When she was a sophomore guard coming off the Orono High School girls basketball team’s bench, Sarah Marquez helped lead her Red Riots to a state championship.

Five years later, Marquez is looking back on another stellar season, this time as a collegiate player at Division III Drew University in Madison, N.J.

Marquez seems to be shaping up as an even better player in college, although she’s still gunning for the kind of team titles she won at Orono.

“Ideally, this year we thought we’d make the jump to the playoffs, but things happened and the season didn’t go how we thought,” Marquez said. “I think it’s very possible that we’ll have a better season next year.”

The sophomore behavioral science major led her team with 14.0 points, 1.7 steals, and 1.1 blocks per game.

“My scoring’s actually down a little bit from last year, but I didn’t play a full season last year,” Marquez said.

The 5-foot-9 guard-forward missed the last nine games of her freshman season after breaking her hand in practice, but durability wasn’t a problem this year. She not only played in all 25 games, she started each one as well.

The Rangers went 12-13 and missed the Freedom Conference playoffs. Despite losing two starters and three of the team’s top six players, Marquez is optimistic.

“It’s a tough league. We had three teams in our conference go to the NCAA Division III tourney,” Marquez said. “We were disappointed with how we did and it depends what we do in the offseason to get ready and be better players, but we have a lot of people coming back.”

Marquez also excelled academically as she was a Freedom Conference All-Academic selection.

Marquez played shooting guard, small forward, and even power forward last season.

It’s nice to be versatile, but Marquez hopes to have a more defined role next season. Still, the position shuffling didn’t adversely affect her stats as she also averaged 4.8 rebounds per game and finished sixth among conference leading scorers and second in 3-point shooting percentage (38.1 percent).

“I’m fairly comfortable with it now. I got so I started feeling pretty comfortable playing the post and getting into position to rebound,” Marquez said. “My coach thinks I’ll play small forward next year.”

Walsh is Kodak All-American

Colby College senior Sarah Walsh was one of 10 players named to the NCAA Division III Kodak-Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-America Women’s Basketball Team.

Walsh was also named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Region 1 team and the D3hoops.com All-Northeast Region team Wednesday.

The Catonsville, Md., native is the first Colby woman to be named to the Kodak team in 19 years. She also was the New England Small College Athletic Conference Player of the year after leading the NESCAC in scoring (17.8 points per game) and rebounding (11.6). She is the first Colby women’s player to get 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career.

Walsh was also earned NESCAC all-conference honors in all four of her seasons.

Injury sidelined Judges’ Magoon

Hampden Academy graduate Megan Magoon wound up her freshman year at Brandeis University on the injured list.

The freshman guard-forward started strong with eight points and two rebounds in her first game and played a total of two games before an injury ended her season.