Four Wildcats earn Big Sky All-Conference honors

OGDEN — Four Weber State players were named to the 2012-13 Big Sky All-Conference Men's Basketball Team, which was announced Monday by the conference. The team was determined in a vote of the league's 11 head coaches. Weber State finished the regular season 24-5 and was second in the Big Sky with an 18-2 conference record.

Two Wildcats, Scott Bamforth and Davion Berry, were named to the All-Conference first team. Berry was also honored as the Newcomer of the Year. Kyle Tresnak was named to the second team and Frank Otis earned honorable mention honors.

Bamforth earned All-Conference honors for the third time in his three years at Weber State and earned first team honors for the second time. He also earned the honor as a sophomore in 2011. This season Bamforth ranks 11th in the Big Sky in scoring at 13.3 points per game, and averaged 13.9 per game in conference games. The Albuquerque, N.M., native leads the Big Sky in free throw percentage at 88.1 percent. He also ranks third in three-pointers per game and is fifth in the conference and ninth in the nation three-point field goal percentage. He scored in double figures 22 times during the year, the most of any Wildcat. For his career Bamforth currently ranks 12th in scoring in school history and is third in career three-pointers. He needs just 19 more three-pointers to become the school's all-time leader.

Davion Berry became the seventh player in Weber State history to be named the Big Sky's Newcomer of the Year. The Wildcats have won the award three of the last four years. The junior from Oakland, Calif., led the Wildcats in scoring and was fourth in the conference in scoring at 15.1 points per game. He averaged 15.8 points a game in Big Sky games. Berry was also fifth in assist to turnover ratio, seventh in the league in three-point percentage, seventh in steals and seventh in assists. Berry scored in double figures 21 times during the season and scored 20 or more nine times. He led the Wildcats in scoring 13 times during the season.

Kyle Tresnak earned second team honors after earning honorable mention as a sophomore last season. Tresnak averaged 11.5 points and 5.6 rebounds for the Wildcats and ranks fifth in the conference in field goal percentage at 54.4 percent. He is also seventh in the league in blocks at 1.3 per game. Tresnak scored in double figures 16 times and scored 20 or more four times.

Frank Otis picked up All-Conference honors for the first time in his career. The senior from Oakland, Calif, averaged 8.8 points per game and ranks second in the league in field goal percentage at 61.9 percent. He is also ninth in the conference in rebounds at 6.0 per game. After playing just 12 games due to injury last season, Otis started all 29 games for the Wildcats this season and scored in double figures 11 times.

Montana's Kareem Jamar was named the League MVP and six other players were named to the first team. Joining Bamforth and Berry were Derrick Barden of Northern Colorado, Will Cherry from Montana, Troy Huff from North Dakota and Gabe Rogers from Northern Arizona. Jamar and Huff were both unanimous selections. Cherry was named to the first team for the third time and was named Defensive Player of the Year. Venky Jois of Eastern Washington was named Freshman of the Year.

First Team

• Kareem Jamar, Montana - MVP
• Scott Bamforth, Weber State
• Derrick Barden, Northern Colorado
• Davion Berry, Weber State
• Will Cherry, Montana
• Troy Huff, North Dakota
• Gabe Rogers, Northern Arizona

Second Team- Aaron Anderson, North Dakota

• Damon Heuir, Southern Utah
• Jackson Stevenett, Southern Utah
• Kyle Tresnak, Weber State
• Tate Unruh, Northern Colorado
• Mathias Ward, Montana

Honorable Mention- Venky Jois, Eastern Washington

• Chris Hansen, Idaho State
• Jordan Gregory, Montana
• Flavien Davis, Montana State
• Christian Moon, Montana State
• Stallon Saldivar, Northern Arizona
• Aaron Moore, Portland State
• John Dickson, Sacramento State
• Dylan Garrity, Sacramento State
• Frank Otis, Weber State

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