Team of the Week

Miesha Bacon, NJCU
Courtesy of NJCU Athletics

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Men Pos. Women
Justice Mercadel, So.
Austin
G Tara Szawaluk, Fr.
Muhlenberg
Aston Francis, Sr.
Wheaton (Ill.)
G Shannon McGuire, So.
Cortland
Brian Cameron, Jr.
Wesley
G Lindsay Gauldin, Fr.
Guilford
Kent Hanson, Jr.
Carleton
F Kayla Kline, Jr.
Lycoming
Timothy Wendel, Jr..
Crown
F Miesha Bacon, Sr.
NJCU
Games of Dec. 10-16, 2018

Women's

Tara Szawaluk

Szawaluk, making her first career start, scored 23 points in the Mules' 57-53 win against Moravian. She scored 12 straight Muhlenberg points in the final 5:26 of the fourth quarter, turning a 46-43 deficit into a 55-53 lead. Her winning basket came with 13.1 seconds left. Szawaluk was 9-for-11 from the field and also had 4 assists and 5 rebounds.

Shannon McGuire
McGuire hit the game-tying 3-pointer with two tenths of a second left in regulation and made the game-winning reverse layup with six seconds left in overtime in Cortland's 64-63 win at SUNY Poly Saturday. She finished with 17 points, six rebounds and a career-high five assists.

Lindsay Gauldin
Gauldin helped the Quakers to a 1-1 week with 17 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, and 3 steals per game.  She made all six of her field goals, including two threes, and grabbed a game-high 11 boards in the Quakers' fifth straight win, a 73-60 decision over Meredith. Gauldin also totaled 19 points and 13 rebounds, both game highs, in Guilford's 47-42 road setback to 8-1 Oglethorpe.

Kayla Kline
Kline banked in a game-winning 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds left in a 66-65 win over Widener; she finished the game with 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting, while also adding nine rebounds, five assists and a steal. Kline began the week with 18 points on 5-of-9 shooting in a setback to No. 8 Messiah, adding six rebounds and two steals. She finished the week averaging 17 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals, while shooting 12-of-19 from the field and 9-of-10 from the charity stripe.

Miesha Bacon
Bacon averaged 23 points, 15 rebounds, 3 steals, and 3 assists per game. She had 23 points, including the go-ahead bucket, in a 73-70 win over Saint Elizabeth, snapping a 42-game losing streak for NJCU.  Bacon has never previously scored more than 15 points in a game in her career. She followed one career night with another, adding 22 points and 15 rebounds in a narrow conference loss to TCNJ.

 

Men's

Justice Mercadel
Mercadel had an outstanding week for Austin College, averaging 25 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, and 2 steals-per-game while shooting 65% from the field and 88% from the free throw line. Mercadel led the Roos to a 2-0 week as he scored 26 against Paul Quinn and followed that up with 23 in a win over Hendrix. He flirted with a triple double against PQC, adding nine rebounds and seven assists in that victory.

Aston Francis
Francis set a new Wheaton College single-game scoring record with 54 points last Tuesday in a 99-77 victory at UW-Platteville (breaking a record that had stood since 1954); his 54 points is the most scored in Division III in a single game this season and is tied for the most in a game at any NCAA level this year. He shot 16-of-27 against the Pioneers, making seven three pointers. Francis added four steals and two assists in the victory at Platteville, while contributing 20 points and eight rebounds last Saturday in a 69-59 loss to North Central.

Brian Cameron
Cameron averaged 32 points per game and pulled down 12 rebounds on the week. He shot 62% (23-37) from the field and 7-of-15 from three. Cameron matched his career-best scoring effort with 34 points in a 117-105 win over Pfeiffer on Friday; he added 29 points on 10-19 shooting against Birmingham-Southern earlier in the week.

Kent Hanson
Hanson scored at least 24 in all three games last week as he nearly averaged a double-double (27 ppg / 9 rpg). He began the week by shooting 73% overall en route to a career-best 32-point effort in a road win over UW-Eau Claire. He wrapped up the week with 26 points and 11 rebounds at Bethel, notching his third double-double of the season. In between was a 24-point, 8-rebound game against UW-River Falls.

Timothy Wendel
Wendel averaged 31 points per game, 11 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals in two big UMAC wins over Northwestern and North Central. Wendel tied the Crown NCAA-record with 40 points against Northwestern as he leads the only remaining undefeated team in the UMAC.