APSU Sports Information
Clarksville, TN – Junior sprinter Maikea Davis, of the Austin Peay State University women’s track and field team, has been named this week’s Copies in a Flash APSU Athlete of the Week.
Davis had a hand in 23 of Austin Peay’s 140 points at last weekend’s SIU Invitational, leading the Lady Govs to a second-place finish in Carbondale.
The Albany, Ga. native placed sixth in the 60m dash (7.87 seconds) and ran a leg of Austin Peay’s 4x400m relay team that won the event by nearly six seconds with a 3:53.88 mark.
The Copies in a Flash APSU Athlete of the Week is selected by the APSU Sports Information staff each Tuesday during the academic year. Copies in a Flash, of Clarksville, sponsors the award.
Other notable performances by Austin Peay athletes included:
- Junior forward Ed Dyson, of the men’s basketball team, scored a career-high 20 points at Tennessee State and followed that up with a 16-point outing at Belmont, giving him three straight double-digit point outings for the first time in his Austin Peay career.
- Freshman Hannah Tatlock, of the women’s tennis team, won both her matches at No. 6 singles last week, dispatching Middle Tennessee’s Sarah Sediri (3-6, 6-3, 10-2), Friday, and Southern Illinois’ Gisela Cairo Baza (7-6, 6-4), Saturday.
- Senior pitcher/first baseman Lauren de Castro, of the softball team, was named to the all-tournament team at the Mardi Gras Invitational after hitting .429 (3-for-7) and securing Austin Peay’s first victory with a four-inning, two-earned run performance in the season-opener against McNeese State.
- Sophomore forward Jennifer Nwokocha, of the women’s basketball team, scored 15 points on 7-for-9 shooting, pulled down eight rebounds and a career-high four steals in just 21 foul-plagued minutes at Tennessee State, Saturday.
