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Deborah Hoekstra has been named the MAC Player of the Week
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Deborah Hoekstra Named MAC Player of the Week
December 15, 2014 | Women's Basketball
Senior earns the honor after scoring 22 points in her first collegiate start
Bowling Green State University women's basketball standout Deborah Hoekstra has been named Mid-American Conference Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon (Dec. 15). Hoekstra, a senior, earns the honor for the first time in her BGSU career.
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Additionally, Hoekstra was named the conference's player of the week by the College Sports Madness web site as well. She also earns this honor for the first time in her Falcon career.
Hoekstra, a native of East Lansing, Mich. (East Lansing H.S.), set or matched career highs in multiple categories in the Falcons' lone game last week. Hoekstra made the first start of her collegiate career as the Falcons faced Saint Francis University on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 13), and she responded by scoring a career-high 22 points in BG's 76-62 win.
Hoekstra was 8-of-11 from the field, and hit 4-of-6 attempts from three-point range vs. the Red Flash. She tied career bests in field goals made and three-point field goals made, and also matched her career best with six rebounds. Hoekstra had three assists without committing a turnover, and also had a steal in the win.
On the year, Hoekstra is averaging 11.6 points per game, good for second on the team. She leads the Falcons in three-point field goals made, with 12.
Hoekstra was named the MAC Player of the Week for the East Division, while Toledo's Brenae Harris earned this week's MAC P-O-W award for the West Division.
In her career, Hoekstra is now averaging 20.0 points per game in neutral-site games played in hockey arenas where the capacity is less than 19,000. She had a then career-high 18 points in the Falcons' win over Monmouth in Springfield, Mass., last season (Dec. 1, 2013), and was named BG's Player of the Game in that contest, which was part of the Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge. Hoekstra made 15-of-19 shots from the field and went 7-for-10 from three-point range in those two games combined.
The Falcons of head coach Jennifer Roos are 5-2 overall after the win over Saint Francis, and BGSU will continue a stretch of five consecutive games away from home this weekend. The Brown and Orange will travel to Illinois for a pair of games, facing Illinois State on Friday evening (Dec. 19) before meeting Bradley on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 21).
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