St. Marys junior Addie Davis was a repeat selection on the first team and was honored by league coaches as the Little Kanawha Conference’s Player of the Year. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

PARKERSBURG — St. Marys’ Addie Davis can pretty much do it all on the basketball court.

Although the Blue Devils’ season came to a close in a regional co-final overtime loss at Williamstown, the junior was selected as the Little Kanawha Conference’s Player of the Year.

“We already know she’s a good player,” admitted SMHS head coach Fred King. “She can rebound. She can assist. She can guard.

“She can shoot and she can play, but she’s just a really good model citizen and that’s just as important as the basketball.”

Not only did Davis average 1.2 blocks, make 49 treys at 41% and also shoot 41% overall from the floor and 73% at the free-throw line on 116 attempts, but she put up 17.6 points, 5.9 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 3.8 steals an outing.

“She’s a warrior,” stressed King. “I can’t think of anybody else I’ve ever been around in my life that’s put the time and energy into what she’s done. Her parents have sacrificed obviously with their time and resources to put her in a position to get to where she’s got. She gets personalized training from certain people.

“She goes to Clarksburg every week to work with Jarrod West. He’s helped her with her game and she plays travel. She’s always in the gym. She’s a gym rat and always wants to get her shots up.

“I know there are a lot of good players in the conference, but no one in my opinion deserved the Player of the Year more than she did.”

Davis three-peated as a member of the first team along with Ravenswood senior Hadleigh McGoskey.

“So blessed and thankful to be named LKC Player of the Year. Couldn’t have done it without God, coaches, teammates, family and friends,” Davis posted on X, formerly Twitter.

The Blue Devils finished runner-up in the conference to Gilmer County, but defeated the Titans at the end of the regular season to deny LKC Coach of the Year Amy Chapman’s squad a perfect 22-0 campaign.

“She’s got another year left and we are looking forward to a lot of good things in the future,” added coach King, who noted Davis battled through some illness during key stretches of the season. “Addie is the leader on the floor and in the locker room and the classroom. I watch her in school and she’s one of the nicest, sweetest, tender-hearted girls you will ever meet.

“She’s a model citizen and a model student and a model player. Leaving out basketball, all the other things that are really important in life she’s got that pretty well nailed. That’s what I think of her more than a basketball player, of course, her basketball credentials speak for themselves.”

McGoskey, who averaged 22.7 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.9 steals, 1.1 assists, canned 67 3s and shot 84% at the free-throw line, was joined on the first team by fellow Red Devil senior Emily Wratchford.

The duo helped lead the Red Devils to the Class AA state tournament semifinals. Wratchford averaged 13.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 2.5 steals, shot 41% from the field and 64% at the foul line.

Gilmer County junior Allie Ellyson, who was runner-up for top honors in the conference and helped the Titans to the single-A title game where they fell to three-time state champ Cameron, made her initial appearance on the first unit.

Ellyson averaged better than 16 points, five assists and nearly five steals a night. A 75% free-throw shooter, the point guard also shot 53% from the field.

She was joined on the first team by fellow Titan Ava Dobbins. The sophomore center, who converted 57% from the field, averaged 11.4 points, 7.0 rebounds and three blocks.

Williamstown head coach Fred Sauro’s Yellowjackets, who defeated Doddridge County in the LKC consolation game before finishing as Class AA state runner-up to defending champion Wyoming East, landed Faith Pickens and Riley Landis on the first team.

The pivot Pickens, who has a year left, shot 46% and averaged 14.3 points, 11.8 caroms and 1.5 blocks. Landis made three dozen treys, shot 67% at the charity stripe and averaged right at 12 points and three dimes an outing.

Parkersburg Catholic also had a duo on the first team thanks to seniors Mary Tokodi-Ruth (12.4 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 3.6 apg, 2.4 spg) and Jocelynn Thorn (10.8 ppg, 1.5 apg, 2.4 spg, 79% FT, 50 made 3s).

Tenley Paugh represented Doddridge County on the first team. In her final year for the Bulldogs, Paugh put up 9.8 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 3.4 steals a game.

Also earning nods on the first team were a pair of Davis’ teammates in senior Breanna Price (9.8 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 3.4 apg, 2.6 spg, 66% FT) and freshman Brynnley Bulluck (11.1 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 2.5 apg, 2.0 spg, 45% FG, 76% FT).

Landis, Pickens, Tokodi-Ruth and Ellyson were repeat selections on the first team.

Williamstown’s Quinn Bunch and Arissa Burt were named to the All-LKC second unit along with Roane County teammates Hope Mason and Piper Harlan.

Tyler Consolidated’s Jules Lattea, who helped the Silver Knights reach the state tournament for the first time since 2003, comprised the rest of the second team along with Ritchie County’s Elsa Law, Wirt County’s Skylar Bunch, Gilmer County’s Lena Frymier, Wahama’s Fiona Vanmatre, Doddridge County’s Aleigh Cheeseman, South Harrison’s Halle Bland and Clay County’s Ilyauna Evans.

Contact Jay Bennett at jbennett@newsandsentinel.com