Williams thriving for East Stroudsburg men’s hoops team
Josh Williams (Notre Dame) had a career best 22 points and a career high 17 rebounds as the East Stroudsburg men’s basketball team scored a 105-85 win over Felician.
Williams’ career game earned him the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Athlete of the Week honor.
He was the first East Stroudsburg player to have 20+ points and 15+ rebounds in a game since February 2017.
Williams is from Trenton and played his freshman season at Rider.
Towlen and Harkins Named All-MAC Freedom
Wilkes University women’s soccer players Nicolette Towlen (Ewing) and Niamh Harkins (Hopewell Valley) were named to the Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Division first team.
Towlen led the team in scoring with seven goals and three assists. The former Blue Devil had a pair of game winning goals this season.
Harkins anchored the Wilkes defense that allowed just 20 goals on the season. Wilkes was 9-6-2 heading into the playoffs.
LaCava and Roberts Get MAC All-Freedom Honors
Manhatanville’s Cody LaCava (New Egypt) was named the Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Division Rookie of the Year in men’s soccer.
His teammate freshman Charles Roberts (Pemberton) received All-Freedom Honorable Mention.
LaCava started 13 games and accounted for four goals and four assists, including a pair of game winners.
Roberts posted seven shutouts in the goal and had an impressive 0.94 goals against average.
Johnson Named NJAC Rookie of the Week
Ayanna Johnson (Pennington) was the New Jersey Athletic Conference women’s basketball Rookie of the Week after averaging 20.5 points and grabbing 14 rebounds in a pair of games for Rowan.
Johnson had a great first NJAC game as she poured in 31 points and grabbed a Division III high 24 rebounds in a win over Rutgers-Camden.
The 24 caroms are the most in D3 this season.
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Locals who played in the NCAA Division III Field Hockey Tournament >> Marguerite Salamone (Pennsbury) is playing for Tufts. …Yael Yonah (WW-P South) is playing for Montclair State. …Kelly Coyle (Peddie) is playing for Middlebury. …Grace Hillman (Lawrenceville) is playing for Johns Hopkins. …Kat Horsley (Pennington), Ellie Paige (Pennington), Sydney Wieczkowski (Bordentown) and Phoebe Wood (Peddie) all are playing for Franklin & Marshall. …Alex Pritchard (Allentown) is playing for Rochester. Field Hockey >> Mallory Rickenhauser (Rancocas Valley) received All-NJAC Honorable Mention from William Paterson. … Courtney Allen (Robbinsville) started every game for Muhlenberg and had three goals and two assists. …Gabby Arata (Pennington) helped American reach the finals of the Patriot League. Football and contributed that quarterfinals. Frank advanced >> Lucchesi to Olivier Muhlenberg to the the Muhlenberg (Steinert) Payen NCAA will Division (Lawrence) each meet defense III 13-time 1 Mount national Union. …Rick champion Mottram and (Allentown) No. was named to the Academic All-Patriot League team. Men’s Basketball: Terrence Bowman (Ewing) was in the starting lineup as Keystone fell to Brooklyn College. … Freshman Anthony Burr (New Egypt) had a career high 20 points as Bryn Athan defeated Immaculata in overtime. …Chris LaBelle (Trenton Catholic Academy) had 15 points and seven assists and Larry Joseph (Ewing) had nine points and 10 rebounds in Centenary’s loss to Wesley. Men’s Soccer >> Nick Sample (New Egypt) was an All-NJAC first team selection from The College of New Jersey, Trenton Hall (Rancocas Valley) was a second team selection from RutgersCamden and Will Sjaastad (Allentown) was also a second team selection from Rowan and Kevin Primich (Allentown) from Rowan received Honorable Mention. …Jake Webb (Conwell-Egan) was named All-MAC Commonwealth Conference First team from Lycoming. …Reiss Berger (Peddie) and Nick John (Lawrenceville) were on defense as Haverford defeated Franklin & Marshall for the Centennial Conference title.