O’Brien Named Athlete of the Week
March 09, 2015 12:06 PM | General
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O’Brien helped the Mountaineers to a three-game series sweep at ETSU, batting 7-for-10 (.700) with six runs, three doubles, five RBIs and three walks. O’Brien led the Big 12 for the week in batting average, on-base percentage, doubles and was ranked fourth in runs scored.
WVU Athletes of the Week
Winter 2015
Winter 2015
Week 1: Zeke Moisey, Wrestling
Week 2: Andrew Marsh, Swimming
Week 3: Carolina Lewis, Tennis
Week 4: Alexa Goldberg, Gymnastics
Week 5: Melissa Idell, Gymnastics
Week 6: Garrett Spurgeon, Rifle
Week 7: Cory Stainbrook, Wrestling
Week 8: Habiba Shaker, Tennis
Week 9: Garrett Spurgeon, Rifle
Week 10: Cam O’Brien, Baseball
Week 2: Andrew Marsh, Swimming
Week 3: Carolina Lewis, Tennis
Week 4: Alexa Goldberg, Gymnastics
Week 5: Melissa Idell, Gymnastics
Week 6: Garrett Spurgeon, Rifle
Week 7: Cory Stainbrook, Wrestling
Week 8: Habiba Shaker, Tennis
Week 9: Garrett Spurgeon, Rifle
Week 10: Cam O’Brien, Baseball
This Week in Track and Field: West Virginia is idle this week and will wait the UNF Spring Break Invitational from March 27-28 to kick off its 2015 outdoor season.
Last Week in Track and Field: The Mountaineers did not compete last week as the indoor season has completed.
Notes & Quotes: WVU competed at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in its most recent competition ... Brianna Kerekes and Amy Cashin each earned spots on the podium in the 1,000-meter finals ... Kerekes raced to a fifth-place finish in the conference in 2:49.99, while Cashin placed eighth in 2:50.99 ... Kelly Williams crossed the line in seventh place overall in 4:51.12 in the one mile ... freshman Shamoya McNeil earned a spot on the podium in the triple jump ... McNeil jumped 12.06 meters to place eighth in the league.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: WVU is idle this week before postseason play next week.
Last Week in Women’s Basketball: West Virginia (18-14, 7-11 Big 12) went 1-2 on the week .. the Mountaineers closed out Big 12 regular-season action with a 59-55 loss at Kansas State ... as the No. 7-seed in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship, WVU knocked off No. 10-seed Texas Tech 59-40 in the first round before falling 67-55 to No. 2-seed Oklahoma in the quarterfinals.
Notes and Quotes: WVU tied for seventh in the Big 12 regular-season … the Mountaineers reached the quarterfinals for the 11th time in the past 12 years … WVU has reached the quarterfinals for consecutive years … junior guard Bria Holmes garnered unanimous All-Big 12 honors for the second consecutive season … she joins Liz Repella (2010-11) and Rosemary Kosiorek (1990-92) as one of three Mountaineers to garner back-to-back first team all-conference accolades … senior Averee Fields earned All-Big 12 Honorable Mention … Fields was one of seven WVU student-athletes to earn the Big 12’s Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award … the Mountaineers’ 210 blocks broke a program single-season record of 205 set by the 1984 team … Lanay Montgomery’s 107 blocks are the fourth-most in a single-season … she joins Georgeann Wells as the only two Mountaineers to reach 100 or more blocks in a single season … Bria Holmes’ 19.2 points per game are second in the Big 12.
Quote from Coach Carey: “I told them in there, you know what, hopefully we do make the NCAA. If we don’t, we make the NIT. Either one, I expect us to go in and play hard and try to win some games. We’re going to try to get better no matter what tournament we’re in. If we don’t get in the NCAA, we have no one to blame but ourselves.”
This Week in Tennis: The Mountaineers (9-3) return to competition on Friday, March 13, as they open Big 12 Conference play against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa ... the match is set to begin at 1 p.m. ET … WVU and Iowa State have played just three matches in its program histories, as the Cyclones hold a 3-0 all-time series advantage … West Virginia concluded its 2014 regular season with a 5-2 loss against ISU on April 13 … the Cyclones are 4-7 this season, and are coming off a 4-0 victory against UMKC … sophomore Samantha Budai has tallied five wins at the No. 1 position, and senior Meghan Cassens has won a team-high seven singles matches … senior Ksenia Pronina has teamed up with Budai to go 5-4 at the No. 1 doubles slot.
Last Week in Tennis: WVU fell to Cornell, 4-3, on March 7 and to No. 70 Marshall, 5-2, on March 8 at Ridgeview Racquet Club.
Notes and Quotes: Freshman Habiba Shaker has a team-best 11-0 mark in doubles play as she has teamed up with junior Hailey Barrett as well as classmates Lyn Yuen Choo, Yvon Martinez and Carolina Lewis throughout the spring … Shaker holds a 7-1 mark at the No. 4 position and a 3-1 mark at the No. 5 position in singles play … sophomore Kaja Mrgole has tallied eight wins at the No. 1 slot, and has won seven of her last eight singles matches … freshman Carolina Lewis has a perfect 9-0 mark in singles action, with victories at the No. 5 and No. 6 slots.
Coach Miha Lisac: “Overall, it was a good weekend. We had a good start against Cornell. We were doing the right things early, but we need to be consistent. It will continue to be a learning experience.”
This Week in Swimming and Diving: The Mountaineer men’s and women’s diving teams compete at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships in Buffalo, New York, from March 9-11 ... the men’s swimming team will await for the NCAA qualificaiton announcement on Wednesday, March 11.
Last Week in Swimming and Diving: Both teams were idle last week.
Notes & Quotes: A total of 16 West Virginia student-athletes earned All-Big 12 First Team recognition with nine men and seven women garnering the honors ... the Mountaineers competed at the Big 12 Championships in their most recent competition with the men placing third and the women placing fourth ... senior Tim Squires led the men with five All-Big 12 First Team distinctions (50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 400-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard medley relay) ... the fourth-place finish for the women was their best since a second-place finish at the 2013 Big 12 Championships ... Julie Ogden (200-yard butterfly, 100-yard butterfly) and Jenelle Zee (100-yard backstroke, 200-yard medley relay) led the Mountaineer women for two All-Big 12 First Team accolades apiece.
This Week in Rowing: West Virginia opens its 2015 spring slate at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from March 14-15, for the third consecutive year … the regatta is hosted by Louisville, as the event pulls in approximately 330 collegiate competitors throughout the two days of competition … last season, the Mountaineers participated in 18 races at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational, as the team crewed to three second-place finishes in the Varsity 8+ and Varsity 4+ events on March 15-16.
Last Week in Rowing: WVU was idle last week.
Notes & Quotes: WVU has not competed since the completion of its fall season with a scrimmage against Duquesne, on November 7 … WVU raced in two regattas throughout the 2014 fall season, and hosted a scrimmage for the novice squad against Duquesne … at the Head of the Ohio, the Mountaineers posted three Top-10 finishes in the Women’s Open 8+ event, earning a silver medal on Saturday, Oct. 4 … WVU’s first boat earned a second-place finished out of 17 teams with a time of 15:28.68 … at the Head of the Occoquan, the novice squad posted two top-five finishes in the Women’s Collegiate Novice 4+ event, earning a silver and bronze medal on Saturday, Nov. 1.
Coach Jimmy King: “There are quite a few unknowns as the racing season approaches, but they’re largely interesting and somewhat exciting unknowns reflecting the youth of our team. Finding the right boats and line-up combinations may take longer than usual, but that also means there will be plenty of opportunities to be seized by both younger and older members of the team.”
This Week in Rifle: WVU rifle was idle last week ... the Mountaineers most recently won their conference-best sixth Great American Rifle Conference (GARC) title with a 4709 team score, February 28-March 1, at Mississippi’s Patricia C. Lamar Readiness Center in Oxford, Mississippi.
Last Week in Rifle: The No.1-ranked and back-to-back national champion West Virginia University rifle team (11-1, 8-0 GARC) will compete for their nation-best 17th title at the NCAA Championships, March 13-14, at the E.F. Horton Rifle Range and Patty Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Notes & Quotes: Eight members of the team collected a combined 28 all-conference honors at the GARC Championships Banquet, in Oxford, Mississippi … senior Ziva Dvorsak earned her first GARC honors, collecting Senior of the Year and Shooter of the Year… she also landed on the All-GARC First Team Air Rifle, Second Team Smallbore and All-GARC First Team Combined Score squads … freshman Elizabeth Gratz earned her first conference honors, taking the GARC Rookie of the Year award and first team Smallbore, first team Air Rifle and first team combined score honors, along with being named WVU’s GARC Scholar-Athlete of the Year… senior Maren Prediger earned All-GARC First Team Air Rifle, All-GARC Second Team Combined Score and the All-GARC Honorable Mention Smallbore Team … junior Michael Bamsey landed his first conference awards with All-GARC First Team Smallbore, Air Rifle and Combined Score awards … junior Garrett Spurgeon earned All-GARC First Team Smallbore and Combined Score honors and also made the All-GARC Second Team Air Rifle list … senior Thomas Kyanko was named All-GARC First Team Smallbore, All-GARC Second Team Combined Score and all-conference honorable mention in air rifle … junior Patrick Sunderman and sophomore Jean-Pierre Lucas were named to the All-GARC Second Team Smallbore and Combined Score lists … Lucas also earned all-conference honorable mention in air rifle, while Sunderman earned his first All-GARC First Team Air Rifle honor.
This Week in Wrestling: West Virginia will find out its NCAA qualifiers on Wednesday.
Last Week in Wrestling: The Mountaineers took fourth place at the Big 12 Championship with 35 points ... Zeke Moisey (125), Roman Perryman (149), Jake A. Smith (197) and A.J. Vizcarrondo (HWT) all claimed runner-up finishes, while Bubba Scheffel (184) took fourth.
Notes and Quotes: Saturday marked WVU’s best-ever showing at the Big 12 Championships, with their 35 points topping their previous tallies of 26 points (2014) and 28 points (2012) ... the squad also sent multiple wrestlers in the finals for the first time ever, with A.J. Vizcarrondo become the school’s first-ever two-time Big 12 finalist.
Coach Jon Hammond: “It’s been an incredible run. We really like coming down here to shoot. It’s something the team enjoys doing. It’s great competition, but we always show up. At the same time, we have to stay focused on NCAAs
This Week in Gymnastics: The Mountaineers close out their regular season against Penn and Cornell on Saturday, March 14, at 4 p.m., at the WVU Coliseum … it’s WVU gymnastics alumni weekend, and also senior night.
Last Week in Gymnastics: WVU (11-8-1, 0-0-1) scored a season-high 195.9 in a loss to No. 11 Penn State (196.75) at the WVU Coliseum on March 8 … WVU tallied a season-high 49.225 on bars, the seventh-best score in program history, and 48.9 on balance beam … the team also tallied 49.1 on floor and 48.675 on vault … sophomore Alexa Goldberg scored a career-high 9.95 on bars and tied for the event win … senior Dayah Haley tallied 9.925 on floor and finished second, while senior Beth Deal and sophomore Brooklyn Doggette paced on beam and finished fourth with 9.825s … junior Jaida Lawrence scored a team-high 9.775 on vault and finished in fourth place.
Notes and Quotes: WVU competed in front of 2,178 fans, the 10th-largest crowd in program history … the team’s bars score was its top mark since earning the same score against Bowling Green at the Coliseum on March 13, 2004 … four career-best scores were earned on bars, including Goldberg’s winning mark … freshman Zaakira Muhammad finished tied for third with a 9.9, while junior Lindsey Litten matched her career-high 9.8 and finished in seventh place, and Doggette tallied 9.8 … Doggette’s beam mark also was a career high … with the loss, WVU drops to 6-38 all-time against PSU.
This Week in Baseball
The WVU baseball team will open Big 12 play this week, but not before traveling to play Liberty on Tuesday, March 10 at 3 p.m. … the Mountaineers will then travel to take on Texas from March 13-15 … Friday’s game is set for 7 p.m., Saturday’s game begins at 6 p.m. and Sunday’s finale starts at 1:30 p.m.
The WVU baseball team will open Big 12 play this week, but not before traveling to play Liberty on Tuesday, March 10 at 3 p.m. … the Mountaineers will then travel to take on Texas from March 13-15 … Friday’s game is set for 7 p.m., Saturday’s game begins at 6 p.m. and Sunday’s finale starts at 1:30 p.m.
Last Week In Baseball
The Mountaineers went 3-0 last weekend, sweeping ETSU on the road … West Virginia won 7-6 in 10 innings on Friday, won 18-2 on Saturday and completed the sweep with a 13-4 win on Sunday.
The Mountaineers went 3-0 last weekend, sweeping ETSU on the road … West Virginia won 7-6 in 10 innings on Friday, won 18-2 on Saturday and completed the sweep with a 13-4 win on Sunday.
Notes & Quotes
The sweep included impressive numbers both at the plate and on the mound … offensively, WVU batted .377, combining for 38 runs, 49 hits, 21 extra-base hits, eight home runs and 34 RBIs … the pitching staff allowed 10 earned runs in 28.0 innings, striking out 26 batters … senior catcher Cam O’Brien impressed in his first weekend of action, batting 7-for-10 (.700) with six runs, three doubles and five RBIs … sophomore first baseman Jackson Cramer went 4-for-8 (.500) with five runs, one double, one home run and two RBIs … sophomore right fielder Shaun Wood had one double, one home run and led the team with six RBIs for the weekend … junior left-hander Ross Vance picked up the win on Saturday, allowing one hit in five shutout innings with seven strikeouts and one walk … sophomore right-hander Chad Donato won on Sunday, giving up one run on seven hits with five strikeouts in seven innings.
The sweep included impressive numbers both at the plate and on the mound … offensively, WVU batted .377, combining for 38 runs, 49 hits, 21 extra-base hits, eight home runs and 34 RBIs … the pitching staff allowed 10 earned runs in 28.0 innings, striking out 26 batters … senior catcher Cam O’Brien impressed in his first weekend of action, batting 7-for-10 (.700) with six runs, three doubles and five RBIs … sophomore first baseman Jackson Cramer went 4-for-8 (.500) with five runs, one double, one home run and two RBIs … sophomore right fielder Shaun Wood had one double, one home run and led the team with six RBIs for the weekend … junior left-hander Ross Vance picked up the win on Saturday, allowing one hit in five shutout innings with seven strikeouts and one walk … sophomore right-hander Chad Donato won on Sunday, giving up one run on seven hits with five strikeouts in seven innings.
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