Kelley Hubbell Named NCAC Player of the Week

For the third consecutive week, a pair of College of Wooster student-athletes were selected as the North Coast Athletic Conference Athletes of the Week, as Tony Sutton (Akron, Ohio / Archbishop Hoban) and Kelley Hubbell (Vienna, Va. / James Madison) earned the honor in football and field hockey, respectively, announced the NCAC office.

Sutton, a 5-11, 190-pound junior tailback, amassed 295 all-purpose yards on Saturday (Sept. 20) in leading the now-No. 20 ranked Fighting Scots to a 69-7 rout over host Bethany (W. Va.) College. In the first quarter, he rushed for 156 yards and two touchdowns on just eight attempts. Sutton was used sparingly the rest of the game, finishing with 15 carries for 193 yards and three rushing touchdowns, as well as another score on an 88-yard kickoff return - Wooster's first kickoff returned for a touchdown since 1991.

For the season, Sutton, who was named NCAC Offensive Player of the Week twice in 2002, is ranked third in NCAA Division III in scoring (18.0 points per game), seventh in all-purpose yardage (215.5 ypg), and 11th in rushing (161.5 ypg). Also noteworthy, Sutton is quickly approaching the 2,000-yard mark for his career, as he enters this week's game with 1,741 rushing yards and 22 total touchdowns in 11 games.

Hubbell, a junior back and Wooster's second-straight winner of the NCAC weekly field hockey award, had a big week with one goal, two assists, and two defensive saves, while leading the team to three wins. Against Washington & Jefferson College on Sept. 14, she notched two assists and made a defensive save during an 11-0 rout, and followed that up with the first goal and one of the squad's two defensive saves during a key 2-0 victory over Oberlin College on Sept. 18. Hubbell finished the week by helping limit Wittenberg University on Sept. 20 to nine shots in a 1-0 win - the Scots' third shutout in a row. Hubbell, an all-conference honoree in 2001, has started all nine games in 2003, totaling two goals and three assists for nine points, as well as five of Woster's seven defensive saves. In fact, she is ranked among the national leaders in that category.

Wooster's football and field hockey teams both have very important games this Saturday (Sept. 27). The Scot gridders travel to Cleveland for a meeting with Case Western Reserve University (3-0) at 1 p.m., while the stickers will be in Granville, Ohio, to take on Denison University (5-3, 3-0 NCAC) in a contest for sole possession of first-place in the league, starting at 11 a.m.