Three Morehead State women’s basketball players have been recognized for their performances this season with selections to the All-Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) teams. Kate Dike was named to the All-OVC First Team, while Marie Sepp and Laura Toffali earned spots on both the OVC All-Newcomer Team and the All-OVC Second Team.
Dike led Morehead State in scoring and rebounding, averaging 14.5 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. These numbers placed her sixth and fifth respectively among all players in the Ohio Valley Conference. The graduate student from Kiev, Ukraine also ranked in other statistical categories within the conference: she finished fifth in field goal percentage at 48.2%, twelfth in free throw percentage at 69.4%, and twelfth in blocked shots with 22.
She recorded seven double-doubles during the season, including a 26-point, 12-rebound performance against SIUE on January 29. Dike set a career-high with 35 points on December 7, adding another double-double that night with 12 rebounds. Over the course of the season, she reached double figures in scoring in 22 games, surpassing the 20-point mark four times.
Marie Sepp concluded her season as the leader in assists within the OVC, finishing with a total of 12 assists. Her assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.44 was third highest in the conference. Sepp averaged 9.9 points per game and was second on her team with an average of 4.8 rebounds per game.
Sepp achieved a triple-double on December 3 against Murray State at Johnson Arena by tallying 12 points, grabbing ten rebounds, and dishing out a career-high thirteen assists. She also had a double-double against Western Illinois with thirteen points and ten rebounds on January 22.
Laura Toffali contributed an average of 12.4 points per game this season, ranking sixteenth in the OVC for scoring average. Her free throw percentage of 68.8% placed her thirteenth among conference players this year. Defensively, Toffali led both her team and the conference with ninety-four steals—one short of tying Morehead State’s single-season record—and ranks tied for eleventh nationally for total steals this season; her rate of three steals per game is eighteenth best across Division I programs.
Morehead State will continue its postseason when it faces either Little Rock or Southeast Missouri—the winner between those two teams—in Thursday’s quarterfinal round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.
