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South Easton, Mass. – The Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Year is Bentley Senior Forward Mary Rogers. Rogers, a native of Watertown, Mass., was named the Northeast-10 Conference Field Hockey Co-Player of the Year in 2005 and was the 2003 Freshman of the Year.

Rogers brings Bentley its seventh Player of the Year honor and is a three-time first team all-conference selection. In 2006, she led Bentley to a 13-3 league record and the second seed in the Northeast-10 Conference tournament. To date, Rogers has 15 goals, 13 in conference play, and seven assists for 37 points. This season, Rogers scored her 200th career point and became the number one scorer in Division II history (200) and the top goal scorer (83) in Bentley history.

Rogers’ teammate, Alyssa Sliney of Brewster, Mass., took home the Goalkeeper of the Year award and, in addition, was voted the Freshman of the Year. Sliney is the first player to ever receive both the Freshman of the Year and the Goalkeeper of the Year award during the same season.

The Northeast-10 Defensive Player of the Year is The University of Massachusetts Lowell midfielder Kim Villare. A senior from Chelmsford, Mass., Villare anchored the River Hawks’ defensive unit that held opponents to 18 goals during the regular season.

UMass Lowell’s Shannon Hlebichuk was named Coach of the Year, making it her fourth straight appointment.

The Northeast-10 All-Conference First Team included Rogers and Sliney of Bentley and teammates Lindsey Harrington and Heather Buda, Villare of UMass Lowell and teammate Sara Hohenberger and Lauren Jones, Caitlin Gleason, Kelly Latendresse and Courtney Campbell of Stonehill College, Ashley Webb of Saint Michael’s College and Bryant University’s Kristen Tighe.

The Northeast-10 All-Conference Second Team included Bentley’s Amanda Deppe and Cristina Sergi; Merrimack’s Laura Hansbury; Saint Michael’s Andrea Slaven and Tricia McCormick; Stonehill’s Aly Boulis, Brittany Dibble and Dani Ryder; Assumption College’s Ashley DeMain, Southern Connecticut State University’s Angela Caferelli and Bryant Laynie Sadler.

A complete list of the All-Conference teams follows.