Kuntzsch, Boston Earn Weekly MIAA Honors

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Corbin Kuntzsch (Fort Hays State) and Cassondra Boston (Emporia State) have been named MIAA Basketball Student-Athletes of the Week for the week of Jan. 4-9 as selected by a conference SID panel. Kuntzsch and Boston are both first-time honorees in 2009-10.
 
MIAA MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Corbin Kuntzsch, G, Fort Hays State
Kuntzsch scored a career-high 33 points in the win over No. 11 Southwest Baptist on Saturday. The junior from Scott City, Kan., hit all five of his 3-point field goal attempts and buried 12-of-14 free throws. It was the most points scored by a FHSU player in the Mark Johnson coaching era. It was only the fifth time under Johnson that a FHSU player scored at least 30 points in a game. Kuntzsch also pulled down a team-high eight rebounds against SBU. Earlier in the week, he had 13 points in the upset of No. 1 Central Missouri in Warrensburg. He played the entire game against the Mules. Kuntzsch has scored in double figures in all seven conference games this year and leads Fort Hays State in scoring for conference games only at 16.9 points. He continues to lead the Tigers in rebounding at 7.1 per game.
 
MIAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cassondra Boston, G, Emporia State
Boston led ESU in scoring in both games, reaching the 20-point mark for the seventh and eighth times this season as the Hornets moved into a first-place tie in conference action. The senior from Des Moines, Iowa, scored 21 points in ESU's win at Missouri Southern, with 15 coming in a total of 5:04 at the beginning and end of the game. Boston scored the first nine points of the game for the No. 7 Lady Hornets at MSSU and ESU never trailed. With the score tied at 47 and MSSU with the ball, Boston got a defensive rebound with 1:59 left that preserved the tie and would score the final six points for ESU to lock up the win. She had a game-high 23 points with a season-high seven rebounds and eight assists in the win over PSU that put the Lady Hornets into a tie for first in the MIAA. She scored ten points in a 16-2 ESU run that turned a 26-13 deficit into a 29-28 lead in the first half against the Gorillas. Boston moved into the top ten of career scoring at ESU during the week, passing Stef Quayle and Denise Dawson into ninth place with 1,440 points.