Eskinazi-Budge, a five-foot and eight-inch guard, has started 16 of 20 games and tops the Yellow Jackets in scoring at 10.2 points per game. She is one of the best players in the rugged Ohio Athletic Conference, and carries a 3.86 grade average in sports medicine and pre-physical therapy. In addition, Eskinazi-Budge grabs 4.3 rebounds per game, has passed for 36 assists and leads the team with 37 steals. Prior to transferring to B-W in 2006-2007, Eskinazi-Budge was an Academic All-Atlatic Coast Conference student-athlete at the University of Miami of Florida.

 

Ariel Brough

Brough, a 6’2” center, has started all 20 games and averages 7.4 points and 5.0 rebounds per game. The political science major who carries a 3.933 grade average has 13 assists and 13 steals and leads the team in blocked shotswith 34.

 

Tomorrow, Eskinazi-Budge and Brough and the Yellow Jacket women, 18-2 overall, in first place in the OAC and ranked 16th in Division III in the latest WBCA/ USA TODAY poll, play at second place Wilmington College in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in Berea at 3:00 p.m.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact B-W Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327, by FAX machine at 440-826-2329 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu. To contact Head Women’s Basketball Coach Cheri Harrer, please call her office at 440-826-3299 or e-mail her at charrer@bw.edu. The B-W athletics Web site also can be accessed at www.bw.edu/athletics.