Women's Basketball

DAILY NEWS: Hurley off to fast start for St. Joe's

Posted: Dec 06, 2021

Former Pentucket basketball standout Angelica Hurley of Groveland is wasting no time making her mark early on in the winter season for the Saint Joseph's (Maine) college women's team.

The do-it-all sophomore is averaging 10.4 points, 9.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.4 steals for game as a starter for the red-hot Monks (6-1). Hurley was solid in her pandemic-shortened freshman season, averaging 9.5 points and 7.0 rebounds in the six games that were played.

But so far this winter, her game has gone to another level.

Against Husson, the 5-foot-8 guard had 24 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists in 45 minutes to help the Monks to a 98-92 win. Arguably her best performance, however, came a week later at Southern Maine when she dropped 21 points in 35 minutes on 6-of-10 shooting, grabbed 15 boards and dished out 5 assists while coming away with 5 steals.

The Monks are coming off a win over Albertus Magnus on Saturday and will be at Regis on Wednesday (8 p.m.).

Another former Pentucket standout, Mackenzie Currie, is a freshman forward on the team who has seen action in four games.

And then, of course, assistant coach Kelsi McNamara is a former Green and White legend who is also St. Joe's all-time leading scorer.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.