Thomas More basketball standouts King, Owings receive weekly PAC honors on Monday

By Don Owen
NKyTribune reporter

Thomas More College picked up a pair of weekly basketball honors Monday from the President’s Athletic Conference.

Thomas More men’s basketball standout Damion King was named the PAC Player of the Week, while Saints star guard Abby Owings also earned the women’s weekly award.

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.

In Saturday’s 85-49 victory at Chatham, she scored a season-high 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting, going 6-of-10 from 3-point range. She also collected five steals in that win.

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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