Women’s Weekly Awards in OVC & MVC

Season Ending Awards Coming Into Focus

(St. Louis, MO) – Some season ending awards are coming into focus as we see the women’s weekly awards in the Ohio Valley and Missouri Valley Conferences. Illinois State’s DeAnna Wilson, Missouri State’s Lacy Stokes, Eastern Illinois’ Macy McGlone and Western Illinois’ Raegan McCowan have solidified end-of-year honors.

Those players are racking up weekly honors like Taylor Swift mentions during football games.

Women’s Weekly Awards – Top Players

EIU’s McGlone earned her fifth OVC ‘Player of the Week‘ award for leading the Panthers (9-12, 6-2) to a pair of league wins and accumulating 44 points and thirty-two rebounds. Her double-double and game-winning-shot against Tennessee Tech was huge, but she scored 30 points and hauled in 19 rebounds during an overtime win against Tennessee State.

McGlone is now second nationally with sixteen double-doubles.

Illinois State star Wilson has claimed three of the last five MVC ‘Player of the Week‘ awards. Last week she averaged twenty-five points and 7.5 rebounds as the Redbirds swept the Valley’s Iowa-based teams. Drake’s loss was its first in league play. Wilson has topped the twenty-point mark six times.

Newcomers

Southern Indiana is still undefeated (13-5, 8-0) in OVC play and one of the reasons is the play of Ali Saunders. She scored 14 points during USI’s only game last week and this week’s OVC ‘Newcomer of the Week‘ added five rebounds and a season high seven assists. Ironically, Saunders’ women’s weekly award is the just the second one received by a Screaming Eagle player.

Lacy Stokes, on the other hand, just received her fifth MVC ‘Newcomer of the Week‘ award. The Missouri State guard showed off her complete game by averaging 10.5 points, six assists and 3.5 rebounds while the Bears split a pair of games. Stokes is seventeenth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio.

Women’s Weekly Rookie Awards

Western Illinois’ Raegan McCowan has a stranglehold on the the OVC’s ‘Freshman of the Year‘ award. The Lebanon, Missouri native has earned nine ‘Freshman of the Week‘ honors. This week she averaged twenty-one points and eleven rebounds as the Leathernecks split their two games.

Murray State’s Haven Ford is the second Racer to receive an MVC ‘Freshman of the Week‘ award. Zoe Stewart was so-named during week four of the season. Ford scored a career high seventeen points in one game and then topped that total with 19 in the next. The high-scoring Racers face rival Belmont on Friday.

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