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Jim Stout's Northeast Notebook

Posted April 24, 1999

EAST RUTHEFORD, N.J. -- It was a fitting ending to an outstanding second half of the season. Western Connecticut State men's center Juma Jones was named this week to an all-star team that he wasn't even nominated for.

Good news travels fast and far on its own sometimes.

Jones, the senior from Hartford who keyed Western's second-half flourish, was honored Wednesday night as a first-team Division III all-star by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association. The MBWA made its presentation to Jones at its 66th annual awards ceremony and banquet at the Meadowlands Pegasus West.

Though Western is a member of the NCAA Northeast region and rarely competes against Metro/Atlantic region teams, its players are still technically eligible for the New York Met Writers awards. Prior to its entry into the Little East Conference in 1993, Western was considerably more active with teams in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey.

"I had kind of forgotten about that organization," said Western coach Bob Campbell. "With all our focus on the Little East and New England, we just don't cross paths that much with that (Metro) region anymore. It was nice that word got around about Juma, and that they thought enough about him to vote him onto the first team."

Jones' play over the second half of the season helped rally Western from a 7-10 record late in January to the championship of the Little East and into the NCAA tournament. The Colonials (18-11) won 11 consecutive games before falling to Connecticut College in the second round of the NCAAs. Conn College eventually reached the Division III Final Four in Salem, Va., and placed third in the nation.

Jones averaged 18 points a game during Western's 11-game winning streak. He finished the season with a 15.4 points per game average and as the school's 15th all-time leading scorer with 1,079 points. He averaged 7.5 rebounds per game during 1998-99 and closed out his career with a 56.5 shooting percentage from the floor.

Heading the list of Division III men's honorees was Kings Point senior forward Sean Bradley, who was named Metropolitan area player of the year. Also named to the first team was William Paterson guard Horace Jenkins, who joined a struggling team at the semester break and led the Pioneers to the Division III Final Four. William Paterson coach Jose Rebimbas was named coach of the year.

Top Met region honors in Division I went to St. John's swingman Ron Artest (player of the year) and to first-year coach Mike Jarvis of the Red Storm (coach of the year).

All-Met Women's Honorees
Player of the year: Jehan Clark, New York University
Coach of the year: Janice Quinn, New York University

All-Met Women's All-Stars (one team):
Stephanie Arrigo, William Paterson
Tracy Derevjanik, College of Staten Island
Shannan Fish, Mount Saint Mary
Tanika Hurtt, Hunter
Wykemia Kelley, Montclair State
Marlena Lawrence, Montclair State
Tiffany Pope, Medgar Evers

All-Met Men's Honorees
Player of the year: Sean Bradley, Kings Point
Coach of the year: Jose Rebimbas, William Paterson

All-Met Men's All-Stars
First team
Sean Bradley, Kings Point
John Cali, Staten Island
Juma Jones, Western Connecticut
Scott Holloway, Baruch
Bill Timony, FDU-Madison
Horace Jenkins, William Paterson

Second team
Anthony Peeples, Montclair
Alonzo Thomas, Kean
Gunner Winston, NYU
Chris Slattery Manhattanville
Neil Edwards, York
Joe Henderson, Hunter

Third team
Jose Perez, New York Maritime
Aaron Walker, Medgar Evers
Bill Felci, Staten Island
Joe Liberto, Baruch
Yussie Gev, Yeshiva
Chris Peterson, Brooklyn

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