By Don Owen
NKyTribune reporter
Thomas More College picked up a pair of weekly basketball honors Monday from the President’s Athletic Conference.
King averaged 20.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists last week to help the league-leading Saints claim PAC road wins at Thiel and Chatham. Last Wednesday at Thiel, he finished with a game-high 23 points and six rebounds in a 75-61 victory.
For the week, King shot at a 59.1 percent clip (13-of-22) from the floor, 55.6 percent (5-of-9) from 3-point range and knocked down 83.3 percent of his free-throw attempts.
King is a junior guard from Winchester and a graduate of George Rogers Clark High School. He leads Thomas More in scoring (15.1 ppg) and assists (4.4 apg). The Saints have won eight straight games and are 15-4 overall, 11-1 in the PAC.
The Thomas More men play host to Bethany (W.Va.) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Connor Convocation Center. Bethany is tied for second place in the PAC with a 10-2 record, and the Bison are the only team this season to defeat Thomas More, a 72-65 win on Dec. 2 at Bethany, W.Va.
Owings, a senior and a graduate of Simon Kenton High School, averaged 19.0 points, 3.0 assists, 3.0 steals, 2.5 rebounds per game and shot 51.9 percent (14-of-27) from the floor while making a total of nine 3-pointers in the two wins.
Owings averages 14.3 points per contest and a team-leading 5.5 assists per game. She has also helped Thomas More (18-1 overall) win 17 consecutive games.
The Saints, ranked No. 5 nationally in the NCAA Division III poll, are 12-0 in the PAC and have not lost to a conference opponent since 2012.
The Thomas More women play host to Bethany (W.Va.) at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Connor Convocation Center.
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