A.J. Rudowitz |
Randall Stallworth |
Rudowitz & Stallworth Collect All-Conference Honors
Rudowitz earns first team
All-Northeast-10 honors for second-straight season
Stallworth named Defensive Player of the Year, voted to All-NE-10
second team
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EASTON, Mass. (February 26, 2010) - Stonehill College seniors A.J. Rudowitz (Monroe Township, N.J./Monroe Township) and Randall Stallworth (Toms River, N.J./Monsignor Donovan) have both earned postseason honors from the Northeast-10 Conference, as voted on by the league's 16 head coaches.
Rudowitz earned first team All-Northeast-10 Conference honors for the second-straight year. Stallworth earns All-NE-10 honors for the first time with his selection to the second team, while also being voted the Conference's Defensive Player of the year. Head Coach David McLaughlin also collected postseason accolades by being named Coach of the Year by his peers.
Rudowitz, who also earned ESPN The Magazine District I Academic All-America honors for the second-straight year this season, has started all 27 games for Stonehill and is leading the team with 14.2 points (15th NE-10), 7.3 rebounds (9th), 1.4 blocked shots (6th) and 1.2 steals per game, while also dishing 2.6 assists in 30.5 minutes per game. He is shooting 49.1-percent (138-for-281) from the field (12th) while converting 66.5% (103-155) of his free-throw attempts.
Senior A.J. Rudowitz has earned first team All-NE-10 honors for the second-straight year. |
Rudowitz has led Stonehill in scoring ten times this winter and in rebounding 11 times with the Skyhawks posting an 11-0 record when he is their top rebounder. He has also posted a team-best five double-doubles (16 career). Rudowitz earned NE-10 Player of the Week honors in back-to-back weeks November 30 and December 7.
Rudowitz enters the postseason ranked eighth in program history with 1,494 career points in 110 career games played. He sits just four points shy of David Donnelly (1995-99) for seventh all-time. Rudowitz has also totaled 803 rebounds, 223 assists, 121 blocked shots and 124 steals over his career. He has netted double-figures in points 86 times, including 13 career 20-plus point games. Rudowitz was also an NABC District All-Star as a junior, is a two-time NE-10 All-Academic selection and earned a spot on the NE-10 All-Rookie team as a freshman.
Stallworth led the top defensive team in the NE-10 this season as the Skyhawks rank first in the Conference in scoring defense (59.0ppg), field goal percentage defense (.389 and blocked shots per game (4.9/gm),while ranking second in three-point field goal percentage defense (.295). He is the first Defensive Player of the Year from Stonehill since Adrian Machado earned the award following the 1994-95 season.
Senior Randall Stallworth was named the NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year and collected second team All-NE-10 honors. |
Stallworth has also started all 27 games for Stonehill this year and is averaging 12.7 points and 4.0 assists (7th) to go with 2.2 rebounds and 1.0 steals in 32.3 minutes per game. He ranks fourth in the NE-10 in three-point field goal percentage, converting 42-percent (37-for-88) of his attempts, while shooting 46.7% from the field overall and shooting 79% (79-100) from the free-throw line (13th). Stallworth has led the Skyhawks in scoring ten times this season.
Stallworth, who became the 34th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point mark for his career earlier this season, enters the post season ranked 22nd all-time with 1,148 points and ranking ninth all-time with 115 career three-pointers, while also dishing out 485 career assists. He has scored in double-figures 55 times in his career.
Stonehill (23-4, 20-2 NE-10), ranked first in this week's NCAA Division II East Regional rankings and 18th in this week's NABC Division II poll, has captured its sixth NE-10 regular season championship in program history and will be the top seed for the upcoming NE-10 Tournament. The Skyhawks will host the winner of tomorrow's NE-10 first round matchup between ninth-seeded Adelphi University (19-10, 12-10 NE-10) and eighth-seeded American International College (14-13, 12-10 NE-10) in a quarterfinal round clash on Monday at Merkert Gymnasium at 7 p.m. Admission to Monday's game will be $7.00 for adults, $4.00 for senior citizens and students, with students with valid college ID admitted for $1.00.
