Standout performances by basketball players from Mount Marty and Nebraska Wesleyan have earned them weekly honors in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.
Women – Alex Kneland, Mount Marty College (Guard)
Mount Marty guard Alex Kneeland is this week’s GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports women’s basketball player-of-the-week. Kneeland, a senior from Summit, South Dakota, guided the Lancers to a 2-0 record on the week scoring 31 points versus Dordt and 19 points versus Midland. Kneeland, a transfer, has scored 1,006 points in her college career with 151 of those points coming at Augustana University (S.D.) and 855 coming at Mount Marty. She ranks nationally in the top ten in four different offensive categories including scoring average and three pointers made. She currently sits sixth in NAIA DII with 20.1 ppg average and has connected on 55 three-pointers, seventh best in NAIA DII Women’s Basketball. Mount Marty is 12-6 to and 6-4 in league play.
Men – Trey Bardsley, Nebraska Wesleyan (Guard)
Nebraska Wesleyan guard Trey Bardsley is this week’s GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports men’s basketball player-of-the-week. Bardsley, a senior from Beatrice, Nebraska, scored had back-to-back games of 36 points on the week. In the upset of #18 Hastings he recorded his first double-double of the season with 36 points and 11 assists. He was 6-10 from 3-point range and also pulled down six rebounds against the Broncos. In a 92-88 road loss at Dordt he had 36 points and five rebounds. On the game he hit three 3-pointers and was 11-of-12 at the free throw line, his only miss was on purpose with 3 seconds left. Bardsley went over 1,400 career points and is now in the top 10 on the NWU career scoring charts. He leads the nation in scoring at 30.1 points per game. Nebraska Wesleyan is now 10-4 overall and 6-3 in the GPAC.
