MVC Seventh Week Stars

Advent Week Award Winners

(St. Louis, MO) – Missouri Valley Conference seventh week stars are breaking barriers and winning games. High scoring players on successful teams are promoting team benefits and making a name for themselves.

One player has a stranglehold on the league’s ‘Freshman of the Year’ award.

Seventh Week Players of the Week

Alston Mason and Katelyn Young are starting to take center stage among Valley scoring leaders. Murray State’s Young is the Valley’s leading women scorer and Missouri State’s Mason is climbing the scoring leadership among the men.

While Young leads the Valley women in scoring (20.1 ppg) this week’s award is her first of the season. She scored 29 points during a Racers’ win over Western Carolina and recorded her fourth double-double. The Valley’s fifth leading rebounder (8.1 per game) is the women’s ‘Player of the Week’ and the Racers have won six straight games.

Mason averaged 26.5 points and seven assists as the Bears won two games. This week’s men’s ‘Player of the Week’ is now fourth in the Valley with an 18.8 scoring average. He is ninth in assists (3.7 per game) and averaging over twenty points per game over his last seven games.

Valley Newcomers

Another Missouri State guard is starting to get noticed. Lacy Stokes has earned three of the last four ‘Newcomer of the Week’ awards. Missouri State has won three straight games and Stokes averaged 14.5 points per game and led the Bears in assists and steals. Stokes is the only Valley womens’ players to earn more than one ‘Newcomer’ award.

Evansville’s Ben Humrichous earned his second ‘Newcomer of the Week’ award. Humrichous sparked the Purple Aces to a pair of wins while averaging fifteen points and 6.5 rebounds. He is ninth among Valley scorers and in shooting percentage and fourth in three-point percentage.

Seventh Week Rookies

Evansville’s Chuck Bailey III claimed his fourth ‘Freshman of the Week’ award. UE’s star rookie averaged fifteen points and five rebounds during the Purple Aces’ two victories. Bailey is the Valley’s seventh best free throw shooter (.829).

Ironically Illinois State has the second-best record among Valley women (7-3) but this week’s ‘Freshman of the Week’ is the Redbirds’ first weekly award winner. Shannon Dowell helped the ‘Birds to a regional win over Saint Louis by scoring 13 points, grabbing four rebounds and handing out three assists. Those were career high totals in each category.

 

Editor: Cover photo of Chuck Bailey III courtesy of gopurpleaces.com.