UNH WEEKLY ROUNDUP
December 7, 2009
DURHAM, N.H. – Shelli Reed
(Hollister, Calif.) of the
women’s swimming & diving team and Brian
Foster (Pembroke, N.H.)
of the men’s ice 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.
STUDENT-ATHLETE
SPOTLIGHT
Shelli
Reed, women’s swimming and diving
Shelli, a freshman swimmer
from Hollister, California, helped UNH rally to a 152-148 victory
against the University of Vermont at Swasey Pool on Dec. 6. In her
first event of the day, Shelli placed second in the 50-yard
freestyle. She went on to finish first in the 100 free (52.77
seconds) and 100 butterfly with a personal best time of 58.29. And
with UNH trailing by five points entering the final event of the
day – the 400 free relay – Shelli swam a 52.87 in the
second leg to propel the Wildcats to first place with a time of
3:33.77; that winning time was two-tenths-of-a-second off the
Swasey Pool record.
Brian
Foster, men’s ice hockey
Brian, a
senior goaltender from Pembroke, New Hampshire, backboned UNH to
victories against nationally-ranked UMass-Lowell (2-1) and Vermont
(5-2) by stopping 57 of 60 shots for a .950 save percentage and
1.50 goals-against-average; two of the three goals were scored on
the opposition’s power play. In the one-goal victory vs. the
RiverHawks, Brian turned aside 29 of 30 shots. He recorded 28 saves
at 19th-ranked Vermont. Brian was honored as Hockey East
co-Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Men’s ice
hockey – Brian Foster, Hockey East co-Defensive Player
of the Week
LAST WEEK’S
RESULTS
Thursday, Dec. 3
Women’s
basketball: at Seton Hall 54, UNH 45
Friday,
Dec. 4
Men’s ice
hockey: at UNH 2, #8 UMass-Lowell 1
Men’s
basketball: at Pittsburgh 47, UNH 32
Women’s
indoor track & field at Rhody Pentathlon
Saturday, Dec. 5
Women’s ice
hockey: Providence 4, at #3 UNH 1
Women’s
basketball: at St. Peter’s 66, UNH 47
Football: at #2
Villanova 46, #10 UNH 7 (FCS quarterfinal game)
Men’s indoor
track & field at Jay Carisella Carnival (non-scoring meet at
Northeastern)
Women’s
indoor track & field at Jay Carisella Carnival (non-scoring
meet at N’eastern)
Sunday,
Dec. 6
Women’s swim
& dive: at UNH 152, Vermont 148
Men’s ice
hockey: UNH 5, at #19 Vermont 2
THIS WEEK’S
EVENTS
Tuesday, Dec. 8
Women’s ice
hockey at Boston College, 7 pm
Wednesday, Dec. 9
Men’s
basketball vs. Central Connecticut State, 7 pm
Thursday, Dec. 10
Women’s
basketball vs. Central Connecticut State, 7 pm
Friday,
Dec. 11
Men’s ice
hockey at Providence, 7 pm
Saturday, Dec. 12
Gymnastics
“Meet the Team” intrasquad scrimmage, 1 pm
Women’s ice
hockey at Dartmouth, 7 pm
MEN’S BASKETBALL (2-3,
0-0 America East)
- UNH lost a
defensive battle on the road against Big East foe Pittsburgh,
47-32, last Friday. The Wildcats held Pitt to its lowest scoring
output since March 2007.
- Freshman
Ferg Myrick (Philadelphia) led the Wildcats with a
career-high 11 points in playing a career-high 18 minutes off the
bench. He made 5 of 8 field goal attempts.
- The 22 combined
points between UNH and Pitt (Pitt led 15-7) were the fewest in a
first half of a Div. I game in the shot clock era (since 1985).
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (3-4,
0-0 America East)
- UNH lost a pair
of games in New Jersey against Seton Hall (78-65) and St.
Peter’s (68-54).
- Denise
Beliveau (Framingham,
Mass.) averaged 11.0 points per game, 7.0 rebounds per game and 4.0
steals per game in addition to shooting 47.0% from the floor. She
tied her personal best of five steals vs. Seton Hall.
- Jill
McDonald (Middlebury,
Vt.) tied her career high of 17 points at Seton Hall.
FOOTBALL (10-3, 6-2
CAA)
- Tenth-ranked UNH
was ousted from the NCAA Division I FCS playoffs with a loss at
second-ranked Villanova in the quarterfinals. This marked the
fourth time in the last six years that UNH reached double digits in
victories.
MEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (7-6-3, 7-2-2 Hockey East)
- UNH extended its
unbeaten streak to six games (5-0-1) with victories against
nationally-ranked UMass-Lowell (2-1) and Vermont (5-2) to remain
atop the Hockey East standings.
- The Dec. 4
victory against eighth-ranked UMass-Lowell was the 450th
for head coach Dick Umile.
- Brian
Foster (Pembroke, N.H.)
stopped 57 of 60 shots in the wins vs. UMass-Lowell and UVM for a
1.50 GAA and .950 save percentage. He turned aside 29 shots in the
2-1 win vs. the RiverHawks and stopped 28 shots against the
Catamounts.
- Stevie
Moses (Leominster,
Mass.) led six Wildcats who recorded multiple points last weekend
with three points, all on assists.
WOMEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (10-2-4, 5-1-1-0 Hockey
East)
- Senior forward
Micaela Long (South Boston, Mass.) recorded her
100th career point with her seventh goal of the season
– 42nd of her career – at home Dec. 5 vs.
Providence College. She is the 42nd member of
UNH’s Century Club (100 career points). Long has three goals
and 11 assists in her nine-game point-scoring streak.
- UNH lost a
league home game for the first time since Hockey East’s
inception in the ’03 season with a 4-1 loss at the Whittemore
Center on Dec. 5. UNH went 65-0-10 in the regular season, as well
as 4-0 in the postseason, at home vs. Hockey East teams.
- The loss also
ended UNH’s overall 17-game regular-season unbeaten streak
vs. Hockey East teams (16-0-1) as well as the Wildcats’
34-game regular-season unbeaten streak at home (28-0-6).
MEN’S INDOOR TRACK &
FIELD
- UNH opened the
2009-10 season at the Jay Carisela Invitational, which was a
non-scoring meet at Northeastern University on Dec. 5. The Wildcats
recorded a total of 14 top-5 finishes.
- Senior
Jeff Kaste (Atkinson, N.H.) and sophomore
Bill Godfrey (Merrimack, N.H.) both won an individual
event with Kaste recording the top effort in the weight throw (60
feet-0.50 inches) and Godfrey capturing first place in the
1,000-meter run (2 minutes, 32.76 seconds). Kaste also placed fifth
in the shot put, an event in which Brice
Paey (Milton, N.H.) took
third place at 55-3.
- Senior
Anthony Vorachak (Lebanon, N.H.) had a pair of top-5 finishes
with second place in the triple jump (44-8.25) and fifth in the
long jump (22-3.75). Classmate Frank Radlof
(Milford, N.H.) edged
teammate Cory Varrell (Portsmouth, N.H.) for fifth place in the
long jump with a mark of 21-11.75.
WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK
& FIELD
- UNH opened the
2009-10 season at the Jay Carisela Invitational, which was a
non-scoring meet at Northeastern University on Dec. 5. The Wildcats
turned in a total of eight top-10 performances at the meet.
- Senior
Ashlee Lathrop (Sherburne, N.Y.) led three Wildcats in the
top 10 of the weight throw. She placed second in the event with a
mark of 53 feet-11.75 inches. Freshman Rosemary
Read (West Greenwich,
R.I.) and senior Kate Ouhrabka (East Greenwich, R.I.) placed eighth and
ninth, respectively.
- UNH also had
three top-10 efforts in the long jump, where junior Camille
Quarles (Derry, N.H.)
finished in fourth place at 17-2.75. Freshman
Melanie Frazier (Bridgewater, Mass.) and sophomore
Eliza Mackintosh (Hanover, N.H.) placed sixth and seventh,
respectively.
- A pair of
Wildcats began competition one day earlier at the URI Pentathlon.
Senior Kelly Thomas (Chichester, N.H.) and junior
Kaitlyn Dugan (Hatfield, Pa.) finished third and fourth,
respectively. Thomas recorded the fastest time (2 minutes, 25.52
seconds) in the 800-meter run and recorded 750 points. Dugan ran
the second-fastest time in the 800m (2:29.79) to earn 696
points.
SWIMMING & DIVING
(5-0)
- UNH rallied for
a 152-148 victory against the University of Vermont in a conference
meet at Swasey Pool. The Wildcats won the first event of the meet
– the 200-yard medley relay – and did not lead again
until the last event, the 400 freestyle relay, when they overcame a
five-point deficit by outscoring UVM 13-4 (with first- and
third-place finishes to the visitor’s second place).
- Shelli
Reed (Hollister,
Calif.) recorded three first-place finishes and a second-place
finish in that meet. She won the 100-yard butterfly with a
personal-best time of 58.29 seconds and was first to touch the wall
in the 100 freestyle. Reed swam the secon leg for the winning 400
freestyle relay team that came within .2-of-a-second of the Swasey
Pool record and helped the ‘Cats surge to victory in the
final event. She also took second place in the 50 free.
- Ellen
Pelletier (West
Hartford, Conn.) captured first place in the 1-meter dive to help
spark UNH’s comeback in the late events. Earlier in the meet,
Pelletier finished as runner-up in the 3-m dive.
