March 3, 2008

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--After averaging 21 points and five rebounds in a split at Penn and Princeton, Melissa Colborne was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Monday. This is Colborne's second straight Player of the Week selection and her fourth this season, the most in the League.

Colborne posted her seventh and eighth 20-point games of the season, her third and fourth consecutive, last weekend. In the 79-70 win over the Quakers on Friday, she tallied 22 points on 8-for-13 shooting and added six rebounds and two assists. Against Princeton on Saturday, Colborne was dominant in the first half, scoring 18 of Yale's 28 points. She finished the game with 20 points on 7-for-9 shooting, while also tallying four rebounds and two steals.

The Calgary, Alta., native is averaging 21 points, 4.5 rebounds and three assists over the last four games. She leads Yale and ranks second in the Ivy League with 16.2 points per game. Colborne also ranks among the Ivy League top 10 in field goal percentage (third, .485), free throw percentage (fourth, .736) and offensive rebounds (fifth, 2.44). In conference games, the sophomore guard/forward is averaging a league-leading 17.1 points and shooting a league-best .598 from the field.

The Bulldogs (8-17, 6-6 Ivy) have been eliminated from contention for the Ivy title, but will still have a say in what team represents the conference in the NCAA Tournament. Yale hosts Dartmouth (12-14, 9-3 Ivy) and Harvard (17-9, 10-2 Ivy) at the John J. Lee Amphitheater this weekend to conclude the 2007-08 season. First-place Harvard has a one-game lead over Dartmouth and Cornell (17-8, 9-3 Ivy) with just this weekend's games remaining.

Report filed by Joe Clifford, Yale Sports Publicity