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 Turner, Battle and
Uwaga Earn All-ASC
Awards for 2008-09
Season
Photo: Ralph Turner
earned second team
All-ASC West for drives
like this in last
month's home game vs.
Concordia.
Junior Ralph Turner,
sophomore Riley Battle
and freshman Mike Uwaga
all earned All-ASC West
Division honors for
their play this year.
Turner (Boerne, TX)
earned second team
All-ASC West Division is
in his first year as a
Mountaineer after
transferring from
Cal-Los Angeles.
He made a big impact
right from the start of
his SU career as he was
second on the team
overall in scoring at
just under 15 points per
game, first in assists
(3.6/game) and third in
steals (1/game) and was
one of the ASC's best
free throw shooters
(86%). Even though
he played the point
guard spot most of the
year, he was just edged
out for the team lead in
rebounding (6/game).
It was in the most
important games -
conference contests -
that Turner stepped up.
His statistics for ASC
games were better in
just about every
category possible.
His highest scoring game
of the season was a
31-point effort in a
96-91 home loss to
Concordia-Texas on
February 12th, but the
best game of his
Mountaineer career may
have been on December
18th at TLU when he
scored 22 points,
grabbed 9 rebounds and
handed out 7 assists.
Battle (Waxahatchie, TX)
earned honorable mention
All-ASC West after
leading Schreiner in
scoring at 15.3 ppg.
His highest scoring
output of the year was
31 points which he had
on two occasions.
The first was on January
17th in an overtime loss
at McMurry - a game that
also saw him grab seven
rebounds - and the
second came 12 days
later in a home win over
Howard Payne.
Uwaga was named to the
ASC West All-Freshmen
team after a season in
which he battled nagging
injuries throughout, but
when he was on the
court, his impact was
evident to opponents and
fans alike, whether he
scored any points or
not. The 6'6
Dallas native was a
force in the paint and a
game changer for anyone
looking to go the
basket. His five
blocks vs. Texas State
was a season high but
his best game could have
been in that Howard
Payne home win when he
had 10 points, 15
rebounds, 4 steals and 2
blocks. For the
season, he averaged just
under four points, over
six rebounds, led the
team in steals (31) and
had 2/3 of the teams
total of blocks (40). |
