INDIANAPOLIS – In a week loaded with standout performers, Davis & Elkins senior guard Aliyah Dukes (Clemson, SC/D.W. Daniel HS) was selected Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week on Monday.
 
Dukes has helped keep the Senators (11-15, 7-13 G-MAC) in the playoff hunt as winners of five straight, including a 3-0 record sported this past week against Concord, Trevecca and conference tourney qualifier Kentucky Wesleyan.
 
D&E is in contention for the final Great Midwest Championship bid remaining while the regular-season title and conference host site also is up in the air with just a handful of games left. The Senators are tied with Malone while trailing Lake Erie by a full game.
 
LEC beat Ohio Dominican and fell to Cedarville as Kayla Gabor had a triple double and single-game conference record 16 assists. LEC is currently in position to make the playoffs with games against Walsh and Malone at home looming this week.
 
Findlay remains in the mathematical race to host the conference tournament after toppling Cedarville and Ohio Valley. Anna Hintz averaged 27 points and 11 rebounds while making 21-of-27 shots from the floor.
 
Dukes went off in a torrid three-game stretch by averaging 31 points, including a 43-point outburst with 11 three-point field goals made on Monday.
 
Her single-game scoring total matched Cedarville’s Raegan Ryan (43 vs. Urbana – Dec. 2014) for the second most points in conference history. Central State’s Demetria Nunley-Lash holds the all-time record with 45 vs. Kentucky Weselyan, also in 2014.
 
The 11 three-point baskets from deep also tied the single-game conference record after Cedarville’s Baylee Bennett was the original record holder vs. Trevecca earlier this season.
 
The lefty-shooting Dukes went on to score 23 against Trevecca and 27 more against Kentucky Wesleyan while shooting over 46 percent from deep on the week (18-of-39).
 
Dukes is the current league leader in scoring at 21.2 points per game and has led D&E in scoring for 19 of the team’s 26 games.
 
As a junior, Dukes averaged 7.7 points per game. Her increase in offensive production has included scoring in double figures for 23 games she has started in. Dukes has 15 games in which she has scored 20 or more points and two games where she has scored over 30.