File photo by Kendall ShawSemi Ojeleye, Ottawa
Duke University basketball recruit
Semi Ojeleye exploded for 57 points over the weekend as
Ottawa (Kan.) routed Paola (Kan.) 77-30. The 6-foot-8, 215-pound senior had scored a career-high 58 points earlier in the season during a 102-29 rout of Wray (Colo.).
Junior guard
Justin Coleman (5-9, 155) of
Wenonah (Birmingham, Ala.) scored a career-high 56 points during a 90-89 double-overtime loss to three-time Class 3A defending state champion
Columbia (Decatur, Ga.). He drilled 15-of-28 shots from the field and 22-olf-23 from the free throw line. It marked the first loss for Wenonah, which has won the last two Class 5A state titles in Alabama.
*Senior guard
Anders Broman scored 49 points, but
Lakeview Christian Academy (Duluth, Minn.) suffered a 96-68 loss to
West Lutheran (Plymouth, Minn.). Anders now has a boys state-record 4,297 career points and counting.
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Chase Davis, a 6-6 senior, scored 47 points as
Garland Christian Academy (Garland, Texas) nipped Lakehill Prep (Dallas, Texas) 75-73 in overtime. He poured in 30 of his team's 45 points after the third quarter and made all 12 free throw attempts.
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St. James (Murrells Inlet, S.C.) outlasted Conway (S.C.) 70-64 in a four-overtime thriller.
Caleb Duggan led the way with 25 points.
*Already loaded with talent,
Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) expects to enroll, perhaps, the premier player in Australia this month, assistant coach Ray Miller told MaxPreps. He is 6-8 sophomore Ben Simmons, who turned recruiters' heads during summer camp action in the U.S. Miller said that he is going to enroll, but might not play until his junior year. No decision has yet been made.
*Dale Mabrey became the third coach in Kentucky history to record 800 victories when
Pleasure Ridge Park (Louisville, Ky.) defeated Southern (Louisville, Ky.) 82-39.
*The Charlotte Observer reported that the Jordan Brand Classic all-star basketball game is being moved from Charlotte, N.C., and will be held at the new Barclays Center, home of the NBA Brooklyn Nets, in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 13.