Three-time North Callaway basketball all-stater Samantha Heck has made a verbal commitment to Evansville (Ind.) University for the 2009-10 school year.

Now a senior, Heck averaged 19.1 points,13.8 rebounds and 5.1 assists last winter for the Ladybirds and has career totals so far of 1,653 points, 989 rebounds and 332 assists in 79 games for NorCal.

Last year, Evansville posted a 21-12 overall record, earning a share of its first Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title. The Purple Aces advanced to the Postseason WNIT, where they knocked off Southeast Missouri State before falling to Kansas in the second round.