PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week for Feb. 25 2008

After wrapping up the final week of the regular season with lots of momentum going into tournament play, Doug Polster (Bernardsville, NJ/Bernards) has been named as the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week, becoming the third Blue Jay to receive this honor thus far this season.

Polster averaged 17.5 points last week in two key conference wins for Johns Hopkins. The Blue Jays put themselves in the drivers seat for the #3 seed in the playoffs with an overtime win at McDaniel on Wednesday. Polster punched up 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting, including seven of Hopkins 17 points in OT.

On Saturday, Polster scored 14 points, including the game-winning bucket with 9.6 seconds remaining in overtime against Washington. The win clinched the #3 seed and a first round bye for the Blue Jays. For the week, he shot 50.0 percent from the floor, including 35.7 percent from downtown. He was also perfect from the free throw line and had four rebounds, two assists and one steal.

John Hopkins will take on Gettysburg this Saturday in the Centennial semifinal.

PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Honor Roll (02/18/08-02/24/08)

Jade Belt, Frostburg State, Senior, Center, Baltimore, Md./Perry Hall

Tim Kohlrus, Washington College, Junior, Guard, Fairfax, VA/W.T. Woodson

Calvin Wise, St. Mary's (Md.), Junior, Forward, Bel Air, Md./Calvert Hall

2007-08 PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Players of the Week

11/19 - Ryan Junghans, Hood, Junior, Guard, Derwood, MD/Magruder

11/25 - Brett Foelber, McDaniel, Senior, Guard/Forward, Sykesville, MD/Cardinal Gibbons

12/03 - Tyson Lesesne, St. Mary's (Md.), Senior, Guard, Edgewood, MD/Edgewood

12/10 - Jesse Gutekunst, Hood, Senior, Center, Hagerstown, MD/South Hagerstown

1/7 - Brian Green, Frostburg, Senior, Guard, Baltimore, MD/Archbishop Curley

1/14 - Greg Woody, Villa Julie, Sophomore, Guard, Baltimore, MD/Mt. St. Joe 

1/21 - Pat O'Connell, John Hopkins, Sophomore, Guard, Baltimore, MD/Loyola Blakefield

1/28 - Greg Woody, Villa Julie, Sophomore, Guard, Baltimore, MD/Mt. St. Joe

2/4 - Ryan Junghans, Hood, Junior, Guard, Derwood, MD/Magruder

2/11 - Andrew Farber-Miller, John Hopkins, Sophomore, Forward, Charlottesville, VA/St. Anne's-Belfield

2/18 - Mike Smelkinson , St. Mary's (Md.), Senior, Guard, Elkridge, Md./Long Reach

About the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week Award

Entering its second year, the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week Award is granted on a weekly basis on behalf of the Pride of Maryland Tournament Committee. Each week, each of the nine Pride of Maryland schools has the ability to nominate one men's basketball player, based upon their on-court accomplishments over the previous seven days. An esteemed panel of media members vote to select the most outstanding player of the group. Simply, the student-athlete with the most votes becomes the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week. All student-athletes who receive votes, but are not named the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week, are then named to the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Honor Roll.

The award will be presented on Mondays, beginning on November 19, 2007, and concluding February 25, 2008, with a two-week hiatus on December 25, 2006.

The Pride of Maryland is comprised of the nine NCAA Division III schools in the state: Frostburg State University, Goucher College, Hood College, John Hopkins University, McDaniel College, Salisbury University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Villa Julie College and Washington College.

For more information on the Provident Bank Pride of Maryland Tournament, go to http://www.providentpride.com/.



About PrestoSports

PrestoSports is proud to sponsor the Provident Bank Pride of Maryland Tournament, and has created the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Week Award to recognize the best athletic achievements in the state of Maryland. A Rockville, Md., based company, PrestoSports is a leading provider of athletic content management software to colleges and conference offices used for designing, building and maintaining official athletic websites. With clients across the country, PrestoSports focuses on smaller schools and conferences in NCAA Divisions II and III.