FIRST ROUND GOES TO SILSBEEYet another enticing district opener came in District 21-3A as No. 7
Silsbee withstood No. 11 Sour Lake Hardin-Jefferson for a 64-56 victory. The Tigers improve to 20-2, 1-0 while the Hawks drop to 22-5, 0-1.
Silsbee rode the talents of 6-4 senior
D.C. Stallworth to victory. Stallworth finished with 19 points, but more importantly had 14 of those in the fourth quarter as Silsbee opened the quarter with a 13-0 dash to assume a seven-point it would maintain.
The loss snapped a 13-game winning streak for Hardin-Jefferson while Silsbee won its ninth in a row.
Shawn Prudhomme led the Hawks with 22 points.
IN MEMORIAM: TIFFANI ARTTThe high school basketball coaching community lost one of its very bravest when
Conrad (Dallas) girls coach Tiffani Artt died after an 18-month-long battle with cancer. She was 39.
Artt began her 18-year coaching career at Texas Pleasant Grove and fashioned an 89-49 record in five years with the Lady Hawks. She also coached at Kaufman and Royse City and most recently was at Dallas Molina before moving over to Conrad.
The Coach Tiffani Artt Scholarship has been established to help female athletes from Dallas ISD fulfill dreams of coaching and teaching. For more information call 479-717-1900.
REESE'S PIECESBryan junior
J-Mychal Reese had a monster game in delivering a career-high 52 points to help the Vikings to a 113-79 District 12-5A win over Belton. Reese's stat line was sensational as he hit 18 of his 21 shot attempts and was 6 of 8 from 3-point territory. He also had six assists, five rebounds, three steals and one blocked shot to go along with no turnovers.
Reese had 18 points in the second quarter and hit the 50-point mark with a basket and foul shot with 3:18 left. He also had the final points of the game on the first dunk of his high school career.
COACHING MILESTONESCoach Jason Fossett of the
Killeen boys and Melissa Hernandez of the
Angleton girls both enjoyed career win No. 300 last week. Hernandez hit the mark as her team knocked off Bay City, 43-28, while Fossett reached the plateau as the Kangaroos beat Waco University, 77-45.
R.V. Baugus is the publisher of Tex Preps Basketball magazine and texprepsbasketball.com.
