Colby College | Athletics | King, Julian, Crowell all earn NESCAC honors

King, Julian, Crowell earn NESCAC honors

Contact: William Sodoma
Date: April 28, 2008

WATERVILLE, Maine --- Track and field athlete Anna King (Greenland, N.H.), women's lacrosse player Becky Julian (South Windsor, Conn.), and softball player Alyssa Crowell (Gilford, N.H.) all earned weekly honors for Colby College from the New England Small College Athletic Conference on Monday. King was the NESCAC Women's Track Performer of the Week, Julian was Player of the Week for women's lacrosse, and Crowell earned Pitcher of the Week honors in softball.

King broke her own meet and school record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and won the event for the second straight year for the Colby women's outdoor track and field team at the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday at Hamilton College. King, a senior, had a time of 10:34.65 to beat the field by nearly 36 seconds and also set a facility record. King's previous best time was 10:36.31 in taking second place at last year's Open New England meet. King then earned All-America honors by taking fifth at the NCAA meet.

Julian, who earned weekly honors for the second time this season, tied a NESCAC playoff record with nine points in a game with four goals and five assists in a 22-14 league quarterfinal win over Tufts on Sunday. The nine points were a collegiate high for her as was the five assists. Julian had eight goals and six assists in a 2-0 week. She also had four goals and one assist in a 12-7 win over Amherst and reached 100 career points in the game. Julian added nine draw controls (6 against Tufts) in the two games.

Julian, a junior attacker, has 37 goals and 17 assists for 54 points this season and career totals of 81 goals and 28 assists for 109 points. She ranks fourth in the NESCAC in points per game (4.15), fourth in goals per game (2.85), and seventh in assists per contest (1.31).

Crowell had a 2-0 record and one save in three appearances last week for the Colby softball team. She allowed just two earned runs in 15 innings of work and had 11 strikeouts with just three walks. Crowell pitched a three-hitter and allowed no earned runs while striking out two and walking one in a 6-2 league win against Bowdoin on Thursday. She worked the seventh inning to pick up her first save of the season in a 5-4 win against the Polar Bears on Friday. Crowell closed out the week with another three-hitter and eight strikeouts in a 10-2 win over Maine Maritime on Saturday.

Crowell, a junior, has a 5-2 record and one save this season. She ranks 10th in the conference in earned run average (2.71) and has 28 strikeouts and 18 walks in 59.1 innings.