Robin Perkins & Aryn McClure Take Home Women's Basketball Weekly Awards
MAAC Sports
Player of the Week
Robin Perkins, Rider
Jr., G, 5-10, Willingboro, NJ/Trenton Catholic
Perkins is the second leading scorer in the MAAC. She led Rider to a 2-1 week averaging 19.7 points per game while pulling down 4.3 rebounds per contest. In a one-point win at Saint Peter’s on February 9, Perkins finished one off a career high with 26 points while pulling down six boards and adding two blocks. In a loss at Canisius on February 12, she scored 18 points and in Rider’s come from behind win at Niagara on February 14, she had 15 points. For the week, Perkins averaged 34.3 minutes per game
Rookie of the Week
Aryn McClure, Quinnipiac
Fr., G/F, 5-11, Springfield Gardens, NY/Archbishop Molloy
Aryn McClure was the leading scorer and rebounder for all MAAC freshmen this past week as she tallied 18 points and eight rebounds per game in helping lead the Bobcats to a 2-0 week. She rounded out her stat sheet with an average of 2.5 assists, 2.0 blocks and 1.0 steals in 32.5 minutes per game. McClure’s 18 PPG average came on 61.5 percent shooting as she finished the week 16-of-26 from the floor. Her highlight game of the week came in a heavyweight matchup on Friday as she outplayed Iona’s Joy Adams on the way to a career and game high 22 points on 10-of-16 shooting from the floor to go along with nine rebounds, three assists, three blocks and one steal in 37 minutes of a thrilling 62-61 home win over the MAAC-leading Gaels. McClure’s 22-point night stands as the most for a QU freshman in a single-game since Courtney Kaminski tallied 23 against Sacred Heart back on Feb. 27, 2007. Her defense on Adams also played a crucial role in the win as she held the nation’s sixth-leading rebounder coming in to just seven rebounds and only one on the offensive glass. The seven boards stands as the fewest for Adams in a game against a MAAC opponent this season as well as her fewest since the second game of the season. McClure then followed up that spectacular outing with a solid 14 points, seven rebounds, two assists, one block and one steal in a 65-53 win at Saint Peter’s on Sunday. Her 14 points came on 6-of-10 shooting from the floor while she pumped in eight of her 14 points in the second half alone.