Frump Garners Orange's Fifth CHA Award
2/16/2009 5:00:53 PM | Ice Hockey
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Freshman center Jessica Frump (Saugus, Calif.) was named the College Hockey America Rookie of the Week on Monday, February 16. Frump's decoration marks her first career CHA award and the third member of the Orange to receive a league honor this season. Syracuse has had five players pegged as weekly award recipients, including freshman Megan Skelly's (Taber, Alberta) three Rookie of the Week awards and junior goaltender Lucy Schoedel's (Ithaca, N.Y.) Defensive Player of the Week prize.
In a weekend in which the Orange secured a program-best four straight wins against Sacred Heart with back-to-back 5-1 victories, Frump led the team with a combined four points. On Friday night, the Saugus, Calif. native attained her second career game-winning goal. Both markers Frump has accounted for this season have counted as the game-clincher. Frump added two assists on Friday, denoting her first-career three point game.
In Saturday's victory, Frump recorded her first-career two-game pointstreak with the second assist on Syracuse's first goal to cap her four-point productivity. She also fired off a program-best eight shots on Saturday, 13 total in the weekend series, and finished with a combined plus/minus rating of +4.
Frump's first career goal came in her initial game with the Orange at Tennity Ice Pavilion. In the first home game in Syracuse program history, Frump lit the lamp against Sacred Heart to elicit a 10-0 blanking in the home opener on Halloween.
Through 18 games for Frump, she has recorded seven points (2 goals, five assists) and taken a majority of Syracuse's faceoffs.
The Syracuse ice hockey team has descended upon its final regular season series of the year when the Orange hosts Division II power, St. Anselm, on Friday, Feb. 20 at 7 pm for the final game at Tennity Ice Pavilion. On Saturday, Feb. 21, both teams will move downtown on Senior Day to commence battle at the Onondaga County War Memorial for the final regular season tilt of the year. The following Tuesday, Syracuse goes international for a tune-up exhibition match at McGill University, Canada's No. 1 rated team.
After the next three affairs, Syracuse will make its debut at the 2009 CHA Championship Playoffs in Erie, Pa. The tournament starts on Thursday, March 5.
