Tusculum basketball standouts Inady Legiste and Blayre Shultz have been named the Zaxby’s Athletes of the Week for the week of Nov. 7-13.
Legiste, a junior forward from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, averaged 17.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game in leading Tusculum to a perfect 2-0 record last weekend at the South Atlantic Conference / Peach Belt Challenge.
Legiste shot 60 percent from the floor for the weekend as the Pioneers are 2-0 for the third time in the last four seasons. He posted 15 points and four rebounds in a 94-85 win over USC Aiken. He followed with his second career double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds in an 88-77 win over Clayton State.
Shultz, a senior guard from Morristown, Tennessee, averaged 19.5 points per game and shot 64.3 percent (9-for-14) from three-point range to help the Pioneers to season-opening wins over Mount Olive (65-50) and North Greenville (93-40) at the SAC/Conference Carolinas Challenge.
Shultz collected 18 points and three steals in a 65-50 win over Mount Olive and scored a game-high 21 points on 6-for-9 from beyond the arch in a 93-40 rout of North Greenville.
The Tusculum University Athlete of the Week Award is sponsored by Zaxby’s, located at 3280 Andrew Johnson Highway in Greeneville. The Zaxby’s Athlete of the Week Award honors one male and one female athlete each week from an in-season sport.
