Fairfield University senior women’s basketball player Sabra Wrice (Riverside, N.J.) was named to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) First Team, announced this afternoon by the league office.  Teammate Baendu Lowenthal (Riverside, N.J.) was also honored, earning All-MAAC Second Team accolades.

Wrice, a graduate of Riverside High School, earned first team honors for the second consecutive year.  The guard, who has scored 1,552 career points, finished the regular season as the fourth leading scorer in the league, averaging a team-best 16.4 points per game.  She also led the team with 64 steals, which ranked third in the MAAC, and is seventh in the league with 57 made three-point field goals.

Lowenthal, also a Riverside High School graduate, earns second team accolades for the second time in as many years.  A junior, she became the 22nd Stag in program history to reach 1,000 career points in the regular season finale at Loyola, and enters the tournament with 1,006 points.  She ranks fifth in the league in scoring, 14.7 points per game, third in rebounding, 7.8 per game, and fourth in field goal percentage, 51.2 percent from the floor.
 
The Stags posted a 21-8 record during the regular season, the fifth time in program history they have reached 20 wins in the regular season.  Fairfield went 11-7 in league play and finished in a tie with Iona for second place.  The Stags are the number three seed at the upcoming MAAC Tournament, and will take on number-six seed Siena in the quarterfinals at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, March 7.