Cougars receive post-season awards, Walker named MVP

Three Barton Community College men's basketball players recently received post-season honors on the All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) West Division with one landing on the All-Region VI Division I team.  Sophomore Ahmad Walker headlined the three being named as the Most Valuable Player in both the Jayhawk West and Region VI, as well as, an obvious first team selection on both teams.  Sophomores Jalin Barnes and Kenny Enoch also garnered honors being selected honorable mention Jayhawk West. The triplets anchored the Cougars to a 24-7 record and a second place in the rugged Jayhawk West with a 12-4 record.  Finishing just outside the final NJCAA Division I poll, Barton spent time in the Top-25 splitting the season series with No. 7 Butler Community College while sweeping No. 23 Hutchinson Community College.  

Walker, a sophomore transfer from Stony Brook University, led the Jayhawk West in scoring at 20.6 points per game and was second in assists at 5.5 dimes per contest.  The 6'4" native of Port Washington, New York, also hauled down a fifth best 7.7 rebounds and recorded ten double-doubles throughout the season.  Eclipsing the twenty-point mark fifteen times in his twenty-seven games played, Walker surpassed the thirty-point mark three times posting a career high thirty-two points in a two-point win over Dodge City Community College on February 4.  With a school third best 12-for-12 performance at the charity stripe on January 24, Walker went on to finish his one season as a Cougar in the third spot in both single season made free throws (190) and attempts (253) while shooting a Jayhawk West eighth best 75.1%.

Barnes ranked third on the team at 13.7 points per game as the sophomore transfer from Howard College led the Cougars with fifty-four steals.  Originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, Barnes led the team in minutes played being in the starting role all but one of the Cougars' thirty-one games played.  Reaching double figures in all but seven games, Barton eclipsed the twenty-point mark five times hitting a career high twenty-five points three times.

The silent assassin for the Cougars, Enoch could light it up from long distance any night.  Averaging a team second best 14.1 points per game, the Indianapolis, Indiana, native knocked down a trey in all but three of his thirty-one games.  In the starting role for thirty of those, the sixth best three-point shooter in the Jayhawk West connected on 44.3% from long range while finishing at over fifty percent from the field overall.  Transferring to Barton from Trinity Valley Community College, Enoch left his mark in school history knocking down a record tying nine treys in a 9-of-14 performance on February 25, 2015, in the Cougars nine-point win over Cloud County Community College.