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Chivonn Keppeler, a senior on the University of Saint Francis
women’s basketball team, earned Mid-Central Conference
Player-of-the-Week honors, the league office released today.
Keppeler helped the Lady Cougars improve to 10-1 on the
season and 3-0 in MCC play with wins over Huntington Nov. 29
and Grace Dec. 2.
The
Edgerton, Ohio, native, scored 30 points in the 66-56 win at
HU -- 20 of them coming in the second half. She hit 11-of-12
field goals and 8-of-9 foul shots in that game while
grabbing seven boards and blocking four shots. Keppeler
followed up that effort with an 11-point, 10-rebound
performance in a 64-50 victory at Grace for her third
double-double of the season. She hit 3-of-6 shots from the
floor and 5-of-7 free throw attempts versus the Lancers. For
the two games, she averaged 21.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and
2.5 blocks while shooting 78%.
This is
the first time Keppeler has been selected for the league
award.
"Chivonn
(Keppeler) was just about unstoppable [in 30-point effort
against HU] despite every defense they tried,” USF head
coach Gary Andrews said. “She played like an All-American
and is deserving of the recognition."
Keppeler and the Lady Cougars, who are 3-0 in league play,
would like to maintain their recent form against Goshen
College, which visits Hutzell Athletic Center tonight. The
Leafs come into the contest at 3-7 with an 0-2 league mark,
fresh off a narrow 53-50 loss to Spring Arbor Dec. 2.
Troyanna Scott and Ashley Hummer lead the team in scoring
with identical 9.2 per-game averages and Scott ranks fourth
in the MCC with 7.4 boards a night.
In
getting to 10-1 last week, USF achieved its best start in
Andrews’ six-year tenure at the helm of the program. Happy
about his team’s record, the coach knows there is nothing to
celebrate yet.
"We are better than we were at this time last year, but we
are far from where we were at the end of the season,"
Andrews said. "We have a long way to go, but we are finding
ways to win and that is the most important thing right now."
-- GO USF
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