LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Slippery Rock University senior attacker Emily Benham was named Monday as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division Athlete of the Week for her performance in a pair of games last week.
 
Benham, a senior from Rochester, New York, earns her first PSAC weekly honor this spring after tallying 11 total points in two games last week and breaking the SRU single-season assist record in the process.
 
She opened the week by leading Slippery Rock to an upset win on the road at division-leading IUP that marked the Crimson Hawks' only loss in the first round of divisional games. Benham scored five goals and handed out two assists in that 14-9 win.
 
She followed that up with two goals and two assists in a home loss to Mercyhurst, which brought her season total to 26 assists and broke the former SRU record of 25 that was set by Kaytlin Callaghan in 2015.
 
Benham has 21 points in her last three games and now leads SRU with 59 points on the year. She is 12 points shy of tying the SRU single-season record of 71 that is owned by Callaghan. With five games left in the regular season, Benham will need to average 2.6 points per game to break the single-season scoring record.
 
Slippery Rock will kick off the stretch run with a pair of road games this week before closing the regular season with three consecutive home games. The Rock will visit No. 20 Seton Hill Wednesday for a 4 p.m. game and will then travel to Edinboro Saturday for a 1 p.m. game.
 
 
 
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