Women's Basketball Ready for Three-Day MSU Invitational

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11/19/2009 4:58:28 PM

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MOREHEAD, Ky. - The Morehead State women's basketball team has a busy weekend ahead as the Eagles are hosting the MSU Invitational on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Presbyterian, Lipscomb and Winston-Salem State are the other participants with MSU opening on Friday night at 7 p.m. against Presbyterian.

The Eagles battle Lipscomb on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. after WSSU and PC play at 1:30 p.m. The Eagle men will complete a triple-header in Johnson Arena that daywhen they host ULM at 7:30 p.m. On Sunday, the tournament ends with PC and Lipscomb tipping off at 1 p.m. and the Eagles playing WSSU at 3:30 p.m.

Morehead State will be searching for its first win of the 2009-20 season after losses to SIU Edwardsville and Kentucky. Of the three teams, MSU has only ever faced Lipscomb and that was just once. In 2000-2001 in a tournament in Charleston, S.C., the Lady Bisons defeated MSU 91-81. Chynna Bozeman leads MSU in scoring so far in 2009-10 with 15.5 points per game. Freshman Ashar Harris has also been impressive with 9.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. She leads the conference in offensive rebounds at 6.0 per outing.

Presbyterian is 0-2 under second-year head coach Ronny Fisher. Lipscomb is under the direction of long-time head coach Frank Bennett. The Lady Bisons are 1-2. WSSU is 0-2 on the season. The Lady Rams have struggled on offense, averaging just 32.0 points in their first two contests.

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Pepsi Athletes of the Week

Ty Proffitt

Men's Basketball

Men's Basketball senior Ty Proffitt recorded a team-high 18 points on 5-of-6 from the field, 4-of-5 from three-point range and 4-of-4 from the free-throw line in Tuesday’s 75-69 victory over Norfolk State.

He then registered a season-best 20 points on 6-of-10 from the floor, 4-of-7 from long range and 4-of-4 from the charity stripe in Saturday’s 56-50 win over Tennessee Tech.

The guard, who hails from London, Ky., connected on 69 percent from the field (11-of-16) and 67 percent from downtown (8-of-12) in addition to making all eight free-throw attempts. He also committed just four turnovers in 65 minutes last week.

Proffitt was also named Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week for his performances this past week.

Brooke Helms

Women's Tennis

Junior women's tennis player Brooke Helms went undefeated in singles action over the weekend, as she tallied two individual match wins.

Helms clinched the come-from-behind 4-3 victory over Big East power West Virginia, a 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 at number five singles. Helms then was only one of two Eagle netters to score a win in a 5-2 loss at Duquesne, winning 6-3, 6-4 at number five.

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