Ex-Lynden High standout named freshman of year in PacWest
Former Lynden High School basketball standout Sterling Somers of Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego has been named the PacWest Conference Freshman of the Year by the league’s coaches.
Through Wednesday, Somers was averaging 8.9 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, and had 31 assists and 17 steals for the Division II Sea Lions. He won three straight PacWest Freshman of the Week honors during a string of six consecutive double-digit scoring performances. He scored a career-high 22 points at Chaminade on Feb. 2.
Somers was honorable mention all-conference.
2016-17 #PacWestMBB Freshman of the Year - @PLNUSeaLions Sterling Somers pic.twitter.com/zkQY6esqRs
— PacWest Conference (@ThePacWest) March 1, 2017
The sixth-seeded Sea Lions beat third-seeded Dixie State 71-69 Thursday in the PacWest tournament in Irvine, Calif.
At Lynden, Somers was selected The Bellingham Herald’s All-Whatcom County Boys Basketball Player of the Year and was named co-Player of the Year for Class 2A by the state’s coaches. He finished as the second-leading scorer in school history and holds the record for most defensive rebounds in a career and in a season.
This story was originally published March 2, 2017 at 10:55 AM with the headline "Ex-Lynden High standout named freshman of year in PacWest."