Martin Samarco Named MAC East Player of the Week

Jan. 8, 2007

Cleveland, Ohio - Bowling Green State University senior guard Martin Samarco was named MAC East Player of the Week after his career-high 43-point performance against Buffalo on Sunday. Samarco hit a game-winning three-pointer with 2.8 seconds left to give BGSU a 74-73 win in in its MAC opener. It is the second time this season and fourth time in his career he has received the honor.

MAC East Player Of The Week

Martin Samarco , Sr. , G , Bowling Green

Ypsilanti, Mich. / Belleville/Schoolcraft

Samarco scored a career-high 43 points and hit a three-pointer from the deep left corner with 2.8 seconds left to give BGSU a 74-73 win at home over Buffalo.  He hit on 16 (career-high) of 24 field goal attempts and 7 (tied career-high) of 12 from long distance. His performances tied for the 10th highest single game output by a Falcon. He also became just the third BGSU to score 40 points or more in Anderson Arena (Howard Komives, 5 times in 1964/Jay Larranaga vs. Akron, 1997).

MAC West Player Of The Week

Giordan Watson , Jr. , G , Central Michigan

Southfield, Mich. , Bridgton Acad. Maine

Watson led CMU to its first consecutive road victories since 2003 by tying a career-high with 30 points in CMU's 74-68 win at Eastern Michigan on Saturday.  After EMU erased an 11-point lead by the Chippewas in the second half and the Eagles led by three, Watson halted the EMU rally by scoring CMU's next eight points and taking the game over.  He sealed the win with a couple of free throws in the game's final seconds.  Watson also tied for team-high honors with five rebounds and dished out three assists while tallying a steal.  He was 9-for-11 from the line.

 

Additional East Nominees:

Romeo Travis, Sr., Akron, F, Akron, Ohio (St. Vincent-St. Mary)

Travis scored 10 of his 13 points in the final three minutes of the Zips' 77-72 loss at Ohio on Saturday. Travis scored eight unanswered points to pull UA within 72-70 with 1:54 left, then hit another jumper to make it 74-72 with 54 seconds to go. He also had a season-high nine rebounds, seven in the second half, and five blocks in 21 minutes off the bench against the Bobcats. The Akron, Ohio, native had 12 points, six rebounds and one blocked shot in 22 minutes as a starter in Tuesday's 70-61 Zips win at Youngstown State.

Eric Moore, So., Buffalo, G, Dover, NJ (St. Benedict's Prep)

Moore drained a school-record 11 three pointer en route to scoring a career-high 35 points against Bowling Green on Sunday afternoon. His 35 points was the third-highest scoring output in a road game in school history.

Omni Smith, Sr., Kent State, G, Chicago, Ill. (Eastfield (Tx.) CC)

Despite two losses last week, Smith averaged 21.5 points per game for the Golden Flashes.  He recorded his second career 30-point game- and second this season- in Tuesday night's loss at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and then led KSU with 13 points at Miami on Sunday.  He connected on 15-of-33 (45.5%) from the field in two games, including 6-of-12 from three-point range.  He also accumulated four rebounds, seven assists, and four steals in the two games.

Michael Bramos, So., Miami, G, Harper Woods, Mich. (Grosse Pointe North)

Bramos poured in a career-high 23 points to help Miami defeat Kent State in its Mid-American Conference opener, 65-63 ... his 23 points led all players. Bramos scored 10 of Miami's first 15 points and 16 of the RedHawks' 33 first-half points. Bramos went 8-of-17 from the field, including 4-for-6 (.667) from 3-point range. He also added four rebounds, two steals and a blocked shot in 37 minutes of play.

Bubba Walther, Jr., Ohio, G, Cincinnati, Ohio (Moeller)

Walther paced the Bobcats with 17.0 points in two games last week and added 3.0 rebounds and 1.5 steals per outing.  In a 77-72 victory against preseason MAC favorite Akron, Walther registered 16 points, four rebounds, three steals and went 6-of-6 at the line.  In a road loss to Marshall earlier in the week Walther recorded a team-high 18 points.  Walther shot 48-percent from the floor in the two games, and went was a perfect 9-of-9 from the free throw stripe.

Additional West Nominees:

Carlos Medlock, So., Eastern Michigan, G, Detroit, Mich. (Murray Wright)

Medlock helped lead EMU to a 1-1 record over the week averaging 19.0 points per game with 6 assists, three steals and four rebounds. Against North Dakota State, Medlock led the Eagles to its third consecutive victory with a team-high 23 points, just missing his career best of 24, connecting on 6-of-8 field goals including 3-of-5 three-point field goals to go along with a perfect 8-for-8 at the free throw line. Against Central Michigan, Medlock led the Eagles with 15 points.

 

Justin Ingram, Sr., Toledo, G, Lansing, Mich. (Waverly)

Grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds and scored the game-winning basket at the buzzer in the Rockets' 62-60 win at Ball State. Also scored nine points and dished out four assists in 36 minutes of action. The victory was UT's first in Muncie since the 2000-01 season and just second in the last 14 years.

Joe Reitz, Jr., Western Michigan, C, Fishers, Ind. (Hamilton Southeastern)

Reitz averaged 22 points and 8.5 rebounds per game on 17-of-20 shooting from the field and 10-of-15 shooting at the free throw line in two games last week. Reitz started the week by going a perfect 7-of-7 from the field on his way to 16 points and seven rebounds in just 13 minutes in a victory over Culver-Stockton. Reitz had an even better game on the road in the Mid-American Conference opener by scoring 28 points and pulling down 10 rebounds against Northern Illinois. Reitz hit 10-of-13 from the field and 8-of-12 at the free throw line for the Brown & Gold.

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