Sports

How local D-1 players performed

College Football

▪ AUSTIN SEIBERT (Oklahoma K/P, Belleville West): Earned second team All-Big 12 selection as a punter. Seibert finished 17-22 on field goals with a long of 46. He also punted 51 times on a 42.4 yards per average with a long of 58 yards and 20 punts landing inside the 20.

▪ BRIAN HILL (Wyoming RB, Belleville West): Earned second team All-Mountain West honors as a running back. Hill finished with 1,631 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns. Hill also caught 20 passes for 132 yards.

▪ TERRY BECKNER (Missouri DT, East St. Louis):Earned All-SEC freshman honors as a defensive tackle. Beckner finished with 27 tackles, 8 tackles for a loss, 3 sacks and 1 fumble recovery.

▪ DARIUS JACKSON (Eastern Michigan RB, Sparta): Earned third team All-MAC selection as a running back. Jackson finished with 1,088 yards and 14 touchdowns. He also caught 21 passes for 201 yards and two touchdowns.

▪ DANIEL WILLIAMS (Jackson State WR, East St. Louis): Earned All-SWAC honors as a wide receiver. Williams finished the season with 54 catches for 802 yards and seven touchdowns. Williams averaged 15 yards per catch and 73 yards per game.

▪ CHASE ALLEN (Southern Illinois LB, Belleville East): Earned second team All-MVC honors as a middle linebacker. Allen finished with 120 total tackles, 8 tackles for a loss, 2.5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries to go along with 3 blocked kicks.

▪ MICHAEL FORD (Southeast Missouri State DB, Marquette): Earned second team All-OVC honors as a defensive back. Ford finished the year with 44 tackles, 2 tackles for a loss, 5 interceptions, 7 pass break ups and a touchdown.

▪ DYLAN CHATMAN (Eastern Illinois DB, Belleville West): Earned second team All-OVC honors as a defensive back. Chatman recorded 29 tackles, 1 tackles for a loss, 4 interceptions, and 7 pass break ups.

College Basketball

▪ MALCOM HILL (Illinois, Belleville East): Scored 20 points to go along with 7 rebounds and five assists in the 69-64 win over Yale. Hill also scored 22 points with four rebounds in the 83-79 win over Illinois-Chicago.

▪ ROOSEVELT JONES (Butler, O’Fallon): Scored 14 points to go along with four rebounds and three assists in the 93-66 win over VMI. Jones also scored 21 points with 10 assists and 7 rebounds in the 94-86 win over Tennessee.

▪ GARRET COVINGTON (Western Illinois, Edwardsville): Scored 11 points with four assists in the 64-57 win over Eastern Illinois.

▪ ARMON FLETCHER (SIU Carbondale, Edwardsville): Scored three points and three rebounds in the 74-66 win over North Texas. Fletcher also scored 10 points with 7 rebounds in the 76-74 loss to SIUE.

▪ DARIUS AUSTIN (Missouri-Kansas City, Cahokia): Scored four points and three rebounds in the 72-67 win over Mississippi State.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

▪ KATIE HEMPEN (Highland, Arizona State): Scored 14 points with 6 rebounds in the 70-49 win over Columbia. Hempen also scored nine points and two rebounds and two assists in the 61-54 win over Syracuse.

▪ KORTNEY DUNBAR (Edwardsville, Tennessee): Grabbed 1 rebound and a steal in the 58-51 win over Wichita State.

▪ KYMBER HILL (Althoff, Massachusetts): Scored five points in the 78-68 loss to Central Connecticut.

▪ PAIGE RAKERS (Carlyle, St. Louis): Didn’t enter the game in the 71-64 loss to SIUE.

▪ AALIYAH COVINGTON (Edwardsville, St. Louis): Played 13 minutes but didn’t record a stat in the 71-64 loss to SIUE.

▪ ERICA BROWN (Nashville, Eastern Illinois): Scored seven points in the 82-71 loss to Milwaukee.

▪ ALECE SHUMPERT (Althoff, Eastern Illinois): Scored nine points and six rebounds in the 82-71 loss to Milwaukee.

▪ SYDNEY BLOCH (Edwardsville, UMSL): Scored 13 points to go with four rebounds and four assists in the 74-61 win over Maryville.

Compiled by Kyle Ishman, Belleville News-Democrat

This story was originally published December 13, 2015 at 11:04 AM with the headline "How local D-1 players performed."

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