Sanchez's 32-point game gives her Liga Mayor Player of the Week award

- March 19, 2024

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Melany Sanchez

19-year old guard Melany Sanchez (167-G-2004) had an amazing evening in the last round for ITD Santa Tecla 2nd team and receives a Hoops Agents Liga Mayor Player of the Week award for round 6.
She had the game-high 32 points adding five rebounds and four assists for Santa Tecla 2 in her team's victory, helping them to outclass, the league's bottom-ranked team Santa Ana 2 (#6, 0-7) with 51-point margin 95-44. Santa Tecla 2 maintains the 5th position in Salvadorean league. Too late to salvage the team, which is currently ranked such low. They already lost 4 games and recorded just one victory. In the team's last game Sanchez had a remarkable 66.7% from 2-point range. She just recently signed at Santa Tecla 2, being already a very valuable addition to the team. Sanchez has impressive league stats. She is in league's top in points (9th best: 15.3ppg) and averages solid 2.5spg.

Second best performed player last round was Yayma Boulet (193-C-1984) of top-ranked San Salvador. She is Cuban center in her first season at San Salvador. In the last game Boulet recorded an impressive 25 points and 9 rebounds. Of course she led San Salvador to another comfortable win outscoring slightly lower-ranked Batanecas (#2, 5-2) 95-57. It was definitely game of the week between two contenders to the title. San Salvador consolidated its place in the very top position of the standings. A very good start of the season for her team, which won so far all 6 games without any defeat. Boulet is a newcomer at San Salvador and quickly became one of team's most reliable players. She belongs to the best scorers in the league with 27.3ppg (#2). She also registered 11.0 boards per game.

Third place about best performers goes to center Rachel Contreras (184-C-1999) of league's second-best Batanecas BC. Contreras showcased her all-around game by recording 25 points, 14 rebounds (!!!) and 4 assists in the last round. Despite Contreras' great performance the Batanecas lost 57-95 to #1 ranked San Salvador. But her team cannot count on just a single player as she also needs help of the other teammates especially in such crucial game. The last thing Batanecas needs is to lose another game like this one. They lose more and more distance to the top teams. Their record is 5 victories and 2 lost games. Contreras has a great season in El Salvador. After only 5 games, she made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 29.0ppg (best scorer) and rebounds with 19.2rpg (#1 in league).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Jani Martinez (176-C-1980) of Santa Ana 2 - 9 points, 20 rebounds and 4 assists
5. Adriana Rivas (175-SG-1996) of San Salvador - 14 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists
6. Laura Rivas (171-SF-1999) of San Salvador - 15 points and 4 rebounds
7. Astrid Heredia (183-C-1996) of San Salvador - 7 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists
8. Arlenys Romero (176-PG-1984) of San Salvador - 17 points and 9 assists
9. Paola Campos (165-PG-2001) of Santa Tecla 2 - 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists
10. Nicky Ayala (171-F-2005) of Batanecas - 9 points and 10 rebounds

The Player of the week is selected based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc.
The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it's accuracy.
The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3*(REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) - 2*BSAG - 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4*(2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM - 3*(2FGPA-2FGPM) - 3*(3FGPA-3FGPM) - (FTA-FTM)

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Melany Sanchez

32 PTS

5 REB

4 AST