Jacobs, Reynolds Earn NE-10 All-Academic Honors
Jacobs earns women's basketball honor for second straight year Reynolds earns first ice hockey honor
RINDGE, N.H. (February 9, 2006) - Two Franklin Pierce winter student-athletes earned first team Northeast-10 Conference All-Academic honors, the Conference announced today. The teams are selected by sports information directors at the NE-10's 15 member institutions.
Senior forward Heather Jacobs (Stoughton, Mass./Stoughton) was selected to the women's basketball All-Academic first team for the second-straight year, while sophomore forward Ben Reynolds (Wallingford, Pa./Green Mountain Glades) earned ice hockey All-Academic honors for the first time.
Jacobs has achieved a 3.50 cumulative grade point average at Franklin Pierce while majoring in sports and leisure service management. She leads the Ravens in scoring, averaging 13.8 points (7th NE-10) to go with 5.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.7 steals in a team-high 32.6 minutes per game (8th) this season. Jacobs leads the NE-10 in free-throw shooting percentage, hitting 85.2-percent (75-88) of her attempts from the line, and is shooting 44.7% (93-208) from the field.
Jacobs has led the Ravens in scoring seven times and rebounding eight and has registered the lone double-double of the year by a Franklin Pierce basketball player (men or women) this season with her ten points and season-high 13 rebounds in a tough double-overtime loss to No. 20 American International College last Saturday. She has reached double-figures in scoring in 16 of her 20 games played this season, including a season-best 22 points against the College of Saint Rose (1/16) and Bryant University (1/28).
Jacobs is just three points shy of cracking Franklin Pierce's all-time scoring list (20th) with 876 career points, while her 440 career rebounds are 23 shy of the program's top 20 list. She has also totaled 120 assists and 99 steals in 104 career games played.
Reynolds has earned a 3.31 cumulative grade point average at the College while majoring in education. The forward has played 15 games this season, totaling nine points, on seven goals and two assists. Reynolds has recorded three multi-goal games this season and matched the school-record with six power-play goals to go with one game-tying goal against Assumption College (1/28).
The two year starter has played in 39 career games, and ranks seventh on the program's career lists with 24 points, while his 12 goals are good for fourth and 12 assists ninth. During a solid rookie season, Reynolds made his mark on the single season leaders with 24 games played (1st), ten assists (4th), and 15 points (8th).
The Franklin Pierce women's basketball team (13-9, 10-7 NE-10), ranked eighth in this week's NCAA Division II Northeast Regional poll, returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Stonehill College, ranked No. 15 in this week's USA Today/ESPN Division II poll, at 1:30 p.m. The Ravens ice hockey team (1-14-4, 1-3-0 NE-10, 0-10-3 ECAC-Northeast) hosts Stonehill College on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.