Xenos stacking up honors at Mount Ida
Former Brockton High School two-sport star Adrienne Xenos has blossomed into a three-sport all-star in college. Xenos is gathering so many awards, she needs an extra-large trophy case for all her hardware.
Xenos, a senior at Mount Ida College in Newton, is leading the women's basketball team in scoring with a 15.5-points-per-game average. She has been deadly, connecting on 52 percent (66 of 128) of her shots from the floor through 11 games. In addition, she is averaging 9.4 rebounds per contest.
She is on the way to earning her second consecutive North Atlantic Conference All-Star honor in basketball -- and the second All-Star honor this school year. In the fall, North Athletic Conference volleyball coaches selected Xenos as the league's Player of the Year. The outside hitter led Mount Ida to its fifth-straight league title with a perfect 10-0 conference record.
When spring rolls around, Xenos will trade her basketball sneakers for softball cleats.
She bats leadoff for Mount Ida. As a junior, she batted .346 with 7 doubles, 4 triples, and 3 home runs while playing center field. Again, she was a NAC All-Star.
Another coaching
award for Pacini
Giovanni Pacini of Braintree keeps piling on the coaching honors.
The men's soccer coach at Lasell College in Newton has been selected as College Coach of the Year by the Eastern Massachusetts High School Soccer Coaches Association. This is the second year in a row he has won the award.
Pacini led Lasell to the North Atlantic Conference championship with a 15-6 overall record and a 13-0 mark in the conference last season.
He said he is humbled by the awards, and handed the credit to his assistant coaches and players.
Since becoming head coach in 1998, Pacini guided Lasell to seven winning seasons, two trips to the NCAA tournament, an ECAC bid, and two league titles.
Before taking over at Lasell, Pacini coached at Weymouth North High School, Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne, Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Reske shot wins
at the buzzer
Kristen Reske of Duxbury will not easily forget the final seconds of the Little East Conference women's basketball game between her University of Massachusetts at Boston Beacons and Plymouth (N.H.) State University on Jan. 9. She had a fantastic finish.
Reske, who was scoreless and missed all three shots she took in the game, connected on a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give UMass-Boston a 65-62 victory at the Clark Center in Dorchester.
The victory improved the Beacons' record to 6-6 this season. Reske, a senior who played in high school at Sacred Heart in Kingston, is a team captain for the Beacons along with former Milton High School standout Denise B. Ridge.
Ridge and Reske have been on the team since their freshman year, and both are starters. Ridge's best game was in a 96-86 victory over Eastern Connecticut State University when she scored a team-high 20 points .
Bates benefits
from Wholey's play
Bryan Wholey of Marshfield is playing a key role for the unbeaten Bates College men's basketball team in Lewiston, Maine. Wholey is the second-leading scorer, averaging 14 points per game.
He is a junior, and every year he has been on the team, the Bobcats have advanced to the New England Small College Athletic Conference's Final Four. Last year, Bates won a team-record 20 games, thanks to another record, a 16-game winning streak.
A year ago, when he was a sophomore, Wholey scored a career-high 24 points against Plymouth State.
Wholey had a distinguished career at Boston College High School before enrolling at Bates. He was the Catholic Conference's Most Valuable Player his senior year and was a two-time league all-star.
Wheaton's Harlow
on a jumping high
Wheaton College high jumper Jen Harlow of East Bridgewater picked up where she left off last spring when she won the NCAA championship and earned All-America honors.
Harlow topped 13 jumpers with a leap of 5 feet 8 inches, a personal best, to win in a Dartmouth College track meet Dec. 11 at the Leverone Field House. Her jump was good enough to qualify for this year's national championship. She also competed in the 60-meter hurdles and finished fourth.
Another Wheaton runner, sophomore Chizoba Ezeigwe of Brockton, finished fourth in the 60-meter dash finals. Her time of 7.91 seconds was just six- 100ths of a second shy of an NCAA meet provisional qualifying time.
Moise rewarded
for first college win
Atlantic Hockey selected Bentley College sophomore goaltender Nick Moise of Walpole to its weekly honor roll for the period end ed Jan. 7.
The honor came after Moise made 26 saves while allowing only two goals to earn the win in his first career start Jan. 5, a 3-2 victory over Holy Cross.
Moise was a three-sport (soccer, hockey, and baseball) captain at Walpole High School before graduating in 2003. He spent the next year at the Loomis Chafee School in Connecticut, and the following year he played Junior A hockey for the Bay State Breakers.
As a freshman, he did not get to play in a game for Bentley, and this year, he was used sparingly until he started his first game on Jan. 5 against Holy Cross.
