CASTINE — Searsport native Melinda Ogden, a senior on the women’s basketball team at Maine Maritime Academy, has been named the 2019-2020 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) women’s basketball Player of the Year and to the conference’s first team all-conference squad. 

The international business and logistics major led the Mariners with 14.3 points per game this season and averaged 14.4 points per game against conference opponents, according to a news release. 

During the regular season Ogden became just the ninth player in program to surpass 1,000 career points, set a new single-game record for three-pointers in a game (9) and broke the career record for three-pointers made (245), the release said. 

Ogden also tied the school’s single-game record with a career-high 33 points against Northern Vermont University-Johnson. 

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