Vikings Guard Uses Record Setting Week To Earn NAIA National Honor

MOUNT BERRY, Ga....Hours after being named Southern States Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the second time in four weeks, Berry guard Cameron Fitch was named the NAIA's National Player of the Week Tuesday.

     Fitch, who also earned the Southern States award Jan.31, had a record breaking week in leading the Vikings to a pair of conference victories.  The senior from Acworth scored 24 points, grabbed seven rebounds and passed out a pair of assists in the Vikings' 85-69 win at Faulkner this past Thursday, and became Berry's all-time leading scorer in that game. 

     In Berry's 96-77 victory over Lee on Saturday, Fitch finished the game with 28 points, four rebounds, five assists, one block and one steal.  In that game, he also became just the second player in team history to pass for more than 500 career assists. 

     For the week, Fitch averaged 26 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists as Berry won its two games by an average margin of 17.5 points.  He shot 61 percent from the field, 50 percent from three-point range and 88 percent from the free-throw line in those games.

     Including Monday night's 23-point effort in the Vikings' 108-93 victory over No. 25 North Georgia, which counts toward the current week's stats and not last week's, Fitch is just 13 points shy of becoming the first player in team history to score 2,000 career points.

     Fitch and the Vikings return to action Thursday at Reinhardt, then close the regular season this Saturday at 8 p.m., when they host No. 3 Southern Poly at Ford Gym.