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Navy's Consedine Garners Fifth League Rookie Award

First Navy freshman to score 20 points in a game in seven years

	Cassie Consedine

Feb. 5, 2008

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- Navy freshman Cassie Consedine (Bartlesville, Okla.) picked up her fifth Patriot League Women's Basketball Rookie-of-the-Week accolade of the year Monday after averaging 19.0 points and 8.5 rebounds a game last week for the Midshipmen. She has previously received the nod from the league -- which is open only to freshmen -- Nov. 12, Nov. 19, Jan. 7 and Jan. 21.

After scoring 18 points and grabbing nine rebounds against American, Consedine went on to score a career-high 20 points and haul in eight caroms against Colgate. Her latter scoring tally made her the first Navy freshman to score at least 20 points in a game in seven years.

On the year, she ranks 14th nationally with an average of 2.71 blocks per game, ranks 80th in the country with 8.5 rebounds a game and is the 11th-leading rookie scorer in the NCAA this year with an average of 13.6 points per game.

Already the holder of the school record for the most blocks recorded in a season with 57, the 6-3 center also is tied for fifth place for the most three-pointers tallied as a Navy freshman with 21.

Navy will open the second half of its Patriot League season Saturday when the Mids play at Bucknell in a 7 p.m. game in Lewisburg, Pa.