Whitehouse's Tayla Morris. (Whitehouse ISD)

Whitehouse’s Tayla Morris has earned Tyler Morning Telegraph Girls Basketball Player of the Week honors for games played Nov. 11-16.

The junior guard averaged 17.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 4.0 steals per game in wins over Center and Ennis.

Morris had 14 points, six rebounds, six assists and five steals in a 60-41 win over Center. She followed that with 21 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals in the victory against Ennis.

In other outstanding performances in the area last week (nominated by coaches):

Tyler’s Kalyse Buffin averaged 16.3 points, 12.0 rebounds and 8.8 assists as the Lady Lions went 3-1 with wins over Richland, Eagle Mountain and LD Bell and a loss to Mansfield Summit. Buffin had 18 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists against Richland; 18 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists against Mansfield Summit; 4 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists against Eagle Mountain; and 25 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists against LD Bell.

Brownsboro’s Chyann Stidham averaged 8.0 points, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals as the Bearettes went 5-0 with wins over Bullard, Palestine Westwood, Frankston, Arp and Athens. Kynsie Daniels averaged 11.0 points, 2.5 steals and 5.8 deflections per game.

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East Texas teams ranked in the TABC rankings are Brownsboro (5-1) No. 15, Canton (3-1) No. 18 and Bullard (4-1) No. 23 in 4A; Rains (27-2) No. 3, Winnsboro (8-1) No. 1, Tatum (0-0) No. 11 and Hooks (3-0) No. 15 in 3A; Martin’s Mill (4-0) No. 1, Douglass (4-0) No. 8, LaPoynor (4-1) No. 16, Lovelady (2-1) No. 17, Chireno (4-0) No. 18 and Tenaha (2-2) No. 24 in 2A; Slocum (3-1) No. 10; Broaddus (2-1) No. 11, Brookeland (4-0) No. 15, Neches (0-0) No. 19 and Martinsville (2-1) No. 23 in Class 1A; Grace Community (4-3) No. 9 in TAPPS 5A; Bishop Gorman (2-0) No. 10 in TAPPS 4A; Longview Christian Heritage (2-1) No. 8 in TAPPS 2A; and Athens Christian Prep (3-0) No. 4 and Longview St. Mary’s (2-2) No. 9 in TAPPS 1A.

East Texas teams ranked in the txhsgbb.com rankings are Canton No. 18, Sulphur Springs No. 21 and Brownsboro No. 22 in 4A; Winnsboro No. 3, Tatum No. 8, Rains No. 11, Hooks No. 17 and Malakoff No. 23 in 3A; Martin’s Mill No. 1, Chireno No. 13, Tenaha No. 14, Lovelady No. 15, LaPoynor No. 22 and Douglass No. 24 in 2A; and Neches No. 2 and Broaddus No. 6 in 1A.

East Texas teams ranked in the TGCA rankings are Winnsboro No. 1 and Jefferson No. 2 in 3A; Martin’s Mill No. 1, Douglass No. 2, Mount Enterprise No. 3 and Cayuga No. 7 in 2A; and Brookeland No. 3 in 1A.

Coaches are asked to send in their nominations to bogden@tylerpaper.com or sports@tylerpaper.com by 11 a.m. each Tuesday.

— Ogden can be reached at bogden@tylerpaper.com