Scoring Milestone Earns Escobido ECAC Honor
Ithaca College women's basketball senior
Jenn Escobido (Lisbon, Conn./Norwich Free Academy) led the team in scoring in back-to-back Empire 8 victories and also reached a career milestone last weekend. She was named Corvias Eastern College Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 20-26. Ithaca's victories over Stevens and Hartwick moved the Bombers into a first-place tie in the conference standings. Escobido scored her 1,000th career point in the victory over Stevens.
Escobido led the Bombers with 24 points, a career-high total, in Friday's 82-65 win over Stevens. She added two assists, four steals and eight rebounds in that victory. With her seventh point in that game, Escobido became the 12th player in Ithaca women's basketball history to score 1,000 career points. Escobido again paced the Bombers on Saturday, with 18 points on 8-for-11 shooting in a 70-59 win over Hartwick.