 Jodi Hill |  Anthony Goode |
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's Jodi Hill and Anthony Goode are Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Players of the Week for Oct. 27-Nov. 2.
Hill, a 5-foot-9 junior middle blocker from Prairieville, La., and a graduate of Dutchtown High School, won the women's volleyball award. Goode, a 6-foot senior guard from Baltimore, Md., and a graduate of Milford Mill Academy, is the inaugural winner in men's basketball for 2014-15.
Hill hit .480 during a 3-0 week with only two attack errors and helped Xavier clinch its fourth consecutive GCAC regular-season championship. Hill hit a season-best .600 with nine kills and two blocks at Edward Waters, then had five kills, three blocks and an ace in a home sweep of GCAC runner-up SUNO. She was part of a defensive effort which limited SUNO to a hitting percentage of .089. SUNO entered the match ranked 13th in the NAIA with a .253 hitting percentage and was hitting .326 in GCAC matches.
Hill capped her week by hitting .500 at Philander Smith with a match-high 12 kills.
Goode led Xavier in scoring in season-opening victories against Belhaven (20 points) and Carver (25). His points are the most by a Gold Rush player in the first two games of a season in the last 12 years. Against Carver, Goode matched his career scoring high and grabbed a career-best eight rebounds. He shot 60.9 percent from the floor, 50 percent from 3-point range and 86.7 percent from the line during the week.
This is Goode's second GCAC weekly award; he won in February last season.
Both XU teams will play Thursday. The Gold Nuggets (17-5, 13-0) will visit city and GCAC rival Dillard at 7 p.m. to close their regular season, and the Gold Rush — 3-0 and ranked 13th in the NAIA — will play NCAA Division II's Albany State at 6 p.m. at the Convocation Center.
Ed Cassiere, Sports Information
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