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Winter College Sports Honors

•Hilton grad and Binghamton University graduate student Lou DePrez advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the third straight season. To get to the quarterfinals, DePrez, the No. 6 seed in the tournament at 197 lbs., defeated both Oklahoma State’s Luke Surber and Minnesota’s Garrett Joles. By winning both matches, DePrez has also reached 10 career wins at the NCAA Wrestling Championships, second most in team history.

•Merrimack junior Taylor Lucas (Hilton) was named Second Team All-Conference in women’s bowling in her first year after transferring from Sam Houston State.

•SUNY Brockport’s Caquan Wester was named SUNYAC Rookie of the Year and Third-Team All-Conference as the conference leader in defensive rebounds and the team’s second leading scorer in men’s basketball. Danny Ashley was named Tom Spanbauer Defensive Player of the Year after finishing second in the conference with 34 steals in league play, adding 55 assists, 54 rebounds, and 75 points in 23 games. Junior Tony Arnold was also named Third Team All-Conference as he led the Golden Eagles with 305 points (12.2 ppg), adding 4.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. Arnold would finish the year first in conference play in steals (36), third in assists (62), and sixth in free throws made (56).

•Brockport senior gymnasts Maren Eramo and Emma Grace Sargent were named All-Americans by the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association. Eramo was named as a first team selection while Sargent earned second team status. Eramo led all gymnasts in Division III with a vault NQS of 9.815, while Sargent placed second in division III on the bars with an NQS of 9.770. Eramo also earned All-American status on the vault for a second consecutive year. Sargent also became a two-time All-American on the bars, finishing the year with a 9.8188 SAS and a school-record season-high of 9.850 on the uneven bars.

Malik Brooks and Kevin Constant of the Roberts Wesleyan University men’s basketball team were named East Coast Conference First Team and Third Team, respectively, in men’s basketball. Brooks led the Redhawks and ranked fourth in the ECC in scoring at 17.3 points per game. Constant averaged 15.4 points in 19 games to rank second on the Redhawks. He led the ECC in field-goal percentage (.603).

•Redhawks women’s basketball players Danielle DiCintio and Georgia Haverlock were both named Third-Team All-Conference in the East Coast Conference. DiCintio, a senior, led the Redhawks in scoring (12.8 points per game), assists (5.0 assists per game), and three-point field goals. Haverock, a graduate student, averaged 12.2 points and 5.9 rebounds. She compiled 54 assists and 21 steals and scored her 1,000th career point.

Mykenzie Burnett was named to the All-Conference Second Team for the Roberts Wesleyan women’s bowling team.

Stephanie Jean-Baptiste and Zairea Hannah were named Second Team All-Conference and Zoe Zutes Third Team for SUNY Brockport’s women’s basketball squad. Jean-Baptiste paced the Golden Eagle’s offense scoring 15.3 ppg (3rd in the SUNYAC) and shooting a team-best 75.7% from the line (7th in the SUNYAC). Hannah finished the year as the leading rebounder in the conference (324 – 7th in Division III) and 12.5 rebounds per game (11th in D3). She set a new program record for rebounds in a single season. Zutes averaged 10.5 ppg in addition to becoming the SUNYAC’s top threat from three-point range, leading the conference in three-point percentage at 42.4% and was third in the conference with 46 blocked shots.

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