Trinity Women's Basketball's Arnstein Tops NESCAC in Steals in 2007-08

Hartford, Conn., March 11, 2008 - The Trinity College women's basketball team, coached by Wendy Davis (3rd Season), finished the 2007-08 season with a 10-13 overall record and a 10th-place, 1-8 league mark in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).  The Bantams suffered back-to-back, one-point losses in the NESCAC early in the league slate and remained in contention for a third straight postseason bid up to the season's second-to-last weekend.

Senior co-captain swing player Kathleen Conlon (Sagamore Beach, Mass.) and senior guard Devon Kearns (Glastonbury, Conn.) closed out their basketball careers.  Conlon was a four-year player for both the Trinity basketball and field hockey teams and Kearns emerged as a starter this season after transferring to Trinity from Connecticut College in January of her junior year.  Conlon played in all 23 games with 10 starts and averaged 3.5 ppg (80) and 1.9 rebounds per game (43) and added 10 steals and 10 three-pointers (T2nd on team) in 34 attempts (.294).  Kearns started 21 of 22 games, averaging 6.5 ppg (142) and 2.8 boards per contest (61) with 48 assists (2nd on team) and 36 steals (2nd on team).  She shot .703 from the foul line (26-37).  Conlon, Trinity's representative on the NESCAC All-Sportsmanship Team, played in 15 games at guard and totaled 25 points, 16 assists, and 11 steals in her career.  She shot .286 from the field (82-287), .294 from three-point range (23-79), and .506 from the foul line (44-87).  In her two-year stint as a Bantam, Kearns played in 37 games with 22 starts and tallied 170 points (4.6 ppg), 79 rebounds, 60 assists, and 39 steals. She shot .333 from the field (67-201) and .721 from the charity stripe (31-43).

Sophomore guard Claire Arnstein (Hicksville, N.Y.) started every game at point guard and led Trinity in scoring with 13.5 ppg (311, 10th in NESCAC), assists (91, 4th in NESCAC), and steals (68, led NESCAC), while shooting .401 percent from the field (108-269), .343 from three-point range (37-108, 7th in NESCAC in 3FGM), and .617 from the foul line (58-94).  Arnstein also averaged 3.6 rebounds per game (82) and led the Bantams in scoring in 15 times.  Classmate Tess Donie (Worcester, Mass.) was averaging 10.4 points per game and helping Trinity to a 7-1 start to the season before missing several weeks of the season due to an injury.  Donie returned to the court in a limited role for the final three games.  In all, she scored 7.3 points per game (73) and grabbed 2.2 rebounds per game (22) with 11 assists, eight three-pointers in 14 attempts (.571) and 19 free throws in 26 tries (.731).

Fellow sophomores Christine Card (Waterbury, Conn.) and Kristen Liska (Falmouth, Mass.) were steady regulars in the frontcourt, as Card started all 23 games at center and Liska started 18 games and played in all 23 at forward.  Card averaged 9.9 ppg (201) and a team-high 6.2 boards per game (143), with a .443 field goal percentage (89-215, led team) and a .639 free throw shooting percentage (23-36).  Card added 39 assists, 25 steals, and a team-high 27 blocked shots (7th in NESCAC).  Liska scored 6.1 ppg (141) and pulled down 4.7 boards per game (108) while shooting .371 from the field 956-151) and .659 from the charity stripe (29-44).  Sophomore co-captain forward Jessica Sims (Peabody, Mass.), who started 11 games and played in all 23 contests, was a formidable force defensively and on the glass despite her diminutive stature at 5-foot-7 underneath.  Sims averaged 2.7 ppg (63) and 4.9 rebounds per game (112, 2nd on team), made 29 out of 50 tries (led team in FTA) from the foul line (.58), and collected 33 steals. 

A solid class of freshmen made up the bulk of a productive bench that included guard Kristen Fahey (Cumberland, R.I.), swing player Rebecca Cohn (San Francisco, Calif.), F Carly Westman (Newton, Mass.), and center Molly McGlynn (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.).  Fahey playing in 22 games and started one, averaging 3.9 ppg (85) and 2.3 rebounds per game (50) with 29 assists and 22 steals.  Fahey made 10 three-pointers (T2nd on team) in 29 tries (.345) and was 15-for-25 from the foul line for a team-high .750 percentage.  Cohn played in all 23 games and started one and averaged 5.2 ppg (120) and 2.7 rebounds per game (62) with 20 assists.  She shot .318 from the field (48-151) and .676 from the foul line (23-34).  Westman averaged 3.3 ppg (70), 1.9 rebounds per game (40), shot .409 from the field (27-66) and .600 from the line (12-20).  McGlynn appeared in 22 games and solid on the boards with 3.0 per game (67) in 8.6 minutes per game.  She also averaged 3.0 ppg (66), shot 22-for-60 from the field (.367) and 22-for-30 from the charity stripe (.733). 

Junior forward Catherine Doyle (Cambridge, Mass.) played in 18 games and grabbed 19 rebounds, sophomore swing player Leigh Kaplan (Cross River, N.Y.) saw action in 11 games, and sophomore guard Sarah D'Addabbo (New Britain, Conn.) appeared in eight games for the Bantams.