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Men's & Women's Basketball Teams Well Represented On All-ECC Teams-Beddome & Boykin Earn First Team All-Conferene Honors; Ruane Named Co-Men's Hoops Coach of the Year

Men's & Women's Basketball Teams Well Represented On All-ECC Teams-Beddome & Boykin Earn First Team All-Conferene Honors; Ruane Named Co-Men's Hoops Coach of the Year
March 2, 2010

Central Islip, NY-The University of Bridgeport men's and women's basketball teams, who both will be the top seed in this week's East Coast Conference Championship Tournaments, are well represented on the 2000-2010 All-Conference Teams that were released today.

On the men's side, junior guard Dave Boykin (White Plains, NY) was named First Team All-ECC, and senior guard Steve Martin (Philadelphia, PA) was named Second Team All-Conference. UB head coach Mike Ruane, who for the seventh time in the last eight years guided his team to at least 20 wins, shares ECC Coach of the Year honors with Tim Cluess of C.W. Post.
 
So far this season, Boykin, who was a Second Team All-Conference selection as a sophomore, is averaging 12.4 points per, and he leads the Purple Knights in three-point shots made with 69 and steals with 53. Martin heads into the East Coast Conference Tournament averaging 12.0 points per game and leads UB in assists with 86, plus he has connected on 90.0 percent of his free throws, hitting 60-of-66 from the line.
 
On the women's side, senior forward Emma Beddome (Melbourne, Australia) was named First Team All-ECC, and front court mates, senior Shannon Malone (Melbourne, Australia) and junior Ana-Maria Kammer (Frankfurt, Germany) earned spots on the Second Team All-Conference squad.
 
Beddome leads the UB women's team in rebounding so far this season averaging 7.2 boards per game, and she is second in scoring averaging 12.0 points per game. Malone has averaged 10.0 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in 2009-2010, and she leads the Purple nights in assists with 98 and steals with 42. Kammer leads Bridgeport in scoring averaging 13.6 points per game.
 
The Bridgeport men will open play in the 2010 East Coast Conference Championship Tournament this Saturday, March 6 when they will face the winner of Wednesday night's quarterfinal game between Molloy and NYIT. The UB men will play at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday at C.W. Post University in Brookville, NY, as C.W. Post will serve as host for both the ECC men's and women's basketball tournament semifinals and finals this weekend.
 
Earlier on the Saturday, the UB women will open play at 12 noon against the winner of Wednesday night's contest between Dowling and St. Thomas Aquinas.

The 2010 East Coast Conference Basketball Tournament championships games will be held on Sunday March 7 at C.W. Post, with the women's game tipping off at 12 noon followed by the men's final at 2:30 p.m.