Post season-honors for two MCC men’s basketball players
Two members of the McCook Community College men’s basketball team have received post-season Region IX honors. Sophomore Madison Peaster was named third team all-Region IX and freshman Nate Coley received honorable mention.
Peaster, the Little Rock, Ark. native who transferred this year from National Park College in Hot Springs, Ark., started 29 games for MCC and led the team in scoring at 15.7 per game along with 5.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.4 steals.
He shot 49.6 percent from the field, 27.3 percent from the 3-point line and 69.0 percent from the free-throw line. He scored in double figures 24 times and topped the 20-point mark 10 times with his high-point game coming Feb. 28 at home against Trinidad State when he scored 28 points. His top rebounding game came at Otero College Jan. 17 when he grabbed 12 and scored 27 points.
Coley, also from Little Rock, Ark., was second on the team with 15.4 points per game, shooting 42.3 percent from the field, 28.2 from the 3-point line and 78.8 percent from the line. He averaged 2.9 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.1 steals.
Coley had 21 games with double-digit scoring, nine games with more than 20 and two games topping the 30-point mark with a season-best 36 points in a Jan. 21 win at home over Lamar. In that game he scored 28-first half points and finished shooting 13-for-23 from the field, making seven of 12 3-pointers, and going three of five from the line.
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