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Flowers leaves mark on West Lib

WEST LIBERTY – West Liberty senior guard Liz Flowers completed her collegiate career earlier this month.

Flowers helped the Hilltoppers make their deepest NCAA Tournament run in program history this season, advancing to the Sweet 16 before bowing out with a 29-5 record. The 29 wins are the most in program history as well.

Flowers, a 2012 graduate of Williamstown, was the Hilltoppers’ leading scorer this season with 20.7 points per game. It’s the third consecutive year she’s been the team’s top point-getter.

Her 705 points scored this season is a single-season record.

She is ranked sixth in the nation in 3-pointers made (112) and her points-per-game average is seventh.

A well-rounded player, Flowers was also second on the squad with 5.7 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.

Flowers has a knack for being at her best when her team needed her the most, as evidenced by her performance in this season’s Mountain East Conference Tournament and NCAA Division II Tournament.

In three games in the MEC tourney, she averaged 23 points per game and was the tournament’s leading scorer.

In three NCAA tourney games, she averaged a whopping 30.3 points per contest including 40 against Shaw University and 33 against seventh-ranked Virginia Union – she also collected eight assists and six boards in that game.

Deservedly so, Flowers racked up several postseason accolades. Among them were first team All-MEC (third year in a row), second team All-East Region, MEC All-Tournament and NCAA East Region All-Tournamnet.

Flowers finished her career ranked No. 3 in scoring at West Liberty with 2,135 points. She also ranked in the top 10 in career 3-pointers made (fifth), rebounds (seventh) and assists (sixth).

Flowers is the only 2,000-point scorer in Williamstown history and is among active D2 women’s players, the leading career scorer in the country.

She is set to graduate in May with a Bachelor of Science in dental hygiene and hopes to come back and work in the Mid-Ohio Valley area.

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