Former Viper Goaltender Hammond Named Papa John's Athlete Of The Week:

Former Vernon Vipers goaltender, Andrew Hammond has been named Papa John's Athlete of the week. Hammond has been named Papa John's Athlete of the week already five times this hockey season (Feb. 21, 2011, Feb. 7, 2011, Jan. 31, 2011, Dec. 6, 2010 & Oct. 18, 2010). Hammond and the Falcons are headed to Northern Michigan for the first round of the CCHA Tournament. Their last post-season meeting with the Wildcats came on March 13, 2001 when they won, 2-1, in overtime in a play-in game to advance to the CCHA Championship at Joe Louis Arena. Hammond played two seasons in Vernon (2007-09)

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Hammond Named Papa John's Athletes Of The Week

2/21/2011

Each week, the Bowling Green State University Athletic Department names the Papa John's Athletes of the Week, as selected by the athletic communications department based on their athletic performances from the previous week. This week's winners are hockey player Andrew Hammond and women's basketball player Tracy Pontius

Male Athlete of the Week

Andrew Hammond, a sophomore goaltender from Surrey, British Columbia, stopped 17-of-19 shots taken against him in Friday night's 2-2 tie with Northern Michigan. He had two key stops in the last twenty seconds of both the third and overtime periods, inducing a shootout. Against four shooters, Hammond stonewalled all four shot attempts against him helping the Falcons to a 1-0 shoot out victory in his lone appearance of the weekend. His numbers in 64:57 played include a 1.85 goals against average and a .895 save percentage.

Andrew Hammond's Player Profile:

http://www.bgsufalcons.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2996&path=mhockey