It's crunch time for Player of the Year and Coach of the Year considerations for The Bee's All-Star boys basketball team. What do you think?
PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
Greg Smith, jr., Edison: Central Section's most powerful player put on a dunk-and-hook show in the post-season for Tigers team that won the section Division II title and advanced to the Southern California Regional D-II finals.
Elliott Berry, sr., Clovis West: Inside force as scorer, defender and rebounder, he was co-Player of the Year in the section's premier league, the Tri-River Athletic Conference. And that says plenty.
John Hedrington, jr., Clovis East: He was a Bee All-Star as a sophomore, this season's Bee preseason Player of the Year and shared the TRAC co-Player of the Year award with Berry. And he powered the Timberwolves to the section D-I title.
COACH OF THE YEAR
Arturo Ormond, Edison: Found a point guard, developed chemistry and, at the end of the day, delivered the section's most feared team in a 28-5 season that counted a 19-game winning streak.
Brad Felder, Hanford: Bullpups won 19 straight, section D-III championship and one SoCal Regional game in school-record 31-4 season. He's won 351 games in a 17-year career.
Pat Geil, Memorial: After losing to Garces for the section D-IV title, the Panthers -- as a No. 6 seed -- upset No. 3 Valley Christian-Cerritos and No. 2 Horizon-San Diego to remain the lowest seed standing of all five divisions in the SoCal Regional finals. The Panthers finished 26-9.
congratulations to all..........also want to let you know that 3oo 14 yr old basketball players were invited to compete in the adidas camp they held in sacramento, a few of our boys from Clovis West were well represented, including Lance Casey a 8th grader from Kasner Middle School, He placed amoung the top 100 in the Country.........He was the boy that won the $1000 from the Clippers Organization because He made 12 shots straight .
Player of the Year: Greg Smith, nobody else is close. Runner up would be Jon Hedrington
Coach of the year- Brad Felder