This week's South Carolina Army Newberry College Players of the Week are junior field hockey player
Payton Keeler (Bridgeville, Del.) and graduate school wrestler
Kale Schrader (Carthage, Mo.).
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Keeler had a spectacular week. She led the Wolves to the national championship game and was named the winner of the Elite Scholar Athlete award for NCAA Division 2 Field Hockey for achieving the highest-grade point average at the national championship site. Keeler scored a goal in Newberry's 3-0 win over West Chester in the national semifinals and was named to the national all-tournament team.
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Schrader is ranked #7 in the country at 285 pounds by The National Wrestling Coaches Association had another solid week pinning Daniel Silver of Emory & Henry in 21 seconds put the exclamation point on the Wolves 57-0 victory over the Wasps. The previous week he won his weight class at the King Open and won by fall and sudden victory in Conference Carolinas dual meet victories over Emmanuel and Montevallo.
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