Thursday, February 3, 2005

MORAVIAN’S STEPHANIE SEAMAN NAMED TO D3HOOPS.COM TEAM OF THE WEEK

STERLING, VA --- Junior forward Stephanie Seaman (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem Catholic HS) of the Moravian College women’s basketball team has been named the D3hoops.com Team of the Week for her performance last week. The complete team can be found at http://d3hoops.com/tow/.

Seaman led the Greyhounds to a 3-0 week including a pair of victories in Commonwealth Conference action. Moravian has now won ten straight games, its longest winning streak since a 15-game streak during the 1992-93 campaign, and the Greyhounds went 9-0 in January wining by an average of 21.6 points per game.

Seaman began the week with 19 points, nine rebounds and five assists in Moravian’s 100-86 come-from-behind victory over rival Muhlenberg College. It was the first time Moravian had scored 100 points in a game in nearly a decade (2/23/95), and the Greyhounds’ rallied from a nine-point halftime deficit despite committing 22 turnovers in the second half. Seaman then scored a career high 27 points and added 12 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the season in a 75-67 victory over Elizabethtown College. Seaman also had four assists and two steals in the victory. Seaman capped the week with 18 points, four rebounds and two assists in a 75-63 victory over Susquehanna University.

Seaman, who was named the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week for the second time this season on Monday and the ECAC Southern Division III Player of the Week on Tuesday, averaged 21.3 points and 8.3 rebounds per game last week with 11 assists, four steals and just six turnovers in 98 minutes (32.7 minutes per game). She made 20 of 38 field goals (52.6 percent) and 24 of 26 free throws (92.3 percent).

Moravian, 16-3 overall and 7-1 in the Commonwealth Conference, will return to action on Saturday, February 5th in a Commonwealth Conference game versus Juniata College tipping off at 4:00 p.m. in Johnston Hall in Bethlehem.