Weekend wrap – Thomas moves on
Alyssa Thomas has had some memorable games in her varsity career for Central Dauphin (Pa.) High.
Saturday's game against Cheltenham, however, might top the list of Thomas' standout performances. Thanks to the Maryland-bound small forward, the Rams are headed to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class AAAA semifinals.
The Rams' forward dropped 40 points, 20 rebounds and two blocks in her best Wilt Chamberlain impression at Reading High, as Cheltenham fell, 75-68, in the PIAA Class AAAA quarterfinals.
Thomas has also been selected to the Parade All-American first team, according to the Erie (Pa.) Times-News.
• Quality Education Academy (N.C.) forward Juvonte Reddic, who had some Maryland interest, has committed to Virginia Commonwealth.
Scout.com describes Reddic as "one of the top available post players in the country." He averaged 16 points, 15 rebounds and 4 blocks for Quality Education Academy, a charter school in Winston-Salem.
• DeMatha -- led by UM junior targets Quinn Cook and Mikael Hopkins -- came up one game short of the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament championship. The Stags on Saturday fell to Gonzaga (D.C.), 68-67.
Cook had a game-high 17 points, five rebounds and four assists for DeMatha (32-4), while Oladipo, Jerian Grant and Mikael Hopkins had 14 points.
• Penn Wood swingman and potential Terps target Aaron Brown guided the Patriots to a 66-55 win over Scranton in the PIAA Class AAAA quarterfinals.
Leading only 26-23, Aaron Brown, a 6-foot-5 junior, spearheaded a 23-point quarter with 12 of his 22, including a powerful dunk from the baseline.
Comments
Matt - do you have any idea why we didnt offer Reddic? just not interested? grades?
Posted by: Steve | March 22, 2010 10:54 AM
Matt-Where do we stand with C J Leslie amd Moses Abraham? We need some bigs as Michigan killed us on the boards.
Posted by: Warren C Lansdowne | March 22, 2010 11:52 AM
We have big men on the team or coaching staff, James Padget, Steve Goins, Jerome Burney, Burney would have been great on this team, Goins could have done something, too bad they both were injured. Padget I hope makes the jump like L. Baxter from FR to SO. Will Goins be back next year?
Posted by: Joe | March 22, 2010 1:02 PM
I just want to cut and paste an answer from Wilbon's sports chat today on area kids not going to Maryland OR Georgetown. I tried to articulate it in comments a couple weeks ago, but here is another opinion:
washington DC: The Washington Dc area produces a wealth of basketball talent. Why don't more of the talented high school basketball youth end up attending Maryland or Georgetown?
Michael Wilbon: Because kids want to go away to school. Every big city loses most of its talented kids. NYC, Chicago, Atlanta...their kids are scattered everywhere. You don't think I wish Evan Turner had stayed in Chicago and gone to Northwestern? Look, I went to college 30 minutes from where I grew up, but that's becuase the best journalism school in America happened to be located there and I'd have been crazy to go elsewhere...But I understand why kids who have the chance want to leave home...and I think in the vast majority of cases, they should leave.
Just some perspective that lots of big cities lose alot of local kids. DC is no different than NY or LA or Chicago.
Posted by: Mikepcfl | March 22, 2010 2:45 PM
Steve -- Not sure on that. The Times-Dispatch article says he'll be qualified, but Maryland's standards are often tougher than other schools'. Either way, Maryland wasn't the only high-major to bow out.
Warren C -- Leslie revealed his top five last week, and the Terps weren't on that list. Abraham won't end up in College Park.
Posted by: Matt Bracken | March 22, 2010 10:49 PM