Posted: Mar 15, 2019
Post-season honors for three MCC men's players
Post-season honors for three MCC men's players
Three McCook Community College Men's basketball players have received post-season honors. Three were named to the All-Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference and one was tabbed for post-season honors in Region IX.Sophomore Peanut Cunningham received conference and region honors while freshmen Tyrek Battle-Holley and Mardrez McBride were named to the NCCAC team.
Cunningham a 6-3 guard from Lousiville, Kent., received honorable mention on the all-Region IX south team and also named first-team All-NCCAC. He was seventh in the south sub-region in scoring with 15.1 points, per game, 6.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists, shot 51.3 percent from the field and 33 percent from the 3-point line, and 66.4 percent from the free-throw line.
Tyrek Battle-Holley, a 6-2 guard from Jersey City, N.J., averaged 12.0 points 4.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game for the season. He shot 46.5 percent from the field 39.4 percent from the 3-point line and 74.8 percent from the line.
Mardrez McBride, a 6-2 guard from Augusta, Ga., was 10th in the region in scoring with 14.1 points a game, 4.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists. He shot 43.7 percent from the field, 33.6 percent from the 3-point line and 80.6 from the free-throw line.
ALL REGION TEAM: North Platte's Courtney Murrell and Jakub Karwowski received first-team All-Region IX South honors along with Western Nebraska's Jervay Green as players selected to the All-Region IX South first team.
Green led all scorers in the Region IX south with 23.6 points per game. He shot 54.7 percent from the floor, averaged 5.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game. He was second in the south with 55 steals and third in assists with 98. Murrell, a 6-0 freshman guard from Plano, Texas, led North Platte this season with 15.1 points per game sixth best in the south region. He shot 48.5 percent from the field, averaged 5.3 rebounds per game and 3.2 assists. Defensively he led all south players with 57 steals on the season. Karwowsk, a 7-1 sophomore center from Warsaw, Poland, averaged 9.7 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. He shot 70.6 percent from the field, tops among all players in the region. He was second in the south in rebounds per game and topped the south with 66 blocked shots this season.
The second team is led by a pair of Western Nebraska players in Dru Kuxhausen, who was second in the south in scoring averaging 19.1 points per game and Martin Roub, who was third in scoring with 16.8 points per game. Isaac Essein, Trinidad State, is the other second-teamer. He averaged 10.7 and 4.6 rebounds per game.
Third team members included: Jubrile Belo, Lamar Community College, Wesley Harris, Otero Junior College, and Nyk Lange, Northeastern Junior College. Players receiving honorable mention included: Brevin Brimble, Lamar Community College; Ian Kelly, Trinidad State; Sam Mack, Otero Junior College; Peanut Cunningham, McCook.
ALL NCCAC TEAM: North Platte Community College Coach Kevin O'Connor was named coach of the year. Three players from each team were nominated for the team. In addition to the three MCC players, first team members include: (from North Platte) Tim Johnson, Jakub Karwowski, and Courtney Murrell; (from Central Community College) Latrell Talley and Tre Crawford, and from Southeast Community College: Ray Harding and Ben Moss. Kenan Gray of Southeast received honorable mention.