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| Teddy Hawkins, Gary Akbar, and Andre Yates |
While CPHR took in a heavyweight clash in Dayton, several area teams battled it out in some of the most meaningful conference games of the season.......
Dayton Dunbar Photos
- Dayton Dunbar 79 Dayton Thurgood Marshall 53: Fans flocked in to Wright State's Nutter Center Arena for the 9 PM climax of the Dayton city league triple header as Dunbar left no doubt that they are worthy of the #1 ranking in Ohio for Division II. Senior combo forward Deontae "Teddy" Hawkins, a 6'8 senior headed to Wichita State next year, scored 22 points on a variety of 17 foot jumpers and shot putbacks while fellow senior Andre Yates, a strong guard headed to Creighton next year, added in 21 points on both long range jumpers and takes to the rim. Senior wing Gary Akbar, a 6'4 Cleveland State signee, chipped in 9 points for Dunbar; as did freshman sensation AJ Harris, a point guard. Thurgood, playing without second leading scorer Mark Alstork, was led by their usual top scorer in senior guard Joe Thomasson, a Wright State commit, who scored 21 points in the loss. Sophomore PG RaChaun Martin added 11 points for Thurgood Marshall.
- Lakota West 73 Mason 65: JB's Pick Six game went down to the wire as the Firebirds pulled the road upset behind the 25 points (9/14 shooting) and 8 rebounds of junior guard Monty Boykins. West's other top scorers were junior guard Ali barnes with 17 and senior post Jackson Blue with 16. In the loss Mason was led by the game high 26 points of JD Sprague.
- Withrow 60 West High 44: Playing without junior forward Devin Williams, senior forward Tyler Jordan stepped up with a game high 16 points, while junior guard Tim Coleman added 12 points, in a Tigers win. Tyonte Robertson added 9 points and 8 assists as a sophomore guard for Withrow while senior post Rozelle Nix chipped in 8 points, 14 rebounds, and 4 blocks.
- Aiken 50 Hughes 45: Austin Grimes, a junior guard, scored 18 points, Willie Moore, a senior guard, scored 11, and sophomore guard Correy Cavins added 8 in a Falcons win.
- Woodward 63 Shroder 57: Sophomore forward Devon Johnson scored 17 points in the Bulldogs win.
- Fairfield 50 Colerain 36: Senior guard James Turner scored a game high 13 points, while senior center Brandon Murphy added 12 points and 14 rebounds, in an Indians win.
- Princeton 69 Oak Hills 42: Senior post De'arius Young led four double figure Viking scorers with 14 points in the win.
- Middletown 62 Sycamore 45: Vincent Edwards, a sophomore forward, scored 22 points with 15 rebounds in the Middies win, while senior guard Geovonie McKnight added 15 points.
- Lakota East 61 Hamilton 54: Freshman Dylan Lowry was among four double figure Thunderhawk scorers with 11 points in the win.
- Moeller 57 St. Xavier 46: Senior guard Jake Cummings led Moeller with 17 points while junior wing Josh Davenport contributed 13 points and 8 rebounds in the win. Junior guard Joe Barrett led the Bombers with 15 points in the loss.
- Winton Woods 60 Talawanda 27: Junior forward Trent Donald led the Warriors with 15 points and 9 rebounds in the blowout win.
- Walnut Hills 73 Loveland 36: Junior post Isaiah Johnson led the Eagles with 23 points and 13 rebounds.
- LaSalle 58 Elder 37: A huge second half kept the Lancers undefeated in the GCL.
- Northwest 57 Ross 55
- Roger Bacon 81 Purcell Marian 43
- Badin 46 McNicholas 33
- Madeira 67 Finneytown 60
- Summit 56 St. Bernard 24
- Lockland 62 CHCA 36
- Indian Hill 45 Mariemont 44
- Clark 69 Cincinnati Christian 52
Dunbar obvisiously dismantled Thurgood without their junior guard leader and most effective all arouund player in the state Mark Alstork. With Alstork playing Thurgood most likely wins this or makes it a much closer game. When he is on the floor he makes Thurgood Marshall so better offensively,defensively and everything else because he does so much each time they play. Dunbar will see Thurgood in the tournament and I take Thurgood willing the win behind Alstork play, they really missed him both games he was out, huge lose, but now his back huge release off Thommason and Coach shoulders.
ReplyDeleteNo one loves Mark's game more then me, when he was younger I coached him in AAU. I was at the Withrow game and thought that both calls against him were bad, especially the hanging on the rim one. That being said Thurgood lost this game by 26 points! No player on either team can make up a 26 point deficit.
ReplyDeleteI think Thurgood fans need to accept that Dunbar has the better team this season. But, Dunbar probably had the better team last year and Thurgood upset them in the regionals; that could easily happen again. But you can't take anything away from Dunbar from last night's performance. With or without Mark it wasn't even going to be in doubt. Too much Teddy and Dre, remember Akbar only played about a half due to foul trouble.
I agree with Scouting Ohio. Alstork is the best all around player in the state and have to do the most each time they step on the court for them to win. Both teams are equally talented and everytime they play you'll never no who has the edge. Just like the regionals last year Alstork put up 22pts and 9rebs to lead them to state. So Mark Alstork is the biggest piece to Thurgood for them to be state bound again, Alstork really gonna have to put on a hell of a show for the rest of the year and his built to do it.
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