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Six players are averaging 5.5 points per game or better for Baldwin’s team, led by senior forward Shayla Nelson (10.4
“Anybody who has seen us play knows we make plenty of mistakes,” Baldwin said. “We’re not perfect. I think the defensive intensity level has come up
outscored teams by an average of 23 points per game.
senior Destiny Coleman is getting 11.4 and 8.2 rebounds a game.
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a lot the last couple games. We’ve been stressing putting a lot of pres- sure on the ball.”
Spring Valley has 9 of their rostered players seniors and they are seniors who have been in the battles. Taylor Lewis is a 5-10 forward looking for anther ring and she is currently scoring 16.1 points and grabbing 6/1 rebounds. Senior Ashley Williams is averaging 14.6 points and 6-0
Perhaps the engine pulling the Viking train of success is point guard Taylor Britt who is averaging 8.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 5.1 steals. You can call her a total package point guard.
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Goose Creek, Spring Valley teams to beat in AAAA girls hoops
From Staff Reports
ppg). The others are junior guard aniyah oliver (8.5 ppg), senior Ciera Shivers (7.6 ppg), senior forward Jas- mine Stanley (7.4 ppg), senior guard Mary Davis (6.3 ppg) and senior for- ward Daphney Saylor (5.5 ppg).
Columbia-The Spring Valley (16- 2) girls basketball team have now won three state titles in the past four years and six in their history and the main team standing in their way of a 7th title is ole nemesis Goose Creek (11-1) and the HSSR ranks the Gators number one at the mid=point of the season with those well-coached Vikings a strong number two.
Senior forward Sommer Goodman and junior guard Kolia adams are con- sistent contributors too, scoring 4.3 points per game.
“Its good people recognize us as play- ing hard and all that but it’s just January” said Goose creek veteran head coach Tim Baldwin. “Who cares who is number one in January? I want to be No. 1 after March. There are a lot of other really good teams out there.”
Nelson and Saylor lead in rebound- ing at 5.9 and 4.8 per game respectively. Oliver is out front in assists with 3.8 helpers a game and is tied with Oliver for steals in a game at 2.5 apiece.
A 64-23 win over Wando on Jan. 14 was No. 395 for Baldwin at Goose Creek (11-1, 3-0 Region 7-AAAAA).
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Goose Creek has been playing 12 players in games to get the end of the bench ready. The Gators have
Woodmont, Dorman, and Fort Dorch- ester are 3-5 behind the front runners
-Unique Drake, Westwood
-Nyah Leveretter, Westwood
-Anne Hamilton Leroy, Seneca
-Taylor Lewis, Spring Valley
-Loyal McQueen, Wilson
-Danae McNeal, Swansea
-Quadijah Moore, Emerald
-Shayla Nelson, Goose Creek
-Janelle Sindab, Mullins 5. Sumter 10. J.L. Mann kiara Cain, Sumter
Creek HSSR AAAAA Polls SCABA Top 5 Senior Girls Goose
1. Goose Creek 6. Fort Dorchester Olivia Thompson, Lexington
2. Spring Valley 7. West Ashley Xan Rowland, Woodmont
3. Woodmont 8. Lexington Jasmine Stanley, Goose Creek
4. Dorman 9. Nation Ford Ashley Williamson, Spring Valley
and Spring Valley.
ball team isn’t going to “Wow” anyone walking into any gym across the state.
What they will do it basically put five guards on the floor and battle from the opening tip until the final buzzer. So far, it’s been good
enough to have the Wildcats off to a school-record 20-0 start to the season and ranked third in the HSSR class AAAAA state-wide poll.
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of getting them the ball. They aren’t con- cerned about them- selves and that’s been the key.”
“I don’t think
we’re nearly as tal-
ented as some of the teams we’ve had here, despite the record,” veteran coach Bailey Harris said. “They aren’t as tal-
That’s certainly not
ble with 16 points and 11 rebounds in a 60-55 region win over Dutch Fork this week. The senior is nearing the 1,000- point mark for his career and has been the offensive catalyst.
fense for their teammates.”
As Harris said, there’s plenty of help
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to say these Wildcats don’t have talent. they’ve had seven different players score in double figures at least once this season.
to go around. Bradley Foulks averages 10.1 points and 6.1 assists with Jonathan Corley chipping in at 9.5 points per game. Ryan Green and Joe Long are the other two starters. Green is 6.3 points and 5.6 assists with Long adding 7 points per game.
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Lexington ranked fifth in HSSR boy’s rankings at mid-point
By Chris Dearing
Special Contributor Columbia—lexington boys basket-
ented as some of the teams, but they buy in. Probably the most im- portant thing is they aren’t worried about me and my shots or me get- ting the ball or me getting stats. They’re all about their teammates. If somebody has a good match-up or has it going, they do a good job
Ta’Lon Cooper, Dorman Zeb Graham, Nation Ford Ishan White, Berkeley
Tray Carson, Westside Sean Jenkins, Spartanburg
Dorman looks to repeat as AAAAA state champions
-Tommy Bruner, Gray Collegiate -Calvin Felder, Sumter
-Trae Hannibal, Hartsville
-PJ Hall, Dorman
Mason Carver leads the way at 19.2 points a game and despite his 6-foot frame is the team’s leading rebounder with 5.6 per game. He just had a double-dou-
“We get him on some isolation things and run him off of some screens,” Harris said of getting Carver his shots. “But if
-Tre Jackson, Blythewood -Dillon Jones, keenan -Russell Jones, Westwood -Myles Tate, Dorman -Malcolm Wilson, Ridge View
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people focus solely on Carver, Bradley Foulks, Ryan Green and Jonathan Cor- ley do a really good job of creating of-
Will Edwards is the first man off the bench and he contributes 6.2 points per game. taylor Mathias and Gavin Single- ton round out the core eight-man rotation.
1. Dorman
2. Nation Ford 3. Lexington 4. Berkeley
5. Fort Mill
6. Conway
7. Blythewood
8. River Bluff
9. Westside
10. Northwestern
Foulks is a match-up nightmare out on the perimeter. He plays bigger than his 6-2 height and can get in the lane and create his shot.
See Class AAAAA Boys, pg. 60