Nine Alaska women have recorded 200 career steals in college basketball and two of them reached the benchmark this season, playing for the same team, no less.

Adams State teammates from Alaska, Elaina Watson and Angelline Nageak, achieved the feat 19 days apart. Before them the last Alaskan to get 200 steals was Utah State’s Jenna Johnson of Wasilla in 2013.

Last week, Watson racked up five steals against Eastern New Mexico and added six steals against Angelo State to help her earn RMAC Defensive Player of the Week honors.

The 5-foot-7 senior guard also surpassed the 700-point plateau and ranks sixth among Colony High alum in college scoring, needing 81 points to move into the top 5 and catch former Jacksonville University standout Shannon Wynn, who scored 782 points from 1997 to 2001.

Nageak, a 5-foot-5 senior guard out of Dimond High, is right on Watson’s heels in scoring with 683 points. She’s also 11 assists shy of reaching 300 for her career.

At UAF, Chris Lee of Ketchikan pumped in a season-high 28 points against Multnomah over the weekend and now leads the GNAC in scoring at 19.2 points per game.

The 6-foot-1 junior guard has not been shy about shooting, putting up 16 or more shots in four of his first five games in a Nanooks’ uniform. He finished 19-of-42 from the field in the two-game series against Multnomah.

Lee last season was named NWAC North Region Player of the Year after he averaged 19.8 points for Edmonds College and in high school was a 1,900-point scorer, making this smooth Southeast playmaker a certified bucket getter.

In Saturday’s 85-84 win over Multnomah, he scored 17 of his team’s 41 points in the second half when UAF rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit. Lee’s 3-pointer put the Nanooks ahead 75-74 and his assist on Isaiah Saams-Hoy’s 3 put Fairbanks up for good at 84-81 with 1:18 remaining.

At Western Colorado, Rachel Cockman of Cantwell collected back-to-back double-doubles in a pair of victories. The team has won four in a row since the Mt. McKinley Bank North Star Invitational, which she was named MVP in her homecoming to the Interior.

The former West Valley High star had 18 points and 11 rebounds against Northern New Mexico and added 15 and 10 a few days later against St. Edward’s.

Cockman, a 6-foot-2 senior forward, has accumulated 908 career points and would be the fourth former West Valley Wolfpack player to reach the 1K mark at the college level, joining Ruthy Hebard, Debbie Benson and Casey Miller.

Cockman ranks fourth in the RMAC in FG% (.533) and is eighth in rebounding (8.0).

AK HOOPS NOTES

• At Fort Lewis College, former Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year Stewart Erhart of Fairbanks matched his season high of 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting in a 68-53 victory over Bowie State. Making his second consecutive start, the 6-foot-2 redshirt freshman logged 21 minutes and made two steals to give him 16 in eight games. He’s averaging 6.8 points and 2.8 rebounds with a high of nine boards against Western New Mexico.
• At Wofford University, Indiya Clarke of Wasilla came off the bench to dish off a career-high five assists in Tuesday’s 75-56 victory over UNC Asheville. The former Colony High standout played 21 minutes and added seven points on 3-of-6 shooting. The 5-foot-11 junior guard has season highs of 13 points and nine rebounds against Southern Wesleyan.
• At Bellevue College, Aysha Peter of Fairbanks picked up her shooting en route to scoring 14 points in a 70-51 win over Southwestern Oregon. Coming into the game she had made 10-of-32 shots but in Sunday’s victory she was good on 6-of-9 shots. The 5-foot-9 freshman forward out of West Valley High is averaging 13.3 points and 5.0 rebounds in three games.
• At Highline Community College, Kayden Lamebull-Ingram of Anchorage has reached double figures in all three appearances this season keyed by his 17 points in 18 minutes in Tuesday’s 83-72 win over Shoreline. The 5-foot-9 guard made 5-of-6 shots and is shooting .545% overall. The former Grace Christian standout ranks second among Alaskans in NWAC scoring at 13 points per game.
• At Missouri Southern State, Jamari Lawrence of Anchorage has been all or nothing in his first four appearances with his new team. The Southwestern Christian College transfer out of West High has two games with 15 and 12 points to go with two scoreless games. The 6-foot-1 junior guard has made 9-of-21 3-pointers.
• At Mt. Hood Community College, Anchorage’s Mat Choul along with former West Valley High teammates Sawyer Petersen and Leyton Nield of Fairbanks were in the starting lineup for a recent game against Green River in the NWAC. Nield had 14 points and four rebounds while Choul had five points, four rebounds and two assists while. Petersen didn’t score but added three boards and two assists.
• By my count, there are at least 105 Alaskans playing college basketball this season. That’s gotta be a record.