Rookie Stephanie Stephens controls the boards!

On November 17, 6-3 Stephanie Stephen grabbed a career and game high 13rebs, including six on offensive, plus 5pts and 1blk as Danville Area Community College (DACC) scored a 58-36 away win at Lincoln Trail Community College (NJCCA D1), Illinois. Compatriots 5-11 Jillisa Briggs contributed 2pts, 2rebs & 1stl, while 6-3 Julissa Danglade added 3rebs & 2stls in a non-conference game. DACC competes in National Junior Community College Association (NJCCA) Division 2, Region 24.

The following day, Briggs filled the stats sheet with 2pts, 8rebs, a game high 2blks & 1stl in a 75-50 victory on the road against another D1 opponent Olney Central Community College, Illinois. Danglade chipped in with 2rebs & 1ast, while Stephen was limited to 1reb & 1stl. Briggs played 14mins, Danglade 9mins and Stephen 7mins as non-starters on the team. DACC next game Moberly Area Community College (NJCCA D1) and Rock Valley Community College (NJCCA D2) in Moberly, Missouri, on November 24 and 25, respectively.

Briggs is averaging 4.8ppg & 8.8rpg: 38.7%2FPM & 71.4%FT in six games. Stephen is averaging 1.4ppg, 3.6rpg: 25.0%2FPM & 75.0%FT in five games. Danglade is averaging 0.7ppg & 2.0rpg: 16.7%2FPM & 100% FT from six games.

Down in Big Spring, Texas, 6-1 center Alysa Connelly had 1pt & 1blk, in 6mins off the bench, as Howard College defeated rival Region 5 NJCAA D1 rivals Cisco College 57-34 in a non-conference home game on November 16. Two days after, Connelly grabbed five rebounds (6mins) as Howard give up a nine point lead mid-way through the final period in a close 57-59 loss to the visiting Lamar Community College. Howard next play Ranger Community College and Weatherford Community College at home on November 21 and 28, respectively. Connelly is averaging 2.8rpg & 0.8ppg: 7.1%2FPM & 50.0%FT from eight games.

In Memphis, Tennessee, 6-3 center Nairobi Lewis was limited to 1reb, in three minutes off the bench, as LeMoyne-Owen College defeated Edwards Walters College in a low scoring 34-24 non-conference victory on November 17. In their Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, NCAA D2, opening game, elder sister 6-2 Afrika Lewis contributed 2pts, 1reb & 1stl in 2mins off the bench as LeMonye suffered a narrow one-point loss, 65-64 to Benedict College on November 18. LeMonyne-Owen next play Tougallo College (Miss.) in a non-conference game on November 21 and Allen University (S.C.) in a conference game on November 25. Afrika Lewis is averaging 0.5ppg & 0.8rpg: 33.3%2FPM from 20mins in four games. Nairobi is averaging 1.5rpg & 0.5bpg from 13mins in four games.