News from the nest: OKWU athletes seize major KCAC honors

Mike Tupa, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
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Oklahoma Wesleyan's Stefan Cvetanovic, left, celebrates a goal during a earlier season in his OKWU career.
Oklahoma Wesleyan's Stefan Cvetanovic, left, celebrates a goal during a earlier season in his OKWU career.

A handful of Oklahoma Wesleyan University athletes rose to the top of the class in Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference action last week.

Following is the list.

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NORA PEREZ MORA

Women’s soccer

To state that Mora has put together an incredible season is like saying a ripe orange is orange.

Some things are indisputable.

With Mora closing off the front of the OKWU goal standard like an expandable aluminum blind, the Lady Eagles are 14-0 on the season and — get this — they have allowed only one goal.

Not one goal per match — one goal, period.

Mora has played the distance almost all of OKWU’s 13 shutouts and most the minutes in the rest.

In other words, she’s been the blankety-blankety-blank good.

For her shutout prowess last in the last two matches, the Women’s Soccer KCAC named her the Defensive Player of the Week.

She made a total of eight saves in the wins against Friends (Kan.), 4-0, and Southwestern (Kan.), 6-0.

She earned the honor for the first time this season.

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STEFAN CVETANOVIC

Men’s soccer

Playing like a live electrical wire with muscle and the elusiveness of a jaguar in full hunt, Cvetanovic has been a flaming offensive weapon for several seasons for the Eagles.

After a personally slow start this season, Cvetanovic heated up, which coincided with the Eagles’ turnaround from a 3-4-1 record to their current mark of 9-4-1.

During the Eagles’ six-game winning streak, Cvetanovic has scorched opponents with 18 goals, compared to only four goals his first eight matches.

For his work last week — three goals in a 6-4 win against Friends and seven shots on goal, the KCAC selected him as the Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week.

For the season, Cvetanovic has rang up 22 goals, four of them game-winners, and four assists.

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TIJANA STOJLIJKOVIC

Volleyball

It’s not an easy name to spell, but Stojliljkovic also has been an enigma for other teams to try to solve during her blockbuster freshman year for the Lady Eagles.

The 6-foot-3 middle blocker from Serbia has been one of the big reasons OKWU is off to its best ever start (29-1) — or the best-ever start for almost any team.

For her extraordinary work on the court in a win last week, Stojiljkovic as named the KCAC Volleyball Defender of the Week.

In the 3-0 sweep of Kansas Wesleyan, Stojiljkovic produced eight blocked shots, three kills and one dig.

She owns 83 blocks (including 67 assists) for the season, along with 134 kills and 36 digs.

This article originally appeared on Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: Trio of Oklahoma Wesleyan athletes honored by KCAC