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AWARD: Leonard is ASC East Player of the Week

November 20, 2015

ASC BASKETBALL(W): RICHARDSON, Texas (11/18.15) - Just one game into the 2015-16 season, the East Texas Baptist University women's basketball team has earned an American Southwest Conference weekly award. Senior April Leonard has been named the ASC East Division player of the week.

Leonard scored a career-high 30 points and had six three-pointers in the win against Southwestern University on Saturday, November 14. Leonard scored the majority of her 30 points with 19 in the second half and hit three 3-pointers. When SU pulled to within one with 4:37 remaining, Leonard hit a three-pointer for a four-point lead. Southwestern took the lead with 1:19 left to play but Leonard hit another three-pointer at the 1:06 mark to regain the lead. She then made one free throw with eight seconds left for a three-point lead (69-66) to put the game away.

This is the third time in her career that she has earned an ASC weekly award.