three rebounds in the two games, hitting 7-of-10 from three-point range.  Davis hit a 3-pointer to give the Pioneers a 27-25 lead early in the second half, a lead they would not relinquish, in the 55-46 title game win over host and top-seeded Stevens.


Rookie of the Week (Mar. 3)
Jessica Berry, Utica College
So., F, Rome, NY/Rome Free Academy HS

Berry averaged 19 points and 11 rebounds as Utica swept the Empire 8 Women’s Basketball Championship and earned their first conference title.  She scored the game-tying three-point play with 26 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime in the Pioneers’ 75-64 semifinal victory over defending champion Ithaca.


Empire 8 Women's Basketball team notes...

RIT finished with 12 wins, the second-highest win total in the program’s history.  Senior Joanna Dobeck recorded her 14th double-double of the season with 19 points and 12 boards in the Tigers’ 73-60 loss to Potsdam in the ECAC Upstate Championship first round… Stevens set a school record for wins with 24, while capturing its first ECAC Metro Championship title in school history.  Senior forward Dora Enright, the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, became the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,704 points with 17 points as the third-seeded Ducks defeated host Montclair State 57-50 in the championship game.  Enright totaled 17 points and 11 rebounds in a 72-63 semifinal victory over Staten Island.  Junior guard Dani Dudek tallied 19 points, 10 assists, seven rebounds, and three steals in the Ducks’ 73-48 win over Lehman in the quarterfinals… St. John Fisher senior Allison Boehm completed her career with 22 points and 15 rebounds in the Cardinals’ 83-73 loss to Oswego in the ECAC Upstate Championship quarterfinals… First-year guard Devon Croll led four Utica players in double figures with 19 points in an 83-76 loss to 11th-ranked Kean in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Championship.

Empire 8 Weekly Honors
Players of the Week Rookies of the Week

Mar. 3 Mallory Davis, Utica

Mar. 3 Jessica Berry, Utica

Feb. 24 Katherine Bixby, Ithaca

Feb. 24 Elli Vandegrift, RIT

Feb. 17 Joanna Dobeck, RIT

Feb. 17 Brianna O'Dell, RIT

Feb. 10 Katherine Bixby, Ithaca

Feb. 10 Brianna O'Dell, RIT

Feb. 3 Lindsay Brown, Ithaca

Feb. 3 Jessica Berry, Utica

Jan. 27 Bridget Catanese, Elmira

Jan. 27 Jessica Berry, Utica

Jan. 20 Katherine Bixby, Elmira College; Allison Boehm, St. John Fisher

Jan. 20 Becky Peterman, Elmira

Jan. 13 Allison Boehm, St. John Fisher

Jan. 13 Victoria O'Connor, Stevens

Jan. 6 Dora Enright, Stevens

Jan. 6 Devon Croll, Utica

Dec. 19 Dani Dudeck, Stevens

Dec. 19 Fritzi Flores, Hartwick

Dec. 9 Allison Boehm, St. John Fisher;
Lizzie Barlow, Nazareth

Dec. 9 Brianna O'Dell, RIT

Dec. 2 Dora Enright, Stevens

Dec. 2 Devon Croll, Utica

Nov. 26 Allison Boehm, St. John Fisher

Nov. 26 Victoria Webber, Stevens

Nov. 18 Bridget Catanese, Elmira

Nov. 18 Erin Rupell, Elmira