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Johnny Romero | Daily 49er
Senior guard Nick Faust is averaging 17 points per game, shooting 45.6 percent from behind the arc and pulling down 5.2 rebounds per game.
Ben Hammerton | Daily 49er
Junior forward Jewelyn Sawyer averages 12.1 ppg, shoots 53.6 percent from the field and leads the women’s team with seven rebounds a game.
The Big West announced on Monday that senior Nick Faust and junior Jewelyn Sawyer earned the conference’s men and women’s Basketball Player of the Week awards.
Sawyer earned her first career conference player of the week award after a little over two seasons at Long Beach State. Faust also picked up his first weekly honor in the Big West, however this is only his third week playing in the conference. The six-foot-six guard’s only recognition before transferring from Maryland was a spot in the All ACC-Freshman team in 2012.
The LBSU team’s star forward, Sawyer, averaged 14 points per game in two games this week against Pacific and Colorado. She shot 84.6 percent from the field over both games and totaled 14 rebounds on her way to leading LBSU to a second consecutive 7-1 start to a season.
Faust played in twice as many games as Sawyer as the men’s team played four games in six days. He averaged 21.8 ppg in that stretch on 51.7 percent shooting from the field and went 17 for 31 from behind the three-point line. Faust’s stellar numbers have led the 49ers to a 5-5 record and has put them within reach of pulling off upsets against Oklahoma State twice, San Diego State and UCLA.
Both Sawyer and Faust are leading their teams in scoring. Faust is the only player on the men’s team averaging in double digits (17 ppg) while Sawyer is leading her team in scoring (12.1 ppg) along with junior guard Raven Benton (10.3 ppg).
