Tamara McCaskill

For the second time this season, Tamara McCaskill has been named as the Great Lakes Valley Conference's "Player of the Week" for her performances in a pair of Missouri S&T victories last week.

The junior forward from Edwardsville, Ill., averaged 19.5 points and five rebounds per game while shooting 68.2 percent from the field (15-of-22), leading the Lady Miners in scoring in both victories that kept them one game behind Drury in the GLVC West Division.

In S&T's 75-73 victory over Quincy, McCaskill scored 16 of her game-high 19 points in the second half to help it rally to a key win over the Hawks; Quincy entered the game one game behind S&T in the standings. She was seven-of-11 from the field, including a pair of three-pointers, while adding five rebounds, three assists, two steals and a blocked shot.

On Saturday, McCaskill had 20 points on 8-for-11 shooting from the field with two three-pointers, five rebounds, two assists and a blocked shot. She hit both of her three-pointers during the course of S&T's decisive 22-2 run to start the second half of an eventual 72-48 win over Southern Illinois Edwardsville.

McCaskill was previously named as the league's "Player of the Week" in January after Lady Miner victories at Wisconsin-Parkside and Lewis. The Lady Miners have earned three such awards this season, as Katie Bunge also landed the GLVC's weekly award a week after McCaskill was named the first time.

Missouri S&T, currently 18-4 overall and 12-3 in the GLVC, returns to action Thursday when it plays Rockhurst in Kansas City, Mo.