Women's Basketball News

DONOHUE, VENNERA NAMED TO ALL-FREEDOM CONFERENCE TEAM
Battinieri Earns Rookie Of The Year Honors

DOYLESTOWN (PA) - Delaware Valley College's three guard offense paid dividends all season long and the trio of Moira Donohue (Philadelphia, PA/Cardinal Dougherty), Kim Vennera (Norristown, PA/Kennedy-Kenrick) and Brittany Battinieri (Eddystone, PA/Ridley) were honored by the Freedom Conference when its postseason accolades were announced on Thursday.

Donohue, a senior, was a first team, all-Freedom selection while Vennera, a sophomore, earned a spot on the second team. Battinieri's freshman campaign was capped by being named the Freedom Conference Rookie of the Year.

Donohue, who was a second-team honoree last season, led the conference and set a Delaware Valley single-season record for 3-pointers with 76 (2.9 avg). She also paced the squad and placed in the conference's top five in scoring (third - 17.2 avg), assists (third - 3.7 avg) and steals (fifth - 2.4 avg). She hit double figures in scoring in 23 of 26 games, including a career-best 33 points in a double-overtime win over Drew University.

Donohue's standout senior campaign also saw her break the school's all-time record for treys with 189. She finished third in school history in both assists (349) and steals (243) and was fifth in scoring with 1,336 points.

Vennera earned all-conference accolades for the first time in her career. An injury late in the season forced her to miss four games and slowed her down in the stretch run, but she still finished second on the team and placed in the conference's top 10 in steals (second - 2.5 avg), scoring (seventh - 13.8 avg), rebounding (seventh - 7.0 avg) and assists (eighth - 2.9 avg).

Vennera had three, double-doubles on the year and hit double digits in scoring in 16 of the 22 games she played in, including 12 straight at one point. Like Donohue, she had a 33-point performance during the season and it came in a come-from-behind victory over Freedom rival King's College.

Battinieri moved into the starting lineup after the third game of the season and averaged more than 30 minutes an evening in all but one contest the rest of the way. She averaged 10.9 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game and placed fifth in the Freedom Conference in 3-pointers with 48 (2.1 avg). She hit the double digit mark in scoring 14 times, including a career-best 21 in just 22 minutes of action in a victory over Lancaster Bible College.

Delaware Valley ended the 2007-08 season with a 13-13 overall record and a 7-5 mark (tied for third place) in the Freedom. The Aggies qualified for the conference playoffs for the sixth time in the last eight years and dropped a 78-72 decision to top-seeded and 23rd-ranked DeSales University in Wednesday's semifinals.