By FRED KRONER
Jaethan Perez and Drake Roberts were the top scorers for the Oakwood eighth-grade boys’ basketball team.
For the team’s 22 games, they ended the year within one point of each other.
Perez scored 225 points (10.2 per-game average) and Roberts tallied 224 points (also a 10.2 per-game average).
Perez made more than half of the free throws that the Knights converted for the season. He nailed 63 shots from the free throw line out of the team’s total of 113 conversions.
Riglee Hart was the team-leader in three-point conversions (19), followed by Roberts (17), Lane Stitt (10) and Perez (nine).
Six squad members had games where they scored in double figures. Roberts had a top game of 22 points and Perez’s best was 20 points.
Others to reach double digits were Hart (17 points), Xander Wilson (14 points), Nathan Young (12 points) and Stitt (10 points).
Perez led the team – or shared the lead – in scoring nine times. Roberts was the leader or co-leader in eight games. Hart led three times, Wilson led twice and Young led once.
Other squad members who reached the scoring column during the season were Dalton Bowman, Rourke Harrison, Ethan Huchel and Rudy Hunsberger.
The Oakwood eighth-graders, coached by Parker Lee, finished the season with a 13-9 record.
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The youthful Oakwood seventh-grade boys’ basketball team had eight players score points during the season. Four were seventh-graders and the other four were sixth-graders.
Seventh-grader Bryson Deline was the team’s top scorer in 12 games. Sixth-graders were the leaders in five other games: Keatyn Bruens (three games), Camden Hazelbaker (one game) and Hunter Hubbard (one game).
Deline had the team’s top scoring average (6.9 per game) and made the most three-pointers (11). Bruens was second with seven three-point conversions.
Bruens had the squad’s top single-game scoring performance (21 points). Deline’s top scoring game was 16 points.
The remainder of the team’s roster consisted of seventh-grader Owen Fegett, Kylar Hartley and Gavin Wells along with sixth-grader Jordan Flanagan.
The seventh-grade team ended with an 0-15 record.
