Ama Biney of Worcester, Mass., Pockets NEWMAC and NEWBA Women's Basketball Weekly Awards

2016 Nov 28

WPI junior Ama Biney has been tabbed as the NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week and New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA) Player of the Week.

Biney averaged 21 points, six rebounds and 2.7 steals per game in a 3-0 week for the Engineers. She dropped a career-high 28 on RPI Saturday and followed up with 16 Sunday vs Johnson & Wales en route to WPI Thanksgiving Classic MVP honors. Biney added 19 points, eight rebounds, two assists and two steals in just 19 minutes against Nichols on Tuesday.

The local product, who was on last week's NEWBA honor roll, was displaced by Babson senior Jennifer Narlee (Medfield, Mass.) as the NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week.

Women's Basketball (5-1) opens its NEWMAC slate Wednesday with a 7pm appointment at Wellesley.

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