ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Basketball and volleyball players share athlete of the week accolades at Niagara College.
Holy Cross graduate Tianna Stys recorded career highs in points, with 16, and rebounds, 13, helping the Knights to a 69-39 homecourt victory over Lambton in women’s basketball.
“Tia worked really hard during the off-season, and that hard work is really playing off,” head coach Mike Beccaria said in praising the play of the 6-foot St. Catharines native.
Stys, who is enrolled in the educational assistant program, is averaging 7.6 points and 6.2 rebounds per game while making 45.2 per cent of her shots.
Cayuga’s Ben Fillmore earned male athlete honours for the week ending Monday by recording 46 assists, the best of his four-year post-secondary career, in a 3-2 victory over Conestoga in volleyball.
Fillmore, showing no signs of an injury that sidelined him early in the season, was an offensive catalyst from the setter position as Niagara came back from an 0-2 deficit by sweeping the next three sets.