Brigham Young-Hawaii senior forward Alexus Foyle was named the Pacific West Conference Player of the Year yesterday for the second consecutive season. Seasiders’ Foyle
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Foyle leads the nation in scoring with 27.6 points a game and helped the Seasiders (19-3) to the PacWest title.
Foyle was also selected as a member of the Daktronics All-West Region team and will be eligible for the Daktronics All-American team.
Joining Foyle on the conference first team is teammatae Scott Salisbury, Hawaii-Hilo's Ryan Abrahams, Chaminade's Leon Ballard and Montana State-Billings' Dan Thompson.
All the first-team picks are seniors except for Abrahams, who is a junior.
BYUH coach Ken Wagner is the Coach of the Year. He was Co-Coach of the Year in 2002.
Salisbury, a senior center, is averaging a double-double in points and rebounds.
Wager guided BYUH to the best record in school history, including a perfect home mark.
The 12th-ranked Seasiders will host the NCAA II West Regional this week as the top seed, putting their 19-game home winning streak on the line.
BYUH plays Cal State-Bakersfield on Friday at 8:30 p.m.
Nic Walters and Leandro Maruoka of Hawaii Pacific, Kyle Bartholomew of Hilo and Roy Stigall of Chaminade were named to the second team.
Local players who received PacWest honorable mention accolades were Beau Nobmann and Shawn Opunui (BYUH), Skip Esene and Brady Hyde (Hilo), Marvin Noble and Nate Block (HPU) and Bryon Sykes (Chaminade).
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