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      <title>2025-26 OCCAC Men&#x2019;s Basketball Annual Awards</title>
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      <description>Marlon Landingham from Lakeland is the 2025-26 OCCAC Player of the Year while Edison State&#x2019;s Kyle Vanover has earned the second Coach of the Year honor of his career.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Collier and Curry Corral Weekly Award</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/POTW2-23-26</link>
      <description>RaKiya Collier (Terra State) and Malcom Curry (Edison State) are representing the conference as the OCCAC Basketball Players of the Week for Feb. 16-22.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Weekly Award Winners for Feb. 9-15</title>
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      <description>Rylie Homan (Edison State) and John &#x201c;Favor&#x201d; McFadden (Cuyahoga) are the latest OCCAC Basketball Players of the Week after both led their squads to a pair of conference victories.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>More for the Commodores</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/POTW2-10-26</link>
      <description>The Lorain County pair of Ike Rowser and Abbey Schmitz each snagged their second OCCAC Player of the Week accolade (Feb. 2-8). That marks two in a row for Rowser and the third career honor for Schmitz.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rowser, Wagner Rise Above the Rest</title>
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      <description>Ike Rowser (Lorain County) and Hazely Wagner (Hocking) shined the brightest as the calendar flipped to February &#x2014; both unanimous selections for the latest OCCAC Player of the Week distinction (Jan. 26-Feb.1).</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Latest Player of the Week Awards</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/POTW1-26-26</link>
      <description>Jessica Brown (Terra State), Frank Latham (Edison State) and their respective squads all went 2-0 last week, springboarding this pair of student-athletes to earning OCCAC Player of the Week honors for Jan. 19-25.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>OCCAC All-Academic Team Announced for Fall 2025</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/AcademicFall2025</link>
      <description>Nearly 50 programs representing all nine conference institutions placed student-athletes on the OCCAC All-Academic Team for Fall &#x2019;25. A 3.30 grade-point average with 12 completed credit hours is required to receive the honor.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chase Abraham Tapped as OCCAC Player of the Week</title>
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      <description>Two conference victories maintained top standing for Cuyahoga Men's Basketball with a 6-0 OCCAC mark, and led to the league's Player of the Week honor going to freshman guard Chase Abraham.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sharpshooting Pair Nails Player of the Week Awards</title>
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      <description>DC Lanier (Owens) and Darian Leslie (Edison State) were knocking down shots left and right, both averaging north of 25 points per game, leading to the OCCAC honoring each as the Player of the Week for Jan. 5-11.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>First Weekly Honors of 2026</title>
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      <description>Rylie Homan (Edison State) and Jayveon Roe (Lorain County) started off 2026 with a bang, earning the year&#x2019;s first OCCAC Player of the Week honors.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fresh Faces Claim OCCAC&#x2019;s Weekly Laurels</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/POTW12-22-25</link>
      <description>First-time honorees Andre McCullough (Terra State) and Abbey Schmitz (Lorain County) are the OCCAC Basketball Players of the Week for Dec. 15-21.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trio of Student-Athletes Named OCCAC Players of the Week</title>
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      <description>Tariq Johnson (Hocking) poured in 60 points during a pair of road games, averaging 30.0 per game on 22-of-36 shooting (61%) including 4-of-8 from beyond the arc, to earn his first career OCCAC Player of the Week honor. Meanwhile, La&#x2019;Nia Moore (Cuyahoga) is back for the third consecutive week and fourth time this season, sharing this week&#x2019;s laurel with the last honoree not named La&#x2019;Nia Moore to win the award, in Liv Mullins (Owens) who is now a two-time winner.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Repeat Honorees Regain Player of the Week Status</title>
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      <description>La&#x2019;Nia Moore (Cuyahoga) and Darian Leslie (Edison State) were both unanimous selections for the latest OCCAC Player of Week awards announced on Dec. 8.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Latham and Moore Rise Above the Rest in Week 6</title>
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      <description>Frank Latham (Edison State) and La&#x2019;Nia Moore (Cuyahoga) concluded November with big-time performances worthy of OCCAC Player of the Week recognition for Nov. 24-30. Lathem collects his first such honor while Moore brings home her second award in the last four weeks.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Week 5 Award Winners Announced</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/POTW11-24-25</link>
      <description>Nnamdi Ajaezu (Clark State) and Liv Mullins (Owens) are the OCCAC Basketball Players of the Week for Nov. 17-23 after each averaged 19 points and more than 13 rebounds per game.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Impressive Outings Lead to OCCAC Accolades</title>
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      <description>Brandon Cramer (Clark State) and Doriana Hastings-Peterson (Cuyahoga) each elevated their basketball teams to victory with big-time individual performances, earning OCCAC Player of the Week recognition.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Week 3 &#x2014; OCCAC Basketball Awards</title>
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      <description>A pair of first-time honorees, La&#x2019;Nia Moore (Cuyahoga) and Darian Leslie (Edison State) earned the OCCAC Player of the Week honors for Nov. 3-9.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chargers Sweep Opening Week&#x2019;s Basketball Awards</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/BKB-POTW11-3-25</link>
      <description>Malcolm Curry and Presley Reese doubled up the OCCAC Basketball Player of the Week recognition for Week 1, both bringing the honor to Edison State&#x2019;s campus following victorious season openers.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>OCCAC Men&#x2019;s Basketball Preseason Honors</title>
      <link>https://www.occac.org/PreseasonMBB25-26</link>
      <description>OCCAC Men&#x2019;s Basketball Preseason Honors&#xD;
Coaches from around the Ohio Community College Athletics Conference selected 12 student-athletes to receive Preseason Men&#x2019;s Basketball recognition &#x2014; split between the Preseason All-OCCAC Team and the Preseason All-Newcomer Team.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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