Jackets’ Carpenter Named Heartland POTW (12/13/06)

BILLINGS, MT – Montana State-Billings women’s basketball player Alira Carpenter was named the Heartland Conference Player of the Week for the week of December 4-10.  The honor, Carpenter’s first for the season, marks the second POTW award overall for the Lady Jackets.

Carpenter, a sophomore guard from Lewistown, Montana averaged 21.0 points per game in leading MSUB to its first consecutive wins of the year.  On December 6, she scored a career-high 28 points in an 80-67 win over Montana State-Northern.  She was 10-of-18 from the field, 3-of-3 from the line, and 5-of-9 from three point range, also a career-high.  In the game against St. Martin’s on December 9, Carpenter scored 14 points in the 84-68 road win.  She was 6-of-14 from the field and made two 3-pointers.  For the week Carpenter shot 50 percent from the field, 41.2 percent from behind the arc, and averaged three assists and two steals a game.

The Lady Jackets host University of Mary (3-5) Friday, December 15 at Alterowitz Gymnasium.  Tip off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.