After having a remarkable weekend and breaking several ASC Division II records Adams State College senior guard on the women’s basketball team has been named as the ASCGrizzlies.com/Paw Print athlete of the weeke for the week ending Nov. 28.
In the Grizzlies first game of the Colorado State-Pueblo Chuck Stephens Classic against Drury (Mo.) on Friday, Bustos bettered her own Adams State NCAA Division II era single-game scoring mark, hitting 10-of-18 shots from the field, including 8-of-13 from 3-point range, along with eight free throws in a 36-point effort, one more than her previous single-game best.
Eight of her points came in overtime, as she scored the first six points of the extra period to key the Grizzlies to victory.
After dropping 36 points on Friday, Bustos entered Saturday evening’s game against Dubuque (Iowa) just four points shy of the Grizzlies Division II era career scoring mark with 1,374 points. She scored 10 points in the game, and with 3:28 remaining in the first half, she hit a jumper to take over the record, and upped the record to 1,384 points and counting by the end of the game.
Bustos’ performances at the Chuck Stephens Classic earned her MVP honors, her second time taking tournament MVP honors this season after doing the same at the Adams State hosted Bankers Classic last weekend (Nov. 19-20). It marked the third time in her career that she has been selected as a tournament MVP.
Bustos ran away with the online vote as she nabbed 35 percent of the 306 votes cast online. Also nominated for the award were junior varsity women’s basketball players Tay Merriman and Alyssa Smith and varsity basketball player Kelsie Kruger. Smith and Merriman matched each other with 30.7 percent of the votes each while Kruger got 3.6 percent.
Bustos got eight of the nine first place votes among media members and ASC Athletic Administators while Smith got the other one. Kruger finished second overall with 19 total points, Smith had 22.5 and Merriman had 29.5.
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