{"id":10247,"date":"2011-12-21T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=10247"},"modified":"2012-01-09T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T21:47:53","slug":"yoders-pulls-in-player-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/yoders-pulls-in-player-of-the-week-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoders Pulls In Player Of The Week Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year,\u00a0<strong><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/wbkb\/2011-12\/bios\/yoders%20kala%20jzoo\" target=\"_blank\">Kala Yoders<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Myerstown, PA\/ELCO) earned a starting role late in the season and was named the ODAC Rookie of the Year.\u00a0 This year, she continues to step up her play and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference named her the Player of the Week for her play over Dec. 12-18.<\/p>\n<p>Yoders scored her season high for the second straight game on Saturday as the Royals topped Shenandoah, 60-48, in their only game over the stretch.\u00a0 She also set a season high in rebounds and notched her first double double, 20 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Yoders is now second on the team with 11.0 points per game and third with 5.9 rebounds a game.\u00a0 She is also seventh in the ODAC in defensive rebounds and ninth in field goal percentage (50.7%).<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time the 5-10 sophomore has been named ODAC Player of the Week.\u00a0 She also garnered the award in the final week of the 2010-11 season.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Mennonite heads into the Christmas break with a 7-1 record, including 4-1 in the ODAC.\u00a0 The Royals return to action on Tuesday, Jan. 3, when they host Lynchburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year,\u00a0Kala Yoders\u00a0(Myerstown, PA\/ELCO) earned a starting role late in the season and was named the ODAC Rookie of the Year.\u00a0 This year, she continues to step up her play <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/yoders-pulls-in-player-of-the-week-honors\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Yoders Pulls In Player Of The Week Honors<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":10248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4516,5173],"tags":[13628,11672],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-10247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-womens-basketball","tag-kala-yoders","tag-odac"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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