University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Athletics

Roland set a career-high with 15 rebounds against UW-River Falls on Wednesday and narrowly missed a double-double with nine points.  In Saturday’s comeback victory over UW-Stout, she increased her career-best to 19 rebounds and scored 17 points for her first double-double of the season.  Through the first two conference games, she leads the league in total rebounds (34), offensive rebounds (13) and defensive boards (21) and is seventh in the WIAC with a 13.0 scoring average.  Roland also had six assists, five steals and three blocks on the week.

Other Nominees: 

Luke McElhenie: The sophomore forward tallied a career-high four points in the Pointers’ 7-1 victory over St. Olaf on Saturday night. McElhenie assisted on the contest’s opening goal 3:16 into the opening period, before grabbing his first goal of the evening four minutes later. McElhenie picked up his second assist of the night on a power-play goal in the first period that extended the Pointers lead to 4-0 late in the first period. He netted his second goal of the evening midway through the third period, giving UWSP a 6-0 advantage. McElhenie picked up his second multi-goal performance of the season, after netting a pair against Adrian on Dec. 13.

Cara Lemirande: Lemirande scored two goals and totaled three points over the weekend for UWSP.  In Friday’s comeback win over College of Saint Benedict, she tallied an unassisted goal early in the second period to knot the game at 1-1.  Late in the third period, she assisted on a go-ahead goal for the first lead in the game.  On Saturday, she scored on the power play in the opening minute of the third period to pull UWSP within two goals.  Lemirande is now tied for the team lead in goals (5), assists (6) and points (11).

Matt Berlin: Berlin pinned both of his opponents as the Pointers defeated Cornell and Luther in duals on Saturday.  He needed just 6:20 to completed both of his falls, winning in the second period against Cornell and recording a first-period fall against Luther.  He improved to 12-5 on the year with just one defeat at 133.