WEST HAVEN — University of New Haven women’s lacrosse student-athlete Mallory Ferrandiz and baseball student-athlete Tom Rombilus have been named the Charger Bulletin Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sunday, May 3, 2009.

Ferrandiz helped lead the Chargers women’s lacrosse team to the program’s first-ever Northeast-10 Conference Championship and NCAA appearance. She was named to the All-Northeast-10 Conference First Team, the Northeast-10 Conference All-Championship Team and was named the Northeast-10 Conference Championship Most Outstanding Player. She tallied eight goals and four assists in four games the past two weeks. She also grabbed 12 draw controls, including eight in the Chargers NE-10 Championship semifinal matchup.

Ferrandiz leads the Chargers into the NCAA Division II tournament on Saturday, May 9 at C.W. Post. Game time is still to be determined.

Rombilus helped led the Chargers baseball team into their first-ever Northeast-10 Conference Championship. New Haven clinched the fifth seed in the tournament and take on fourth seed Bentley University today for a spot in the semifinal round.

Rombilus led the Chargers with a .439 batting average in four wins. He tallied 18 hits in 41 at-bats. He drove in six runs and scored eight over the past two weeks. He tallied a two-week high four hits on Thursday, April 30 against Merrimack.

The Charger Bulletin Athletes of the Week are announced every other week in the Charger Bulletin and on the Chargers website at www.newhaven.edu/athletics.