Centenary's Blount; Schreiner's Myres; Trinity's Kitzinger Selected to NABC All-District Team

Centenary's Blount; Schreiner's Myres; Trinity's Kitzinger Selected to NABC All-District Team

(Photos by Josh Moczygemba)

KANSAS CITY, Mo.
-- Jonathan Blount of Centenary College, AJ Myres of Schreiner University and Robert Kitzinger of Trinity University were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division III All-District team in an announcement made today. Complete Release

Blount and Myres were named to the All-South First Team while Kitzinger was a Second Team selection.

Centenary's Blount, who was also a NABC All-South First Team selection last season, led the league in scoring for the second consecutive year and set new single-season SCAC records this season for scoring average (24.4 ppg) and total points (682). He shot 49.7 percent from the field (seventh in the SCAC), 43.4 percent from three-point range (fourth in the SCAC) and 85.0 percent from the free-throw line (third in the SCAC). A four-time SCAC Player-of-the-Week this season, Blount set a new Centenary single-game scoring record with 53 points against Open Bible College on Feb. 18 and finished his career with 1,573 career points (eighth in program history). The 2012-13 SCAC Player-of-the-Year, he was just the second men's player in league history to earn back-to-back POTY honors and the first since Sewanee's Ryan Harrigan in 1996-97 and 1997-98. He and Harrigan also share the distinction of being the only two players in SCAC history to be named NABC First Team All-District two consecutive years.

Schreiner's Myres finished third in the conference in scoring (18.7 ppg) as well as eighth in assists (79) and field goal percentage (48.4%). Although the senior's scoring dipped somewhat in the latter part of the season, it was largely due to the emergence of new scoring threats for the Mountaineers as evidenced by Myres' 52 assists during conference play – the second-highest total in the league. Myres, who only played three years at Schreiner, finished his career with 1,140 career points – the second-most by any player in the school's Division III era (1999-present) and 11th-most overall. In his one and only year in the conference, Myres was named SCAC Co-Player-of-the-Year and SCAC Defensive Player-of-the-Year and was selected to the 2014 All-Tournament Team. This is the second straight day that Myres has received national recognition as he was named to the d3hoops.com All-South Region team yesterday.

Kitzinger led Trinity in both scoring (16.0 ppg - sixth in the SCAC) and rebounding (5.1 rpg - ninth in the SCAC) and was a four-time All-SCAC honoree during his career. He was Honorable Mention All-SCAC as a first-year in 2010-11, Second Team All-SCAC in 2011-12, and Third Team last season. The senior also led the league in free-throw percentage (88.2 percent). He finished his career as the program's all-time leader in three-point field goals made (223), which is good for the 10th-most in SCAC history, and his 1,398 career points is good for 23rd all-time in conference history. Three weeks ago, Kitzinger averaged 17.7 points per game to lead Trinity to its third-consecutive SCAC men's title and NCAA Tournament appearance and was named the SCAC Tournament MVP for his efforts. Like Myres, Kitzinger was also selected to the d3hoops.com All-South Region team.

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