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Mountain West Conference Names Women's Basketball Co-Players of the Week
New Mexico's Amy Beggin, UNLV's Shamela Hampton earn the award
Dec. 1, 2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - New Mexico junior Amy Beggin and UNLV senior Shamela Hampton have been named the Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Co-Players of the Week. Beggin averaged 18.7 points last week and helped the Lobos go 3-0 with victories over Utah Valley, William and Mary and Nebraska. Beggin, who has scored in double figures every game this season, scored 17 points and a season-high nine rebounds against Utah Valley and a season-high 20 points against William and Mary. She went on to lead all scorers against Nebraska with 19 points. The Maplewood, Minn., native dished out an average of five assists per game, was perfect from the free-throw line (13-of-13), shot 44.7 percent from the field (17-of-38) and, as a guard, averaged six rebounds in each game last week. Hampton, hailing from Colorado Springs, Colo., turned in the best two-game performance of her career last week, as she averaged a double-double of 27.5 points and 11.5 rebounds while leading UNLV to a 1-1 performance in the Lady Rebel Round-Up. Against Eastern Washington, in a one-point overtime loss (70-69), Hampton scored a career-high 31 points while shooting 60 percent from the floor, grabbing 10 rebounds and making a career-high 13 free throws at the line. In the Rebels' win over Cal State Fullerton, Hampton posted her league-high fourth double-double of the year with 24 points on 11-of-19 shooting and added 13 rebounds and a career-high five steals. For the week, she shot 58.8 percent from the floor (20-of-34) and made 15-of-23 (65.2 percent) from the free-throw line. This marks Beggin's first career weekly honor and Hampton's second.
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