UNH WEEKLY ROUNDUP
November 23, 2009
DURHAM,
N.H. –
Kelly Paton (Woodstock, Ontario) of the women’s ice hockey team
and Paul Thompson (Derry, N.H.) of the men’s hockey team are featured
in this week's Service Credit Union Student-Athlete Spotlight. This
information and more can be found in this week's Wildcat
Roundup.
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| KELLY PATON
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| PAUL THOMPSON
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STUDENT-ATHLETE
SPOTLIGHT
Kelly
Paton, women’s ice hockey
Kelly, a senior forward and
captain from Woodstock, Ontario, tallied three goals and an assist
in two games last week as UNH went 1-0-1 vs. ECAC foes. Paton
recorded her second career hat trick and also matched her career
high in points (four) to spearhead the team’s 4-3 comeback
victory against Rensselaer. Her first goal of the game gave the
‘Cats a 1-0 lead and her next goal pulled the team within 3-2
in the second stanza. Paton set up the game-tying goal at 7:49 of
the final frame and scored the game-winning goal on an unassisted
effort off a faceoff at 9:37.
Paul
Thompson, men’s hockey
Paul, a
junior forward from Derry, N.H., had three assists and two
goals for five points in the weekend against Boston University. He
notched a goal and an assist in Friday’s 4-2 win at the
Whittemore Center and followed that up with a pair of goals and an
assist in Saturday’s tie as he factored in all three New
Hampshire goals.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Men’s hockey:
Brian Foster, Defensive Player of the Week (Hockey East)
Women’s ice
hockey: Kelly Paton, Pure Hockey Player of the Week (Hockey East)
Women’s ice
hockey: Lindsey Minton, Defensive Player of the Week (Hockey East)
LAST WEEK’S
RESULTS
Monday,
Nov. 16
Women’s
basketball: at #21 Maryland 63, UNH 43
Wednesday, Nov. 18
Women’s ice
hockey: #4 UNH 1, at Harvard 1 (tie-overtime)
Friday,
Nov. 20
Women’s
basketball: at UNH 58, UMass 57
Men’s ice
hockey: at UNH 4, Boston U. 2
Volleyball:
Binghamton 3, UNH 0
(at Albany – America East semifinal)
Men’s
basketball: at #25 Maryland 82, UNH 55
Saturday, Nov. 21
Football: at #11
UNH 27, Maine 24
Women’s ice
hockey: at #4 UNH 4, Rensselaer 3
Men’s ice
hockey: UNH 3, at Boston U. 3 (tie-overtime)
Men’s cross
country: 3rd at ICAAAA Championships (Holmdel Park;
Holmdel, N.J.)
Women’s cross
country: 6th at ECAC Championships (Holmdel Park;
Holmdel, N.J.)
Sunday,
Nov. 22
Women’s swim
& dive: 6th place at Terrier Invitational (at Boston
University)
THIS WEEK’S
EVENTS
Tuesday, Nov. 24
Women’s
basketball vs. Harvard, 7 pm
Wednesday, Nov. 25
Men’s
basketball at Harvard, 7 pm
Saturday, Nov. 28
Men’s
basketball vs. Marist, 1 pm
Football at McNeese
State, 3 pm Eastern (FCS first round game)
Men’s hockey
at Merrimack, 4 pm
Sunday,
Nov. 29
Women’s
basketball at Quinnipiac, 12 pm
Women’s ice
hockey at Northeastern, 2 pm
MEN’S
BASKETBALL
- UNH lost 82-55
last week at 25th-ranked Maryland. Senior tri-captain
Colbey Santos (Onset, Mass.) scored a team-high 14 points,
all in a span of five minutes. He was 4 of 9 from three-point range
and made 5 of 10 overall from the floor.
- Radar Onguetou
(Yaounde, Cameroon) scored nine points on 3-for-4 shooting from
3-point range. He has hit 5 of 6 3-pointers this season.
WOMEN’S
BASKETBALL
- UNH improved to
2-0 at home and 2-1 overall with a 58-57 victory against UMass last
Friday. The Wildcats shot 44% from the floor in the second half and
outscored the Minutewomen 32-22.
- Sophomore
forward Denise Beliveau (Framingham, Mass.) had a solid stat line
vs. UMass with 15 points, four rebounds, two assists and three
steals. She is averaging 14.7points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.3 steals and
1.0 assists per game this season.
MEN’S CROSS
COUNTRY
- UNH closed out
the 2009 season with a third-place finish at the IC4A Championship
that was held Nov. 21 at Van Cortland Park in New York City. The
Wildcats tallied 147 points to place behind Temple (70) and Albany
(131) in the 24-team meet.
- Wesley
Dinnan (Juneau, Alaska)
was the top Wildcat in eighth place. Cory
Sinotte (Hooksett,
N.H.) was next in 15th place followed by
Ben Jenkins (Francestown, N.H.) in
21st.
WOMEN’S CROSS
COUNTRY
- UNH wrapped up
the 2009 season with a sixth-place finish at the ECAC Championship
that was held Nov. 21 at Van Cortland Park in New York City. Twenty
teams competed at the race.
- Allison
Letourneau (Kingston,
Nova Scotia) was the first Wildcat to cross the finish line in
10th place overall. Jennifer
Racine (Haverhill,
Mass.) and Erin Phillips (Belmont, N.H.) also placed in the top 20 at
16th and 20th, respectively.
FOOTBALL (9-2, 6-2
CAA)
- UNH won the CAA
North Division title with its 27-24 victory against Maine last
Saturday at Cowell Stadium. It was the seventh consecutive year
that UNH won the battle for the Brice Cowell Musket.
- The Wildcats
will be making their sixth consecutive appearance in the NCAA FCS
Championships and play at McNeese State (Lake Charles, La.) in a
first-round game on Nov. 28 (3 p.m. Eastern).
- UNH has advanced
to the NCAA quarterfinals four of the last five years.
- UNH leads the
CAA in turnover margin and scoring average. The team is also #3 in
the nation in kickoff return average.
MEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (4-6-3, 3-2-1 Hockey East)
- UNH won three of
four points last weekend against Boston University with a 4-2 win
at home and a 3-3 tie on the road.
- Bobby
Butler (Marlboro,
Mass.) extended his point-scoring streak to six games with four
points on the weekend, including a career-high three-assist effort
Saturday. Butler is the league’s leading scorer and the first
player in Hockey East to reach double digits in goals.
- Blake
Kesssel (Verona, Wis.)
is one of three Hockey East players in double digits in assists
with 10, and he is one of four defensemen in the nation in
double-figure assists.
- UNH is 3-0-1 in
its last four games at the Whittemore Center.
WOMEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (9-1-4, 4-0-1-0 Hockey
East)
- UNH extended its
unbeaten streak to seven games (4-0-3) with a 1-1 tie at Harvard
and 4-3 win vs. Rensselaer.
- In just 14
games, Kelly Paton (Woodstock, Ontario) has already recorded
double digits in both goals (10) and assists (16).
- UNH leads the
nation in power play percentage and is also third in penalty kill,
fourth in offense and 10th in defense.
- There are two
Wildcats that rank No. 1 in the nation –
Courtney Birchard (Mississauga, Ontario) is the leader in
defensemen scoring and Micaela Long (South Boston, Mass.) is atop the
assist leaderboard.
SWIMMING & DIVING
(4-0)
- UNH finished in
sixth place at the three-day Terrier Invitational (at Boston U.)
behind the efforts of Allison Nahin (Hartland, Wis.) and Amy
Perrault (Kirkland
Lake, Ontario), both of whom recorded a second-place finish. Nahin
was second to touch the wall in the 100-yard breaststroke and
Perrault was the runner-up in the 100 backstroke.
- Perrault also
placed sixth in the 200 individual medley and swam on both the 400
medley relay (fifth place) and 400 freestyle relay (fifth).
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VOLLEYBALL (13-15, 5-5
America East)
- UNH ended the
2009 season with a loss to Binghamton University in the America
East semifinals. Kate Uitti (Pinckney, Mich) was selected to the
All-Championship Team.
- Sara
Heldman (Greenwood,
Ind.) was named the America East co-Defensive Specialist of the
Year. Heldman was also selected to the All-Conference Second
Team.
- Lindsay
Fogarty (Pleasanton,
Calif.) was voted to the America East All-Conference First Team,
while Kirsten Bates (Calgary, Alberta) joined Heldman on the
Second Team.
