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LEC Announces Weekly Awards
N. Dartmouth, Mass. 5/10/2010 – The Little East Conference awarded three Owls with weekly awards on Monday.
Male Track
Athlete of the Week
Peter Najem (Derry, N.H.), Senior, Keene State College
Najem was the eighth runner to cross the finish line at the New
England Open Championships this past weekend at Northeastern
University. The senior from Derry, N.H. lowered his NCAA qualifying
time in the 1,500-meter run to three minutes, 50.67 seconds. Najem
also finished inside the top-10 in the 800-meter run (9th,
1:53.89).
Female Track
Athlete of the Week
Paige Mills (Keene, N.H.), Sophomore, Keene State
College
Competing at the New England Championships, Mills placed eighth in
the 5,000 with an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 17 minutes
28.20 seconds.
Baseball
Pitcher of the
Week
Dan Nelson (Glastonbury, Conn.), Junior, Keene State
College
In his lone appearance of the week, Nelson helped Keene State
College earn a share of the regular season title and the No. 2 seed
in the Little East Baseball Championship with his shutout victory
over the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on Friday. The
junior from Glastonbury, Conn. threw six innings of three-hit ball,
while striking out four and yielding just two walks. He did not
surrender a hit to the last 11 batters he faced.
