WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Four Forester women’s basketball players received preseason All-Conference accolades as announced by the Crossroads League office earlier this month.

Junior Sarah Fryman (Huntington, IN, Huntington North HS) tops the list for Huntington as a preseason First Team All-Conference pick. The 5-9 forward averaged a team-best 14.1 points last season to go along with 3.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists. She sizzled the nets to the tune of 89.8 percent from the charity stripe to finish the year ranked second in the nation in free throw percentage.

For the second straight season, senior Brooke Saylor (Marion, IN, Eastbrook HS) was tabbed a preseason Second Team All-Conference honoree. After leading the nation in rebounding most of last year, the 5-11 forward corralled 11.8 rebounds per night to go along with 10.4 points to average a double double on the year.

Rounding out HU’s preseason All-Conference picks were senior Maddie Richer and sophomore Sam Hammel. The guard duo each earned a spot on the Honorable Mention Team.

Richer (Wauseon, OH, Wauseon HS) enters her final campaign for the Foresters having tossed in 9.6 points and handing out a team-high 3.0 dimes per contest in 2018-19. She canned a team-best 59 threes at a rate of 46.1 percent which landed her the ninth spot in NAIA Division II in three-point percentage.

As HU’s sixth man last year, Hammel, a 5-7 sophomore, quickly earned the respect of her Crossroads League peers as evidence by this season’s preseason honor. The Anderson native (Pendleton Heights HS) averaged 7.3 points in addition to tracking down 3.6 rebounds and swiping 1.6 steals per night as a freshman this past winter.

After finishing 9-9 in league play last season for the fifth spot in the CL regular season standings, Culler’s crew is picked to finish fifth in the standings again this year. Huntington kicks off its season on October 30 at Indiana Tech.