BUTTE, Mont. - As well as claiming both Frontier Conference men's and women's basketball tournament titles, Lewis-Clark State College also dominated the all-tournament teams, which were announced Sunday by FC commissioner Mike Walker.

 

Senior guard Jade Fulbright and senior forward Mike Gordy were chosen the MVPs of the women's and men's tournaments, respectively, after LCSC clinched berths in the national tournaments by winning the conference tournament titles on Saturday. Both tournaments kick off March 19, the women in Jackson, Tenn., and the men in Kansas City, Mo.

 

The 32-team fields for the single-elimination national tournaments will be announced on Tuesday and the first-round pairings will be set Wednesday.

 

Fulbright, a 5-foot-7 native of Wenatchee, Wash., helped LCSC defeat Great Falls 81-64, Montana Western 87-69, and Carroll College 70-60 to wrap up the title. Fulbright averaged 16 points, 3.3 steals, 2.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game. She hit 17-of-35 shots from the field and 13-of-14 at the foul line.

 

Fulbright was joined on the all-tournament team by teammates Sadie Short, a 5-11 junior forward from Touchet, Wash., and Mandy Troutt, a 6-2, senior post from Pullman, Wash.  Short was averaged 13.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 2.0 steals per game. She was 15-of-36 from the field, including 3-of-8 at the 3-point line, and 7-of-8 at the foul line.

 

Troutt averaged 11 points, 9.3 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks in the three games. She was 13-of-27 from the field.

 

Joining them on the all-tournament team were Danielle Maloney and Jolene Fuzesy of Carroll College, and Elisa Leader of Westminster.

 

On the men's side, Gordy, who is from Denver, had a strong tournament by hitting 29-of-42 shots from the field for 69 percent accuracy. He was 2-of-4 from the 3-point line and 7-of-13 at the foul line. He averaged 22.3 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, along with 2.3 assists. He also had four steals in the tourney.

 

He was joined by teammate Napoleon Gordon, a 6-0 sophomore guard from Silverdale, Wash. Gordon averaged 11.3 points and had 21 in the championship game, a 65-63 win over Montana State-Northern. Gordon was 13-of-32 from the field, averaged nearly four rebounds per game and also had four assists.

 

LCSC opened the tournament with a 76-58 win over Montana Tech and then stopped Rocky Mountain 76-75 in the semifinals.

 

Rounding out the men's all-tournament team were Drew Pettersen and Travis Noble of MSU-Northern, Devin Uskoski of Rocky Mountain, and Chad Vaculin of Carroll College.

 

LCSC has now won the conference title, both regular season and tournament, in every conference sport it competes in during the 2007-08 school year up to this point. LCSC won the conference titles in men's and women's cross country, then won the regular season and conference tournament titles in women's volleyball and basketball, as well as men's basketball. The men's basketball team finished in a four-way tie for first place in the regular-season standings.

 

The final two conference sports LCSC participates in are men's and women's golf.