Former E-Rab Sincere Parker earns national honor after back-to-back 30-point college games
Boylan grad Peyton Kennedy just won Atlantic-10 Player of the Week honors for the St. Louis University women’s basketball team. Former East star Sincere Parker saw that and raised her, becoming one of five players named by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association as an Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week.
Parker, one of three Rockford grads playing basketball for SLU — Auburn’s Brooklyn Gray is also a standout on the women’s team — scored a career-high 33 points in only 18 minutes to lead the Billikens to a 102-84 win over LaSalle. He then scored another career high the next night with 34 points on 12-for-19 shooting with a career-high nine assists against St. Joseph’s.
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Parker was a second-team All-Stater his junior season at East when the E-Rabs finished fourth in the state in Class 4A in 2019. He is the first Billiken in 26 years to score 30 points in back-to-back games. The last to do so was Larry Hughes, who went on to score more than 10,000 points in the NBA.
Parker, who was out with an injury earlier in the year, leads St. Louis with a 15.8 scoring average.
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Kennedy won her honors for scoring 12 and then a career-high 31 points in two games last week.
Contact: mtrowbridge@rrstar.com, @matttrowbridge or 815-987-1383. Matt Trowbridge has covered sports for the Rockford Register Star for over 30 years, after previous stints in North Dakota, Delaware, Vermont and Iowa City.
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