BARBOURVILLE, Ky. - Sophomore Brooke Smith ranks among the top offensive players in the NAIA, while the Union College women's basketball team rate in the Top 20 nationally in several categories, according to the NAIA-DakStats website.

Union, the 22nd-ranked team in NAIA Division II, is 12-4 overall and 5-0 in the Appalachian Athletic Conference.

Smith (Pineville, Ky.) ranks second in scoring nationally with a 25.3 point-per-game average and 10th in field-goal percentage as she connects on 57.6 percent of her shots. She also ranks first and second in those categories in the Appalachian Athletic Conference. Smith is also second in blocks per game (1.81) and fifth in rebounds per game (7.06).

Meanwhile, the Lady Bulldogs are second in the NAIA in field-goal percentage (48.4 percent), fourth in scoring (85.3 points per game), 10th in assists per game (18.44) and 3-point field-goal percentage (38.3 percent), 12th in 3-pointers made per game (8.125) and 19th in 3-point field-goal percentage defense (27.9 percent). Union is tops in all six categories in the Appalachian Athletic Conference.

Union is second in the conference in scoring margin with an average margin of victory of 7.00 points per game. The team is also fourth in the league in free-throw percentage at 77.2 percent, second in blocks per game at 3.25, third in steals per game with 9.56.

Susanna Todd (Eubank, Ky.) ranks second in the Appalachian Athletic Conference in 3-point field-goal percentage as she is making 43.3 percent.

Allison Fowler (Morganfield, Ky.) is second in steals per game (2.75) and fourth in assists (4.06). Meanwhile, Carley Blankenship (Lexington, Ky.) is sixth in the league for assists per game (3.38) with Ashley Lunsford (Orlando, Ky.) is seventh (3.31).

Union returns home Saturday to entertain conference foe Virginia Intermont College at 4 p.m.