Easton, Massachusetts, senior leads Skyhawks to two big divisional wins
NE10 Women's Basketball Weekly Report
EASTON, Mass. (February 8, 2022) – Stonehill College senior forward Kayla Raymond has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Week in women's basketball for the second time this season by the league office on Monday.
Raymond, who earns the weekly award for the third time in her career, led Stonehill to a pair of big wins in NE10 Northeast Divisional play by averaging 25.0 points per game on 50-percent shooting (20-for-40), including 8-for-18 (44.4%) from three-point range. She also contributed 4.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 blocked shots per game for the week.
Raymond opened the week by totaling a game-high 24 points on 8-of-16 shooting, including 7-for-11 three-pointers (career-best for 3-pt FGs), with six rebounds, three assists and three blocked shots in Thursday's 76-73 overtime win at No. 20 Bentley University. She capped the week with a game-high 26 points, including ten in the fourth quarter alone as she scored the Skyhawks last eight points of the contest, including a game-winning alley-oop at the buzzer, in Saturday's 61-59 win over Saint Anselm College. She made 12-of-24 shots (50%) from the floor for the afternoon, scoring her 1,000th career point in the process, with three rebounds, three assists, a blocked shot and steal.
Raymond earns NE10 Player of the Week honors for the second time this season and third time for her career overall (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard) |
Raymond has started 11 of her 13 games played this season and has moved up to fourth among NE10 scoring leaders with her team-best 18.2 points per game, adding a team-best 6.7 rebounds (12th NE10), with 1.9 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.7 blocked shots (4th) in 28.8 minutes per game. She is shooting 40.9-percent (90-for-220) from the field and converting 80.6% (29-36) of her free-throws (9th), totaling three double-doubles (nine career), and scoring in double-figures in 12 of her 13 games played this season (50 career), with four 20-point games (18 career), including a career-high matching 32 in a win at the University of New Haven on January 15, leading the Skyhawks in scoring in seven games (36 career) and rebounding four (30 career).
Raymond, a two-time All-NE10 selection after earning first team honors as a sophomore in 2019-20 when she was also a WBCA Division II Honorable Mention All-American, became the 33rd player in program history to surpass the 1,000-point plateau late in the fourth quarter of Saturday's win over Saint Anselm, finishing the day with 1,005 points in 60 career games played (16.8 ppg career). She has started 53 of her 60 career games played and added 404 rebounds and 98 blocked shots for her career. The 2019 NE10 Rookie of the Year and Division II Bulletin All-Rookie Team honoree is shooting 44.7-percent from the field for her career, including 33.4% from three-point distance (107-for-320), converting 82.1% of her free-throws, with 6.7 rebounds, 1.6. assists and 1.6 blocked shots over her career.
Raymond was named Most Outstanding Player of the 2020 NE10 Championship and earned All-Tournament team honors at the 2019 NCAA Division II East Regional. She was a D2CCA All-East Region second team performer in 2019-20 and earned NE10 Rookie of the Week accolades nine times as a freshman. Raymond has also been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll.
Stonehill (8-6, 7-5 NE10) opens a busy three game week winners of three-straight and ranked No. 8 in this week's D2SIDA East Region poll when it hosts Franklin Pierce University on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. The Skyhawks will hit the road for a pair of games on Thursday at Pace University at 3 p.m., before visiting Assumption University on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
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