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Holly Smith knew her St. Catharine College softball team would be in for a battle last weekend as they welcomed the Indiana Wesleyan University Wildcats for a four game series to open the season. But even though the Patriots dropped three of the four games, they were in position to win all but one of the contests.

As they went into Monday’s regular season basketball finale at Georgetown, the St. Catharine College women were in a tie for fifth place with the University of the Cumberlands. And, trailing fourth place Campbellsville by two games and ahead of seventh place Bluefield by four games, the Patriots will enter this week’s Mid-South Conference tournament as either the fifth or sixth seed.

For the second consecutive week Janae Howard has been named Player of the Week in the Mid-South Conference. That announcement came from conference officials Monday afternoon.

After getting 21.5 points and 5.5 rebounds a game when she won the award the first time, Howard boosted that to 31.5 points a game, along with 10.5 rebounds, in the two games last week. She scored a career high 40 points in St. Catharine’s 71-54 win over No. 16-ranked Bethel (Tenn.) last Monday and also grabbed 12 rebounds.