Fourth time for Scorpio on All-CCC
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) announced its 2019-20 Women's Basketball All-Conference Teams and major award winners Monday afternoon. Sixteen student-athletes were honored overall with Endicott, the University of New England, and Western New England each having three representatives.
Two major awards this year went to a pair of Gordon seniors as Meghan Foley (Malden, Mass.) and Sarah Gibbs (Elizabethtown, Pa.) were named Player and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively. Nichols freshman Alexis Finnerty (Chester, Conn.) was selected as the Rookie of the Year. WNE senior Meghan Orbann (East Hampton, Conn.) was voted the CCC Scholar-Athlete and her coach Nicole Chaszar was named the 2019-20 Coach of the Year. Gordon was the Team Sportsmanship award winner.
Voting for the All-CCC Teams and major awards was conducted by the nine CCC women's basketball head coaches following the conclusion of the regular season.
As the Player of the Year, Foley was also named to the All-CCC First Team along with five others. Endicott was the only school with multiple First Teamers as Emily Pratt (Gardner, Mass.) and Kaleigh Putnam (Wallingford, Conn.) both received the honor. Roger Williams' Karli Opalka (Southbury, Conn.), UNE's Abby Cavallaro (South Portland, Maine), and WNE's Emily Farrell (New Fairfield, Conn.) were the other All-CCC First Team honorees.
Farrell's teammates Courtney Carlson (Woodbury, Conn.) and Orbann were All-CCC Second Team Selections. Joining them as Second Teamers were Jocelyn Chaput (Nashua, N.H.) from UNE, Sam Leone (Ashland, Mass.) from Roger Williams, and Mikaela Rogers (Haverhill, Mass.) from Endicott.
The All-CCC Third Team was made up for five student-athletes, all representing different schools. Gordon's Gibbs earned one spot as did Nichols' Finnerty. The rest of the Third Team consisted of Erin Morton (Norway, Maine) from Wentworth, Sadie Nelson (Windham, Maine) from UNE, and Torie Scorpio (Cranston, R.I.) from Salve Regina University.
"Tor's acknowledgement is well deserved," says Cori Hughes, in her 13th year as head coach of the Seahawks. "She is one of the hardest working players I have ever coach; and that hard work has obviously paid off. We have some big shoes to fill next year without Torie Scorpio wearing the Blue and Green."