
GNAC Weekly Honors for December 8, 2008
BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Mens Basketball
Jose Guitian (Senior) - Lasell - Miami, FL
Guitian scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in Lasell's
opening GNAC contest in a 68-57 win over Rivier College. He
also had 28 points and 5 rebounds against no. 10 Amherst
College.
Women's Basketball
Blair Carpenter (Junior) - Rivier - Meredith, NH
Blair had a solid statistical week capped off by a program-record and career-high 38 points(13-28 46% from the floor) on Sunday. The junior is just 2 points shy of reaching the 1,000 point plateau. In addition, the shooting guard averaged 8 rebounds and 2 steals per game. Carpenter shot 87.5% from the charity stripe (14-16) for the week.
BASKETBALL ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Men's Basketball
Johrone Bunch (Freshmen) - Mount Ida - Meriden, CT
Freshman Johrone Bunch (Meriden, CT/F.T. Maloney) had a solid overall week leading his squad to a 2-1 record. He also tallied his first double-double as a Mustangs against Fisher College this past Friday night.
Women's Basketball
Rachel Kaye (Freshemen) - Emerson - Wakefield, MA
In her first career start scored 20 points on 50% shooting from the field and from behing the three-point arc, and a perfect 4-4 from the free throw liine, while also dishing out a half dozen assists in Emerson's non-conference victory over UMass Boston in the Lions' only game of the week.
WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Swimmer of the Week
Keri-Ann Arsenault (Senior) - Simmons - Chester, NH
Keri-Ann scored 26 points at the GNAC championship, the
individual high point scorer for the meet. She finished 2nd in the
200 Free, 1st in the 1650 free with a new Simmons College
Pool record & GNAC Championship record (by 30 seconds), 1st in
the 500 free, 1st in the 400 IM, and was a member of the winning
800 Freestyle Relay and the third place 200 Free Relay.
Rookie of the Week
Hannah Gajewski (Freshmen) - Saint Joseph's (ME) - Biddeford,
ME
Gajewski helped St. Joe's to a runner-up finish in the 2008 GNAC
Championships with first place finishes, and new school record
times, in the 200-free (2:05.95) and 100-IM (1:07.02) events. She
also was a member of the 400-free relay team and posted two second
place finishes (1650-free, 19:56.12; 500-free, 5:44.44) at the
meet.




























