Scots’ Jones named MWC Player of the Week

Release Date: December 10, 2002

MONMOUTH, Ill. – Melissa Jones (Port Byron, Ill./East Moline), Monmouth College’s record-setting senior forward, has been honored by the Midwest Conference as its Women’s Basketball Player of the Week.

The Scots standout has had many great games in her career, but none better than last Wednesday's effort against a Rockford College team that featured her sister, Paula. Jones notched her 1,000th career point early in the contest and kept scoring all game long, ultimately netting her school-record 36th and 37th points on a 10-foot jumper at the buzzer to give Monmouth a thrilling 70-69 victory. She added a career-best 18 rebounds in the contest.

Jones then posted team-highs in points (14), rebounds (7) and steals (3) in the Scots MWC opener against Knox on Saturday, a 63-51 victory.

For the week, Jones averaged 25.5 points, 12.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals. She was 19-of-32 from the field (59 percent).

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