GNAC Honors Hot-Shooting ex-SK Star Webb
February 1st, 2010 by cstarkFormer South Kitsap standout Derrick Webb has been in a zone for the Western Washington Vikings: 73 points in two games, making 14-of-19 shots from 3-point range. For good reason, he was named Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Week.
Here’s the press release from WWU:
WEBB NAMED GNAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Senior forward scores 73 points in pair of Viking wins
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Western Washington University men’s
basketball forward Derrick Webb has been named Great Northwest
Athletic Conference Player of the Week for Jan. 24-30.
A 6-foot-3 senior from Port Orchard (graduate of South Kitsap High
School), Webb scored 73 points, including 40 in a 112-78 home win
over Western Oregon and 33 in a 100-75 road victory against Montana
State Billings. His total was the third highest for two games
in school and GNAC history.
The 40 points versus Western Oregon were the most ever by a Viking
player on the school’s home floor. Webb made a school and
GNAC-record 10 3-pointers in that contest, going 10-of-12, and set
another school standard by making six straight treys.
In the two games, Webb was 14-of-19 from 3-point range, 73.7
percent.
On the season, Webb is averaging a team-best 16.9 points per game,
shooting 50.2 percent (119-of-237) from the field, including 40.4
percent (42-of-104) from 3-point range, and is hitting 80.5 percent
(91-of-113) at the free-throw line. He also is averaging 6.4
rebounds, second on the squad.
Webb’s 40-point performance tied the fourth-best effort in Western
history, and was just the seventh time a Viking had reached that
plateau.
Webb has scored double-figure points in each of his last 15 games and 19 overall, which leads the team.
Western, 19-3 overall and 6-2 in GNAC action, plays two
conference counters at home this week, entertaining Northwest
Nazarene on Thursday (7:30 p.m.) and Saint Martin’s on Saturday
(7:30 p.m.) on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium.
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