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March 21, 2008

Another misstep

As now former Arundel pitcher Tyler Hibbs ponders his future, there's word from Kentucky of a high school basketball recruit who has had his scholarship offer rescinded.

Jonathan "Bud" Mackey, a 6-foot-4 guard from Georgetown, Ky., was confronted on school grounds by the principal and assistant principal last fall and found to have had five pieces of crack cocaine, totaling 1.6 grams, as well as $29 in his shoes. Mackey was charged with trafficking cocaine as well as trafficking within 1,000 yards of a school zone, both felonies.

Mackey said he was delivering the cocaine to someone and despite his never having been in trouble before, Indiana, which had accepted his verbal agreement before, took back its scholarship offer.

Mackey left his original high school and transferred to a prep school in Ohio, where he was paired in the backcourt with a kid who accepted the scholarship that was taken from Mackey. Mackey, meanwhile, was indicted last month by a Kentucky grand jury and continues to play at his new school.

Posted by Milton Kent at 7:05 AM | | Comments (0)
        

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