It was a 2-0 week for Azusa Pacific, Point Loma, Dominican, Menlo, Academy of Art and Westmont, but Chaminade steals the Team of the Week award for their near upset of APU and first-ever win over Biola. Cougar Amayah Kirkman had big numbers in two Hawaii road wins and Penguin Taylor Linzie had 31 rebounds and five steals for Defender of the Week.

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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Azusa Pacific's Amayah Kirkman, G, Grad., 5-8, Scottsdale, Ariz.                        
Azusa Pacific's Amayah Kirkman was a force at both ends of the court during the Cougars' road wins over Hawaii Pacific and Chaminade. The graduate guard totaled 41 points, 26 rebounds and seven steals as APU improved to 14-1 overall and 8-0 in PacWest play. On Thursday at the Shark Tank, Kirkman had 23 points and 13 rebounds as the Cougars held off the Sharks, 66-63. Against the Silverswords, the 2024 All-PacWest Second Team selection had 19 points, 13 rebounds and a season-high six steals. On the season, the Arizona native is averaging 16.2 points (2nd for APU) and a team-best 6.3 rebounds a contest. 

DEFENDER OF THE WEEK: Dominican's Taylor Linzie, F, Grad. 5-7, Bakersfield, Calif.                                
Dominican's Taylor Linzie ruled the defensive boards and helped the Penguins to PacWest wins over Fresno Pacific and Jessup. The 5-foot-7 forward totaled 31 rebounds in the two games, 24 of them on the defensive end of the court. The CS East Bay grad transfer also had five steals and 26 total points. On Wednesday during a 68-61 win over the Sunbirds, Linzie had 14 points, a season-high 16 rebounds and three steals. Against Jessup, she had 15 rebounds and a double-double with 12 points. In her last four games, Linzie has a total of 61 rebounds, an average of 15.25 per game. 

TEAM OF THE WEEK: The Chaminade Silverswords are the PacWest Team of the Week. Chaminade had a weekend for the Silversword record books with their first-ever win over Biola and a two-point loss to Azusa Pacific. In the 57-42 win over Biola on Thursday, it was CUH's first in 12 tries against the Eagles and the 42 points was the lowest by a Chaminade opponent in the school record books. Sameera Elmasri had 17 points, seven rebounds and four steals and Morgan Escobedo added 12 points and nine boards. Against the Cougars in a narrow 59-57 loss, the 'Swords climbed back from a 10-point fourth quarter deficit to cut the margin to two on a Elmasri 3-point play with six seconds left. Elmasri finished with 20 points, ten rebounds and five steals. The 59 APU points was the fewest that the Cougars have ever scored against Chaminade, after putting up 101 last year. Other than APU's one-point loss earlier this year to CS Los Angeles, the two-point win against the 'Swords was the smallest margin of victory this year for the defending PacWest champs. With the split, Chaminade improved to 4-5 in PacWest play.

THIS WEEK: PacWest play resumes on Wednesday with Chaminade traveling to Fresno Pacific and Vanguard visiting Azusa Pacific. On Thursday, Menlo is at Concordia, Point Loma goes to Biola and Dominican visits Westmont. Saturday's packed schedule includes Menlo at Westmont, Hawaii Pacific at Vanguard, Dominican at Biola, Jessup at Academy of Art, Chaminade at Point Loma and Hawaii Hilo at Azusa Pacific.  To see the complete list, click here.

PACWEST NEWS AND NOTES: Point Loma and Azusa Pacific remain unbeaten with perfect 8-0 conference records to begin the calendar year 2025. Vanguard is right behind at 6-1, followed by Dominican at 5-3, Westmont at 4-3, Biola 4-4 and Hawaii Pacific 3-3...In addition to Azusa Pacific and Dominican going 2-0 last week, Point Loma did the same with a 58-55 victory at Hilo and a 69-49 victory over Hawaii Pacific. Grace Meyers had 15 points off the bench against the Sharks...Menlo also went 2-0, with a conference win over Fresno Pacific and a non-league victory over UC Santa Cruz. Jordyn Rosette totaled 37 points, 18 rebounds, five blocks and five steals for the Oaks...Westmont's Lisa Kiefer had her biggest rebound total of the year in a season of amazing numbers. She had 20 boards in a win over Concordia and had 28 for the week...Vanguard had just one game last week, a 75-57 win over the Golden Eagles with Sarah Matossian scoring a PacWest season best 34 points. She also had ten rebounds...Academy of Art won a conference game and a non-conference bout with victories over Jessup and Lincoln. The Urban Knights had five players in double figures in the 96-70 win over Lincoln...Same for Westmont with a triumph over Concordia and one against Bethesda. Jazmyn Sharp had 29 points in the win over Bethesda, the third highest total in the PacWest this season...Short on the scoreboard but high in the scoring column last week was Concordia's Izzy Navarro with 49 total points and Hawaii Hilo's Caiyle Kaupu with 45...Alaiyah San Juan had 41 points to pace Dominican on offense in their two wins...Biola topped Hilo 62-49 behind the sharpshooting of Kaylen Kamelamela, who had 20 points and 10 boards on 9-of-13 shooting from the field.

WEST REGION RANKINGS: Today's (Jan. 13) D2CSC west region ranking looks like this, with no movement from last week with the top nine teams: (1) CS Dominguez Hills 14-0, (2) Montana State Billings 16-2, (3) Azusa Pacific 14-1, (4) Cal Poly Pomona 12-2, (5) Alaska Anchorage 14-2, (6) Chico State 12-2, (7) Point Loma 13-3, (8) Central Washington 10-4, (9) CS Los Angeles 9-4, (10) Western Washington 9-6. RV--Vanguard, Northwest Nazarene.