MSU-N's Edwards named Frontier POW, again

To no one’s surprise, Montana State University-Northern senior A’Jha Edwards has been named Frontier Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week, again.

Edwards, the 6-5 senior from Tuscon, Arizona, has now been named the league’s player of the week four times this season. She was also the NAIA National Player of the Week last week, and will be a candidate to take that honor again when it’s announced later today.

In then No. 15 Northern’s two conference wins last weekend, Edwards averaged an impressive 23 points and 17 rebounds, while also shooting a staggering 77 percent from the field.

Last Friday night, in Northern’s blowout win over Montana Tech, Edwards poured in a game-high 27 points on a school-record 11-of-12 shooting. She also grabbed 16 rebounds and had two blocked shots. Not to be outdone, she returned to the floor Saturday night and was dominant against then No. 12 Lewis-Clark State. Despite being double-teamed for much of the game, Edwards scored 19 points on 8-of-14 shooting while pulling down 19 rebounds.

For the season, Edwards is averaging 17 points and 12 rebounds per game. She also has an incredible 13 double-doubles in Northern’s 18 games thus far.

Also nominated for the women’s award was, Lindsey Abramson of the University of Great Falls, Kayla DeWitt of Montana Tech, Tanis Fuller of Lewis-Clark State, Kalee Junkermier of Carroll College, Whitney Mitchell of Rocky Mountain College and Tia Pappas of Westminster College.

Meanwhile, Montana Tech senior Antonio Snow was named the Frontier Men’s Player of the Week. Snow is a 6-2 guard from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Orediggers opened Frontier Conference play with two road wins. Montana Tech downed the University of Great Falls 75-66 and Montana State-Northern 76-67. The victory at Northern was the Orediggers first win in Havre since 1999.

Snow averaged 17.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists and one steal per game. He was 11-of-24 from the field, 4-of-7 in 3-point fields and 9-of-12 from the free-throw-line.

Also nominated was, Casey Evans of Westminster College, T.J. Harris of the University of Great Falls, Trevail Lee of Montana State-Northern, Taylor Longo of Rocky Mountain College, Stephen McCall of Montana Western, Zach Taylor of Carroll College and Jacob Wiley of Lewis-Clark State.