OFFENSIVE
Ashley Ingram, Texas Woman’s, FR, Kinesiology, F, Bridgeport, Texas, Bridgeport HS
Ingram helped lead the Pioneers to a perfect 2-0 week as TWU opened 2022 and conference play undefeated. Ingram averaged 20 points across the two games in just her second and third starts of the season. Against St. Mary’s, she scored a career-high 22 points, marking her second 20-point game of the season. In TWU’s game against St. Edward’s, the Bridgeport native finished with 18 points, hitting 5-of-8 from the field and 7-of-8 from the free throw line. Ingram shot 84.6 percent from the charity stripe and 56 percent from the field during the week.

DEFENSIVE
Karley Motschenbacher, West Texas A&M, FR, Business, G, Moorhead, Minn., Park Christian HS
Motschenbacher was a driving force behind a pair of stellar defensive performances for the Lady Buffs this past weekend as they moved to 4-0 in Lone Star Conference action and moved atop of the league standings following victories over No. 2 Texas A&M-Commerce and UT Tyler. The Moorhead, Minnesota product averaged 10.0 rebounds per contest and went 8-of-21 (38.1 percent) from the field, including 3-of-7 (42.9 percent) from behind the arc, to average 10.0 points per game. She also added seven assists and three steals. In Thursday’s win over the previously unbeaten Lions, Motschenbacher hit 5-of-11 from the floor with 12 points and a career-high 13 rebounds for her third double-double of the season.

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RICHARDSON, Texas – Following a first win of the season for the Angelo State women’s basketball team, the Rambelles’ Madeline Stephens has been named the LSC Offensive Player of the Week, the conference announced this afternoon.

The Lubbock native earns the award after posting her fifth-career double-double and her first double-double of the season in the Rambelles’ victory over St. Edward’s on Saturday in Brownwood. Stephens shot 7-9 from the field and was perfect from the free-throw line in five attempts to score 19 points and grab ten rebounds.

On the season, the second-year guard has started all ten games for the Rambelles, averaging 6.7 points per game and 8.9 rebounds per contest. She is shooting 53 percent from the floor and is tied for the team lead for blocks with five.

Stephens becomes the first player under head coach Alesha Ellis to win a weekly award and is the first Rambelle to win a weekly conference honor since Sawyer Lloyd and De’Anira Moore swept the defensive and offensive player of the week honors back on December 9^th, 2019.

Stephens and the Rambelles are back in action inside the Junell Center tomorrow against Huston-Tillotson, with that game scheduled to tip off at 5:30 p.m.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Davey O’Brien Foundation has announced the eight quarterbacks who make up the Davey O’Brien Great 8 list for week one of the 2021 college football season.

The quarterbacks on the season’s inaugural Great 8 list are: Notre Dame’s Jack Coan, Matt Corral of Ole Miss, UTSA’s Frank Harris, Tanner Mordecai of SMU, Charlotte’s Chris Reynolds, Desmond Ridder of Cincinnati, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud and Bryce Young of Alabama. The eight players combined for account for 32 touchdowns.

Any player named to a Great 8 list during the season who was not previously named to the Davey O’Brien Award’s Preseason Watch List is officially added to the Midseason Watch List and becomes eligible for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award. Following this week’s additions of Coan, Mordecai, Reynolds, Stroud and Young, 35 players now comprise the current list.

The Davey O’Brien Foundation was created in 1977, and the National Quarterback Award, the oldest and most prestigious college quarterback award, was first issued in 1981. Over its time, the Davey O’Brien Foundation has given away more than $1.2 million in scholarships and university grants to help high school and college athletes transform leadership on the field into leadership in life.

In 1938, O’Brien, who wore No. 8 as a star quarterback for TCU, became the first player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the same year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. For more information, visit www.DaveyOBrien.org.

Jack Coan, Notre Dame, Sr., 6-3, 214, Sayville, N.Y.·     Led the Irish to a 41-38 overtime win at Florida State by completing 26 of 35 passes for a program season opener-record 366 yards and four touchdowns.
Matt Corral, Ole Miss, Jr., 6-2, 205, Ventura, Calif.·     Amassed 436 total yards (381 passing, 55 rushing) and had both rushing and passing scores in a 43-24 victory over Louisville.
Frank Harris, UTSA, Sr., 6-0, 200, Schertz, Texas·     Was 20-for-32 passing for 280 yards and a touchdown and added 33 rushing yards and a score on eight carries in a 37-30 win at Illinois.
Tanner Mordecai, SMU, Jr., 6-3, 218, Waco, Texas·     Tied school and American Athletic Conference records with seven touchdown passes, and was 24 of 30 for 317 yards, in a 56-9 win versus Abilene Christian.
Chris Reynolds, Charlotte, Sr., 5-11, 192, Mocksville, N.C.·     Guided Charlotte to its first-ever win over a Power 5 opponent by completing 19 of 30 passes for 324 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 37 yards and a TD in a 31-28 win over Duke.
Desmond Ridder, Cincinnati, Sr., 6-4, 215, Louisville, Ky.·     Accounted for five touchdowns (four passing, one rushing), was 20-for-25 overall for 295 yards and carried six times for 31 yards as Cincinnati defeated Miami (OH), 49-14.
C.J. Stroud, Ohio State, R-Fr., 6-3, 218, Empire, Calif.·     Connected on 13 of 22 pass attempts for 294 yards and four second-half scores in his first collegiate start, a 45-31 victory at Minnesota.
Bryce Young, Alabama, So., 6-0, 194, Pasadena, Calif.·     Made his first start for the Crimson Tide and collected 344 passing yards and four touchdowns while completing 27 of 38 attempts in a 44-13 win over No. 14 Miami.

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