INDIANAPOLIS -  Hillsdale senior center Allie Dittmer (Eaton Rapids, MI / Eaton Rapids HS) was named the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week on Monday after two strong performances in league play.
 
The most recent week in the second half of the conference schedule had plenty of parity as No. 25 Findlay (13-2, 10-1 G-MAC) fell to Ursuline (11-4, 8-1 G-MAC), but Ursuline in turn lost to Hillsdale. The potential shakeup of the standings didn’t change at all with Findlay still having played two more league contests than Ursuline.
 
But Ursuline now owns the head-to-head tiebreaker against Findlay and a Feb. 10 meeting close to end of the regular season will bear that much more weight if each team can maintain its current course.
 
Similar to the men’s standings, three teams are bunched up in the middle with Cedarville at 5-2 and Ohio Dominican and Walsh even at 5-3. Hillsdale, Filling out the rest of the tournament field of eight teams is still unpredictable with plenty of games left to play out.
 
The Chargers (8-6, 6-4 G-MAC) went 1-1 on the week falling to Lake Erie and topping Ursuline with both games on the road. The Chargers hold the sixth spot in the conference standings after winning three of their last four contests.
 
Dittmer is the second Charger to receive the award in the 2017-18 season, joining junior forward Brittany Gray, who earned recognition in December.
 
In Hillsdale’s 71-64 loss at Lake Erie, Dittmer put on an offensive show. She was 11-of-16 from the field and went for 24 points. On top of that, she added 18 rebounds, 11 of which were offensive boards. Of her 24 points, 20 of them came in the second half and she scored 14 of the team’s 16 fourth quarter points, keeping the Chargers in the game late. She added two steals and two blocks in an all-around standout performance for Hillsdale.
 
Dittmer went on to follow that performance up with her second double-double of the week in an 84-68 victory at Ursuline, handing the Arrows their first conference loss of the season. She put up 27 points and 12 rebounds in the win, raising her average for the week to 25.5 points per game in the two contests.
 
The senior shot 74 percent from the field and 83 percent from the free throw line in this two-game span.
 
Dittmer also averages a double-double, ranking second in the conference in rebounds per game, one of just three players to average more than 10 boards per contest. She is the 10th-leading scorer in the conference, putting up 13.7 points per game.