Five Owls Honored by the Little East

KEENE, N.H. 1/28/08 - Five Keene State athletes were honored by the Little East Conference on Monday.  Kristine Trutor (Holden, Mass.) and Chelsea Peruccio (Glastonbury, Conn.) were named women's swimmer and diver of the week respectively, John Napolitano (Providence, R.I.) and Crystal Blamy (Walpole, N.H.) were selected as field athletes of the week, and Nicole Simmler (Oxford, Mass.) was named to the women's basketball honor roll.

In two meets, Trutor won five individual events and two team races as Keene State College posted a 1-1 record. On Wednesday, the sophomore earned three victories at Bridgewater State, winning the 50-yard butterfly (27.22), 100-yard butterfly (1:02.06), and the 100-yard backstroke (1:02.35). Three days later, she recorded wins in the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.23) and 200-yard backstroke (2:13.98) against Division II Bentley College.     

Peruccio, a sophomore, won the one-meter and three-meter diving competitions at Bentley College this past weekend. She scored 220.15 points on the one-meter and 219.35 points on the three-meter.  

Napolitano won the weight throw competition at the Wesleyan Invitational this past weekend with a throw of 15.01 meters and breaking the school record set back in 1996. The senior defeated nine other Little East Conference participants in the field for his second career 1st place finish.   
          
Blamy posted an automatic NCAA Division III Championship qualifying and school record with her winning mark of 5.75 feet in the high jump at the Boston University Terrier Invitational this past weekend. She broke her own Keene State College record of 5.68 feet set last weekend. Blamy defeated a field consisting of Div. I, II, and III competitors.

Simmler averaged 16.5 points and 7.0 rebounds in the Owls two games.  She had 16 points and five rebounds in a 80-62 win over rival Plymouth State and 17 points and nine rebounds in a 58-53 setback against national ranked Southern Maine.