Players of the Week | A seven-touchdown sectional title, the ace that won a state championship, and the first girls basketball winner of the season.
The fans voted. Here are your Indiana Preps Players of the Week for the week of Nov. 2.
Football: Levi Murray, Wheeler | RB
Wheeler 57, Knox 8 | Nov. 6 | Sectional championship
Levi Murray didn’t just win a sectional title for Wheeler. He scored it.
The Wheeler running back carried 23 times for 372 yards and seven touchdowns in the sectional championship win over Knox. That’s 16.2 yards every time he touched the ball, with the game on the line and the season at stake.
Seven touchdowns was the biggest scoring line of sectional championship night anywhere in Indiana.
Murray was the engine of a Wheeler team that took an 11-1 record into the regional round. Fans gave him 38 percent of the vote.
Volleyball: Tatum Hatch, Tri-West Hendricks | Setter
Class 3A state championship vs. West Noble | Nov. 7 | Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Some players finish a season. Tatum Hatch ended one with a serve.
The Tri-West junior setter had 40 assists and eight digs in the Class 3A state final against West Noble. Then she served the ace that won the championship.
That point gave Tri-West its first volleyball state title. The Bruins had reached three straight semi-states without breaking through before this fall, and they beat West Noble, another first-time finalist, to finish the job.
Hatch entered the final with 1,105 assists on the season. She ran the offense that fed Caroline Ward and her 651 kills, and she made the last play herself.
Fans agreed. Hatch took 60.4 percent of more than 5,000 votes, the most decisive result of the week.
Girls Basketball: Jayleigh Brown, Kokomo
Kokomo 56, Zionsville 47
The first girls basketball Player of the Week of the season came down to the wire.
Jayleigh Brown scored 20 points to lead Kokomo past Zionsville 56-47, and she won one of the closest votes we’ve run, with 32.5 percent.
The field behind her was loaded.
Homestead’s Delany Knoll took 29.6 percent after a 52-point triple-double, a stat line that would win most weeks in most states.
Rossville’s Mallory O’Brien finished third with 21.3 percent after a 30-point night.
Three players separated by about 11 points. Opening week of girls basketball is set up to be loud all winter.
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