STAFF REPORT
Three former Cooperstown
girls basketball standouts had
big impacts on their respective
college teams this season.
Jen Wehner helped lead
the Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts (MCLA) women’s
basketball team to the program’s
first ever conference
title with a 68-65 victory over
Bridgewater last month.
Wehner was named the
tournament’s Most Valuable
Player with game-highs of
20 points and 10 rebounds.
In the three games, she
averaged 18.3 points and 11
rebounds for MCLA, 18-9.
In Wehner’s senior season
at Cooperstown, she helped
lead the Redskins to a Section
Three Class C title and a berth
in the state Final Four before
the team suffered its first loss
of the season.
In addition, Wehner was
named the MASCAC league’s
Player-of-the-Week for the
second time this season. Wehner
leads the team in scoring,
rebounding, blocked shots
and field goal percentage.
Wehner and the women’s
team will next travel to face
undefeated Amherst on Friday
in a NCAA Tournament first
round game. Amherst is 27-0,
and ranked first in the latest
Division Three National poll.
Fellow CCS graduate Dana
Leonard, a 1,000-point
scorer in high school, helped
lead the Skidmore women’s
basketball team to a Liberty
League title last month.
Leonard, a senior, and
three of her teammates were
featured in a story in The Saratogian
last month as being
instrumental in helping turn
the program around during
their four years at Skidmore.
The team had never won a
league title before this season,
and the four made it a goal to
win one before their careers
were over.
Leonard, who was also a
key member of the 2005 girls
soccer team at Cooperstown
that won a Section Three
Class C title, led Skidmore in
rebounds this season.
Also, Samantha
Fox, a teammate
and classmate of
Wehner’s, led the
Herkimer women’s
basketball team in
scoring during her
senior season, averaging
just over 13.1
points-a-game.
Like Leonard, Fox was a
1,000-point scorer at CCS.
She helped lead Herkimer
to a 19-11 record this past
season, and was
recently named to the
All Mountain Valley
All-Conference team
along with teammate
Courtney Terzi.
``Sam has been
one of the best post
players to ever play
at Herkimer. She is a
difference maker and a game
changer,’’ said Herkimer head
coach John Campagna.
