Amesha Miller has been phenomenal this season when the King’s Fork High School girls’ basketball team has needed her the most.

The star junior forward put in an outstanding week on the hardwood during the Conference 17 tournament, helping deliver her team the championship and leading to her becoming the Duke Automotive-Suffolk News-Herald Player of the Week.

“I think it was pretty decent,” Miller said of her play that week.

She produced 22 points, 17 rebounds and five blocks in the Lady Bulldogs’ 59-50 victory over visiting Woodrow Wilson High School in the tourney title game on Feb. 19.

The win was vindication for King’s Fork after it had come up short in its last two meetings with the Lady Presidents.

It is worth noting that in the teams’ first meeting this season, on Feb. 1, the visiting Lady Bulldogs won 66-64 in double overtime, thanks in large part to Miller’s 26-point, 21-rebound performance that included the deciding basket with 10 seconds remaining in the game.

In the conference tournament semifinals on Feb. 17, she lent 20 points and 15 rebounds to King’s Fork’s 67-51 victory over Lake Taylor High School that helped the Lady Bulldogs clinch a regional tournament berth.

“She had a great week,” KF coach Maurice Fofana said, though he noted it was no surprise. “It’s expected for her to have a double-double.”

He said that heading into the conference tournament, she was averaging 18.6 points, 11 rebounds and about two to three blocks per game.

Miller has been on the varsity team since her freshman year and shown growth each year as a basketball player.

Since her sophomore year, Fofana said, she has developed in certain areas — “in being able to shoot the ball, being able to handle the ball, knowledge of the game.” Miller used to rely more heavily on quick rebounds and put-backs to generate points, Fofana added.

“Playing with different people and playing against different types of competition has really helped me get to where I am now,” Miller said. “I think I’ve gotten stronger and my confidence level has gone up.”

She pointed to confidence as a major factor in her play.

Toward the end of last season, she began to be double-teamed. This season, it happens essentially every game, and she has developed the confidence to handle it.

“When I see two people, I don’t get scared,” she said. “I just say, ‘OK, this is an opportunity for the rest of my team or an opportunity for me also to get open or move around more and help my team out so other people can score.’”

Miller has clear aspirations to play college basketball, and she has had interest from schools at the Division I and II levels, including Hampton University, Old Dominion University, the College of William & Mary and South Carolina State University.