Bowling Green State University Athletics
Reimold Named MAC Scholar-Athlete Of Week
January 08, 2003 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 8, 2003
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Buffalo's Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe (basketball) and Bowling Green's John Reimold (basketball) were named the MAC Scholar Athletes of the Week. The league office made the announcement on Tuesday evening (Jan. 7).
Reimold (So., 3.02, undecided, Greenville, Pa.) led the Falcons in both scoring and rebounding, with 18 points and nine assists, as BGSU won last week's lone game, a 64-63 triumph at Northern Illinois. The Falcons improved to 6-4 overall and 2-0 in the MAC with that win, and BGSU extended the current winning streak to four games.
Reimold scored 16 of his 18 points in the second half, and he had over half of the entire team's rebounds (17) in the win. Reimold went 6-of-11 from the field and 5-of-6 from the free-throw line, and had two steals in 37 minutes.
On the year, he was averaging 14.9 points and 4.9 rebounds entering Tuesday night's home game vs. Ball State. He had 18.5 points and 6.5 boards per game in the two MAC contests, both wins.
McMeeken-Ruscoe (Sr., 3.34, management, Nelson, New Zealand) averaged 18.0 points, 2.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 2.0 steals in three games last week, including her first double-double of the season with a game-high 22 points and a career-high 10 assists at Maine on Jan. 4. She also led the Bulls with 15 points against No. 25 Colorado on Jan. 2. In two games the week before, the senior scored a game-high 22 points in Buffalo's overtime win at Youngstown State on Dec. 18 and followed that with 17 points and seven assists in the Bulls' 77-67 win at Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 21. She has surpassed the 600-point plateau for career scoring in her two seasons with the Bulls and currently leads the team with 15.6 points per game and has nailed 90 percent (18-of-20) of her free throw attempts.
The MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week honor is presented to a MAC male and female student-athlete who has a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better and performs well during that week's competition. The winners are selected by one of the conference's faculty athletic representatives.
Female Nominees:
Ball State: Kate Endress (basketball, So., 3.88, entrepreneurship, Evansville, Ind.) tallied her sixth-straight double-figure scoring effort of the season with 17 points in leading Ball State to a 71-48 win over Chicago State in its only game last week. Endress added eight rebounds, five assists, two steals and no turnovers in 28 minutes of action. She was 6-of-9 from the floor, including 1-of-1 from three-point range, plus 4-of-4 from the charity stripe as BSU was victorious in its first home game of the season. Endress currently ranks second on the team with a 16.0 average plus is third in rebounding with 8.1 per game. She tops the MAC with a .931 (27 of 29) free throw percentage and ranks fifth in rebounding, sixth in scoring, ninth in three-point field goals
made and three-point field goal percentage.
Bowling Green: Lindsay Austin (basketball, Jr., 3.58, visual communication technology, Cincinnati, Ohio) averaged 11.5 points, 5.0 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals as the Falcons went 2-0 last week. She had 11 points, six rebounds and five assists in a come-from-behind, 69-59 win over IUPUI on Monday (Dec. 30). Austin scored 12 points and had five assists and five steals, tying her career best in the latter category, in a 70-69 win at Oakland to close the non-conference portion of the schedule. BGSU, 7-4 overall, posted the best non-league mark in over a decade. On the year, she is averaging 10.1 points (third on the team), 3.1 rebounds and a team-high 3.8 assists per game. She also leads the team in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.27).
Central Michigan: Laurie Henderson (basketball, Sr., 3.26, sports studies, Newark, Ohio) helped the Chippewas to a 69-62 come-from-behind win over Canisius last week. She had 13 points and six rebounds in the win. Henderson shot 5-for-10 from the floor and dished out three assists to only one turnover.
Kent State: Jamie Rubis (basketball, Sr., 3.47, business management, North Canton, Ohio -- Hoover High School) averaged 15.0 points and 7.5 rebounds in two Kent State wins this week. Against San Diego in the Surf and Slam Tournament, Rubis had team highs of 22 points and nine rebounds in the 62-57 win. She was 4-of-6 from three-point range, all in the second half, and helped the Golden Flashes break a two-game losing streak. Against Saint Peter's on Jan. 4, Rubis had eight points and tied a team high with six rebounds in the 60-52 win. Rubis now has 981 career points and passed former Golden Flash Carrie Nance to move to eighth in career free throws made (314), going 4-of-4 from the line.
Toledo: Tia Davis (basketball, Sr., 3.36, finance, Kokomo, Ind.) tallied 19 points, five rebounds, two blocks, two assists, and one steal in 36 minutes in the Rockets' 64-57 loss at Cincinnati.
Male Nominees:
Buffalo: Turner Battle (basketball, So., 3.46, communications, Kernersville, N.C.) has averaged 11.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists from his point guard position in his last six games. He scored a career-high 21 points in Saturday's 68-60 loss to Big Ten member Penn State and registered a career-best nine assists in UB's 75-64 win over Niagara on December 11 at Alumni Arena.
Central Michigan: Ty Morgan (wrestling, Jr., 3.48, psychology, Huber Heights, Ohio) won the final match in the dual against No. 7-ranked Michigan as the 10th-ranked Chippewas upset the Wolverines, 19-13. It marked only the second time in school history that the CMU grapplers have beaten the Wolverines. The No.8-ranked Morgan at 149 pounds clinched the CMU victory with a 14-10 win over the Maize and Blue's Jeremiah Tobias. Prior to the the Michigan dual, Morgan placed seventh at the prestigious Midlands en route to a 12th-place team finish. He went 4-2 in action at the national tournament.
Kent State: Jared Opfer (wrestling, Jr., 3.19, psychology, Sandusky, Ohio) led off the match and upset eighth-ranked Nick Simmons 7-5 which helped the 25th-ranked Kent State University wrestling team to a come-from-behind 18-15 upset victory at 11th-ranked Michigan State University on Jan. 4. KSU is now 6-0 on the season.
Miami: Tim Schenke (basketball, So., 3.10, finance, Cincinnati, Ohio) shot a career-high 18 points (5-of-10) and drilled 3-of-6 three-point shots, including the go-ahead trey with 1:14 left in the game in Miami's 71-62 come-from-behind win over Central Michigan on Saturday as the RedHawks improved to 2-0 in league play. Schenke poured in eight of his 18 points over the final 3:32 of the game as Miami went on a 17-1 run to pull from a seven-point deficit to a nine-point win. The 6-foot-6 forward also played tough post defense on the 7-foot Chris Kaman and dished out four assists while committing just one turnover. He sat out the Evansville game (12/30) due to a severely sprained ankle suffered in shoot around. For the season, Schenke boasts a team-best 3.17 assist/turnover ratio.
Toledo: Nick Moore (basketball, Sr., 3.16, marketing, Ypsilanti, Mich.) tallied 19 points, one rebound and three assists in 36 minutes of play in the Rockets' 81-76 win over No. 14 Michigan State. He shot 6-of-9 from the field, 4-of-7 from three-point range and 3-of-3 from the free-throw line. The victory was UT's second in three years over a nationally-ranked opponent and snapped the Spartans' 36-game non-conference home win streak.
Previous Winners:
Female Week 1 (Sept. 4)--Katie Kuzor, UA (volleyball) Week 2 (Sept. 10)--Andrea Kremer, MIA (cross country) Week 3 (Sept. 17)--Jennifer Nighswander, EMU (volleyball) Week 4 (Sept. 24)--Susan McDowell, BSU (field hockey) Week 5 (Oct. 1)--Jennifer Nighswander, EMU (volleyball) Week 6 (Oct. 8)--Lisa D'Amelio, EMU (tennis) Week 7 (Oct. 15)--Jennifer Eaton, MIA (volleyball) Week 8 (Oct. 22)--Erika Flanders, BGSU (soccer) Week 9 (Oct. 28)--Anna-Lesa Calvert, UB (soccer) Week 10 (Nov. 5)--Tara Buroker, MIA (volleyball) Week 11 (Nov. 12)--Melanie Peters, WMU (tennis) Week 12 (Nov. 19)--Briana Shook, UT (cross country) Week 13 (Nov. 26)--Heather Cusick, MIA (basketball) Week 14 (Dec. 3)--Valerie Zona, KSU (basketball) Week 15 (Dec. 10)--Colleen Day, MIA (basketball) Week 16 (Jan. 7)--Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe, UB (basketball)
Male Week 1 (Sept. 4)--Maurio Medley, KSU (football) Week 2 (Sept. 10)--Todd Ludden, UB (cross country) Week 3 (Sept. 17)--Josh Harris, BGSU (football) Week 4 (Sept. 24)--Curtis Head, MAR (football) Week 5 (Oct. 1)--Ryan Maarschalk, WMU (tennis) Week 6 (Oct. 8)--Josh Harris, BGSU (football) Week 7 (Oct. 15)--Boaz Cheboiywo, EMU (cross country) Week 8 (Oct. 22)--Chris Tuminello, UT (football) Week 9 (Oct. 28)--Chris Haneline, BGSU (football) Week 10 (Nov. 5)--Rickey McKenzie, UA (football) Week 11 (Nov. 12)--Sean Joyce, EMU (swimming) Week 12 (Nov. 19)--Boaz Cheboiywo, EMU (cross country) Week 13 (Nov. 26)--Jimmy Fryzel, UCF (football) Week 14 (Dec. 3)--Eric Haut, KSU (basketball) Week 15 (Dec. 10)--Eric Schenke, MIA (basketball) Week 16 (Jan. 7)--John Reimold, BGSU (basketball)
