Basketball, Cheer Receives Honors at MSC Banquets
Mar 13,2008 00:00
The Mid-South Conference handed out its annual awards tonight at the men’s and women’s basketball banquet and cheerleading competition at Pikeville (Ky.) College.
Fifteen Lindsey Wilson College student-athletes and one coach received conference honors. The Blue Raider women’s basketball team was also recognized for their share of the MSC regular season title.
Lindsey Wilson senior center Terran Duncan and senior guard Krystal Jackson repeated as all-conference selections. Freshman forward Viktoria Krell joined her senior teammates on the all-conference team giving the Blue Raiders three players on the 11-woman team.
Joining the Blue Raider trio on the all-conference team: Campbellsville (Ky.) University’s Courtney Dannis and Priscila Alves, University of the Cumberlands’ (Ky.) Amber Neace and Lissi Fuller, Georgetown (Ky.) College’s Kim Ingle and Jayme Gilbert, West Virginia Tech’s Kierra Wilkins and Pikeville’s Alice Daniel.
Fuller was selected as the Mid-South Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Year.
All-conference selections were voted on by the conference coaches.
Lindsey Wilson senior forward Moneta Anderson earned honorable mention all-conference.
Duncan, Jackson, senior Kara Osterfeld, junior Mary Jenna Nixon and sophomores Kristi Apple and Heather Clouse earned academic all-conference for maintaining a minimum 3.25 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and sophomore standing or above.
Lindsey Wilson women’s basketball coach John B. Wethington was selected MSC Coach of the Year for the second straight year after leading his Blue Raiders to the top-seed in this weekend’s MSC Tournament.
The award -- voted on by his peers -- is his second MSC Coach of the Year award and his fifth conference coach of the year award of his career.
Lindsey Wilson junior guard George White was the lone Blue Raider to earn all-conference honors.
White was joined by Pikeville’s Jeff Ferguson and William Harris, Cumberlands’ Chad Byron, Mike Gibson and Luke Fitzgerald, Campbellsville’s Nestor Colmenares and Bubba Long, West Virginia Tech’s Sam Robertson and Georgetown’s Gordon Chase, David Graham and Demetrius Guoins on the 12-man all-conference team.
Chase was selected as the Mid-South Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Year.
Lindsey Wilson senior guard Donte’ Williams earned honorable mention all-conference.
Georgetown coach Happy Osborne was selected as the MSC Coach of the Year after guiding his Tigers to a perfect 10-0 conference regular season record.
Following the banquet, Georgetown captured the MSC Cheerleading Championship. Cumberlands and Pikeville finished second and third in the one-night event held at Pikeville Gymnasium.
After the competition, Lindsey Wilson seniors Lindsey Stephens and Erin Williams were named to the 10-woman all-conference team.
Georgetown’s Lyndsey Penland was named MSC Cheerleader of the Year and Georgetown coach Lori Beth Mays named coach of the year.
Williams, seniors Shaunna Turner and Sarah Wilson and sophomores Nicole Parks and Ashley Russell earned academic all-conference for their work in the classroom.
The Mid-South Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments begins at 10 a.m. CT on Saturday at the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center in Pikeville.
The Lindsey Wilson women earned a bye into Sunday’s semifinals and will face the winner of Saturday’s Campbellsville and West Virginia Tech game. The Blue Raider men face host Pikeville at 3 p.m. CT on Saturday in the opening round.