NESCAC Player of the Week
Laura Mendell – Amherst – Jr. – G – Westport, Mass.
Mendell averaged 20.5 points per game while shooting 61.9 percent from the floor and was 6-for-11 (55.6%) from long range in a 2-0 week for the Mammoths. In a 66-59 win over Tufts, the junior scored 22 points, going 6-for-10 from the field, including 3-for-5 from 3-point range. Mendell added two steals, two rebounds, an assist, and a block in the win. In a 66-43 win over Conn. College, the guard scored a team-high 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the floor while adding five rebounds, four assists, and a steal.

NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Bates – Alexandra Long (Newtown, Pa.) led Bates to a sweep of Trinity and Wesleyan on the road to run the Bobcats’ NESCAC winning streak to four games. The senior averaged 12.5 points and 5.0 assists per game while shooting 59 percent from the floor. Long started the weekend with 10 points and a game-high six assists in a 63-46 win over Trinity. The guard was part of a Bates defense that held the Bantams to 23 percent shooting, their lowest shooting percentage in a game since the 2017-18 season. Long followed up with a game-highs of 15 points and four assists and added three steals in a 64-50 win over Wesleyan. Long leads the NESCAC with 3.9 assists per game and ranks first in the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.1.
 
Bowdoin – Sydney Jones (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) led Bowdoin to a 2-0 NESCAC weekend as the Polar Bears clinched the top seed for the conference tournament for the second straight season. On Friday, Jones scored 13 points, with five rebounds, four assists, and three steals while spearheading a defensive effort that held Middlebury, the NESCAC's highest-scoring team entering the game, to just 38 points. On Saturday against Williams, Jones scored 13 of her game-high 22 points in the first quarter as the Polar Bears never looked back in a 24-point win. The senior added seven rebounds and two assists in the victory and finished the weekend shooting 51 percent from the field and 40 percent from 3-point range. 
 
Colby – Ana Von Rumohr (Lexington, Mass.) led the Mules to an overtime win over Middlebury on Saturday.  The sophomore played 44 of the 45 minutes, scored 19 points, and grabbed six rebounds to go with three assists and a block.
 
Conn. College –  Santiago Dedós (Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico) was a spark plug off the bench last week for the Camels, averaging a team-high 10.0 points in only 14.5 minutes per game. Dedós netted eight points and grabbed two rebounds in 13 minutes of action at Hamilton, and she followed with 12 points and two caroms in 16 minutes at Amherst. The rookie shot 4-for-9 from 3-point range for the week and also recorded her first career block. 
 
Hamilton – Taylor Lambo (Watertown, Mass.) averaged 14.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 3.5 assists in two wins. Lambo went 8-for-10 at the free-throw line and finished with 16 points, 12 boards, and three assists in an 81-69 victory against Connecticut College. The junior reached the 1,000-point career milestone and recorded a double-double for the 12th time this season. Lambo posted 13 points, five rebounds, and a game-high four assists and was 5-of-6 from the field in a 72-54 triumph against Tufts. 
 
Middlebury – With four blocks over the weekend, Augusta Dixon (Charleston, S.C.) became Middlebury’s all-time leader in blocks with 117 for her career. The senior also moved into a tie for second place on the program’s career rebounding list, pulling down 10 last weekend for 802 total. Dixon is second in the NESCAC in both blocked shots (1.8 pg) and rebounds (10.5 pg).
 
Trinity – Sophomore Olivia Vick (Chicago, Ill.) led the Bantams with a team-high 13 points in a 63-46 loss to Bates.
 
Wesleyan –  Tori DaCosta (Bronx, N.Y.) posted back-to-back double-doubles in two games last week, averaging 15.5 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. The senior opened the with 21 points, 10 rebounds, three assists, and two blocks against Westfield State before totaling 10 points and 10 rebounds against Bates. 
 
Williams – Arianna Gerig (Westport, Conn.) averaged 16.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 2.0 blocks, and 1.5 steals as the Ephs went 1-1 in NESCAC play last weekend. Gerig led all student-athletes with 20 points and 13 rebounds in a 58-46 win at Colby on Friday. Gerig finished with 13 points, six assists, four rebounds, three blocks, and two steals while shooting 4-of-8 from the field at No. 4-ranked Bowdoin on Saturday.