With its incredible talent, depth and production, Garf called them one of the top five teams of all-time. It just felt like, its your turn to put the team on your back and close the game out for the team.. MaxPreps is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Well have a spurt in one of the quarters and thats how well win the game.. 4A Pine Crest High School. WebDunbar High School Basketball Dunbar Basketball OVERALL 16-6 0.73 Win % CONFERENCE 9-1 1st Dayton Public HOME6-1 AWAY6-4 NEUTRAL4-1 PF1408 PA1218 STREAK1W He entered the high school coaching ranks at Ridgeview High in Hickory. Koontz had taken Dunbar to a title game in 1952, although that one had been a blowout out loss for the Tigers. 1 ranked team in 1981-82. With its 29-1 mark, USA Today made .hide-if-no-js { Ross, in his first season of organized ball, accounted for seven denials and pulled down a team-high eight rebounds. Jones, who guided the Poets to five state championships, is stepping down from the position. To hold them in the 40s, which we've done all season, for the most part, it's a tribute to these guys and how hard they work," Dunbar coach Cyrus Jones Sr. said. Born in 1914, Koontz, had been a star athlete in baseball, football and basketball when he graduated from Logan High in Concord. "When it's that time when we need to turn up our defense and energy, we're going to turn it up., College Park,MD-3/9/14- Hornets #2 Darius Holmes celebrates one of his teammate's 3 point shots in the first half. 1 throughout the season and actually played better than expectations, if thats possible. He passed away in September, 2019. Drafton entered the U.S. Army in 1961 for basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2381 or mpendleton@DaytonDailyNews.com. On 2/21, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their neutral playoff game against Alvarado (TX) by a score of 68-51. Dunbar boys basketball head coach Cyrus Jones Sr. receives the state championship trophy in 2018. The Dunbar Poets beat the Fairmont Heights Hornets in the 1A boys basketball state championship match at the Xfinity Center in College Park. Dunbar ended up 29-0 and ranked No. Dunbar, which defeated the Bears, 45-41, during the regular season, trailed 34-19 in the third quarter Tuesday. Famed scout Howie Garfinkel called Williams, the kind of athletes candy bars are namedafter following his performances at Garfs 5-Star Camp in the summer of 1982. The other leading options for Dunbar males after high school were Livingstone College, working for the railroad or in the mills or military service. 195 - Nate Taylor (Center Hill High School) 22-3, On 1/30, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their neutral conference game against Thurgood Marshall (Dayton, OH) by a score of 74-66. Dunbar High Schools boys basketball team won its fifth state championship Saturday by beating Elida 54-52 at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus. They will play at Xavier against the winner of Saturdays game between Cincinnati Taft, the top seed in the Cincinnati sectionals, and Cincinnati McNicholas. Dunbarstarted out at No. WebBasketball | Kentucky High School Athletic Association Basketball The 2017 Whitaker Bank/KHSAA Boys Sweet 16 State Basketball TournamentPhoto by Tim Webb/KHSAA Prev Next Basketball General Information General and Regular Season District Tournament Info, Instructions and Forms Region Tournament Info, Instructions and Forms City, Edmondson and Lake Clifton are in Thursdays region final round. 2 DeMatha, 76-73, which snapped Baltimores longest winning streak. COLLEGE PARK For the Dunbar boys basketball team, four seasons without a state championship is a dry spell. Even with Wiley not scoring a single point, Dunbar had enough offense to take an eight-point halftime lead. Junior Damarion Geter added 11 points for Dunbar, and Yates had 10. Dunbar held on, 69-64, to win its 21st straight game. At the JohnstownTournament, 6-foot-6 Reggie Lewis(Northeastern) was tourney MVP off the bench. Stanley Clyne made four 3-pointers and scored 17 points to keep Tipp close until the final three minutes. Totals: 22 13-23 59. Koontz didnt want to see a repeat of that. I want to thank the people who gave me the opportunity, he said. Defense sparks fourth quarter close to send Bears to Class 2A North Region final, Published on: March 01, 2023 10:49 AM EST|Updated on: March 01, 2023 3:18 PM EST. Although four of the Dunbar players reached their dreams of NBA ball, it was not always a smooth ride. On 1/20, the Dunbar varsity basketball team lost their away conference game against Meadowdale (Dayton, OH) by a score of 60-54. Players off that talented 29-0 Dunbar team, however, didnt quite have post-high school success of the 1982-83 team. Your email is never published nor shared. Not having key guys come out, or even try out, that we were expecting, losing players you counted on the year before and expected to come back, having guys in your rotation at the beginning of the season who you lost because of injury it just was an up-and-down year," Jones said. Garrison led the way with 15 points. In the 1959-60 season, Scotton emerged as the No. Ponitz played their butts off, Washington said. Middletown takes No. Dorrian Sands scored 19 points for the Bears (18-4 overall), and Christian Hilton-Bey added 17 points, six rebounds and two blocked shotsSenior Tony Hart finished with a game-high 20 points for Dunbar (17-7). One thing that isnt in doubt is that it was a glorious era for Dunbar basketball. Of those 51, 27 were boys. Currently you have JavaScript disabled. He worked in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools as a science teacher and in 1967 was appointed as the planetarium instructor at the Charlotte Nature Museum (now Discovery Place). Virgos Sailor of the Month.. Dunbar finished off a 54-41 victory to cap a 22-0 season. Tournament Game 2023 UIL Texas Boys State Basketball Dunbar pulled to 18-15 with 3 minutes, 24 seconds left in the period before a Hilton-Bey layup started a 10-2 run to put Carver back in control, 28-17 at halftime. 2 behind the Cardinals, who finished 34-0. Maybe thats why Wiley focused totally on defense against Jordan Sellars, the defending state champs. Im going to weigh my options. The backup team of Harried, Lewis, Woods, 6-foot-3 junior Derrick Lewis (Northeastern), 6-foot-2 Eric Green (James Madison) and 6-foot-3sophomore Reggie McNeil (a member of Dunbars 1985 mythical national championship team) was definitely a top 25 team in the country. Its hard to imagine anyone, however, could have predicted just how dominant the team would be. The Bears defeated the Poets, 53-44, to advance Thursday's Class 2A North Region II championship game. There was no senior superlative for best name, but that unofficially belonged to another senior reserve Franklin Roosevelt Davis. Parker, an assistant last season under Travis Winstead, coached the entire returning Bears roster on the AAU circuit in the summer. He answered to Bo.. Even Scotton didnt get in. As a senior, he averaged 25.3 ppg, four apg while shooting.890 from the free throw line after shooting over 90 percent as a junior. Day 106 Tuesday started slow for Carver, trailing 5-0 early. But Eagles head coach Charlie Szabo tells his team over and over that it wont be easy. Some Dunbar fans point the the comparative scores between Camden as evidence that perhaps Dunbar was better than Calvert Hall. Required fields are marked *. WebDunbar High School, Dayton (OH) Basketball Players - RealGM 32 in the preseason Basketball Weekly rankings, No. We found a way. Lewis backed up Williams for the most part and in many games only sawgarbage minutes. I just try to play my role, said Ross, 6-foot-5, who hit a short jumper as part of Carvers decisive 18-6 fourth quarter run. Six-foot-4 HermanHarried (Syracuse) was a 1984 Parade All-American but a back-up in 1983. As seniors, Garrison and Davis were two of the top three scorers in Rowan County. Its a historic school with a great basketball tradition and to be able to carry that on and be the head coach for the past 12 years, it was an honor being an alumni of the school.. In 1969, he served as a sergeant in a signal brigade in Vietnam. The Dunbar Poets beat the Fairmont Heights Hornets in the 1A boys basketball state championship match at the Xfinity Center in College Park. Sands denied a Dunbar shot and Hilton-Bey buried a 3-pointer, pushing Carvers advantage back out to 42-33 with 6 minutes, 10 seconds remaining in regulation. Florida. Wiley and Davis scored 18 each. Carver - Sands 19, Hilton-Bey 17, Green 8, Colclough 5, Ross 4. Prior to taking over as head coach, he was part four state titles and two Baltimore City titles as an assistant coach. The district championship game was brutal. Garrison worked for the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on the West Coast for 16 years and the Army Corp of Engineers for nine years, He died at 65 in 2006. It was never just about basketball and winning games. There was definitely no lovelost between these schools. The Bears responded with a 14-2 run to close the period. Garrison, who was born in Gaffney, S.C., also entered military service. For him to miss that free throw, honestly, I was surprised. Itwon the LakeClifton Tourney and the Cap City Classic with wins over famed DeMatha Catholic of nearby Hyattsville, Md. Wingate had to overcome his reputation as a partier, Muggsys father did an armedrobbery and died 3 days after the funeral for Lewis, who tragically died from cardiac arrest at 27 years old on July 27, 1993. Rich Township 84 Dunbar 52 Final Box Score Jan 28, 2023 @ 7:42pm Stats Updated Dunbar's stats have been entered for the 84-52 loss vs. Rich Township on 1/28/2023 12:00 PM. On 2/4, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their away conference game against Western Hills (Fort Worth, TX) by a score of 69-47. We started off strong defensively then had major breakdowns at the wrong time. Follow your favorite high school teams and players, Explore and purchase photos of your local teams, See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports, 2023 UIL Texas Boys State Basketball Championships 2023 Boys BB 4A Reg. 6 Dunbar, however, there's nothing more satisfying than thoroughly frustrating an opponent with suffocating defense. "A lot of that is a tribute to what Dunbar did. Later that season, Calvert Hall was upset in the Alhambra Catholic Invitational and finished ranked No. Calvert Hall trailed preseason No. After Dunbar pressured Elida sophomore Dakota Mathias into missing a half-court buzzer heave, its fifth state title was secure. Boys Basketball Bracket Alignment. By the end of 1981 season, the rivalry between Calvert Hall and Dunbar (located in East Baltimore) had grown heated. Thats where preseason positioning, national schedule and what happened in the past plays a big role in national rankings. 1 in the country. Afterthe incident, the parochial schools pulled out of the MSAand formed their own catholic league. High School Basketball SC top boys, girls basketball players named to All-State teams. Guard Darren Lucas-White scored 19 to lead Fairmont Heights, and Yearlarndo Reed II added 11 points and nine rebounds. Despite playing with a six-man rotation for most of the game, Dunbar seldom relented on the defensive end, forcing 24 turnovers and holding Fairmont Heights to 39.2 percent shooting from the floor including just four of 20 during the middle two quarters. 1 team. The flip side is that the Wolverines are recently well below their 63.8 scoring average. 4 Tipp work for every point it got Friday at Trent. Academic Services; Business Services; Human Dunbar was a small school to be playing for a 2A basketball title. WebDunbar High School, Baltimore (MD) Basketball Players - RealGM 1 against one of the best high school schedules weve ever evaluated. 2023 Boys Basketball Bracket Alignment. Learn more about supporting local journalism. 2 Camden late and won, 67-62. Johnson said the school is accepting applications to fill the coaching position left behind by Jones. "They were giving me the pull-up side, and my teammates just put me in position to score.. Had there been overtime, Dunbar would have been hurting. 8 Oakwood to 30 points on Tuesday and made No. For No. And a trip to the state tournament at UD Arena became the expectation. The Poets also captured the King of the Bluegrass Holiday Tournament right before Christmas and won theJohnstown (Pa.) Tourney right after. 5 seed Bard, in its second season in program history, prevailed over No. But their last miss was fateful. After nine years of teaching, Wylie went to work for IBM for 30 years. The 1985 team lost one game, to Pooh Richardson and his Ben Franklin of Philadelphia team, 58-57, at theSonny Hill Tournament one game after beating a Dobbins Tech (Philadelphia) team led by Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble, 73-72. MaxPreps is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Wiley, whose dream was being a pharmacist, was voted Best Looking. Drafton, who was looking forward to a military career, received perhaps the most coveted senior superlative Most Athletic. Robert Henderson, a senior reserve who hoped to become a P.E. "We fought through all that adversity. Koontz had some stellar material to work with in 1959. The Tigers were just too strong. I think our student athletes, their focus is not fully there and they need to be encouraged and pushed a little more. 1 seed in DIAA Boys Basketball Tournament Teams representing Elizabethtown, Tarboro, Belmont, Edenton, Beaufort and Lenoir headed to Greensboro and joined Dunbar and Jordan Sellars for the state tournament. Being a Dunbar grad, he was able to bring that stability and that tradition to the program that only a Dunbar alum and former player could bring, she said. Tim Maloney- Head Coach; Zack Lapaugh Asst. Carver got defensive in the fourth quarter, punching its ticket to a second straight Region I final. Vision 2020 (Strategic Plan) Business with the District; Divisions. WebDunbar High Schools boys basketball team won its fifth state championship Saturday by beating Elida 54-52 at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus. 2 scorer, and Clarence McKee Jr., who averaged 10 points a game. Dunbar also beat a prison team that year. Dixon said its time to get the big pads out at practice this week and work on scoring through contact. The 1959 Dunbar school yearbook is dedicated to Koontz an understanding teacher, a true friend, and the best coach any basketball team ever had., Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), High school girls soccer: Good starts for Rowan squads, High school basketball: Central Cabarrus boys still unbeaten, High school softball: Rowan schools get new season started, High school baseball: Carson, East open with wins. That would come later. The way things are now, it really brought me to this decision, he said. Jones, who was a standout player for the Poets from 1989 to 1992, finished with a 226-72 mark with the teams most recent state crown coming last season. It hurts coming that close on a last-second drive.. Drafton scored 12. The Bears extended the lead to 14 late as they finished with 12 blocks Tuesday. WebDunbar High School Report Card; Our District. Bogues came over from Southern High after the 1981 season. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wingate came over from Northern High. Official Contest Forfeiture Form. On 1/27, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their home conference game against Eastern Hills (Fort Worth, TX) by a score of 52-43. Game Stats Season Stats Wiley and Drafton were named to the all-district team. Dunbars senior leaders were 6-foot-4 Gary Graham (UNLV) and 6-foot-5 All-American David Wingate (Georgetown). COLLEGE PARK For most high school basketball players, success means lighting up scoreboards with gaudy offensive numbers. The next best shot will come at the district tournament on March 5 at Xaviers Cintas Center. Dunbar scored 88.3 ppg andwon by an average margin of 37.1 ppg. After a Hilton-Bey basket, sophomore David Ross blocked a Poet shot, leading to Kalial Colcloughs layup. Last season, Carver Vocational Tech defeated perennial Baltimore City blueblood Dunbar twice. He loves that. Five-foot-7 Darryl Woods (Virginia Union) was a captain and only scored in half the games. Eric Brewer also scored 15 and the Allen twins, Antaune and Antone, combined for 15. Coaching Staff. They played really aggressively, and ultimately they controlled the defensive boards.". We knew it was going to be hard.. Robert Hughes is the all-time leader, but Richard Duease and Freddy Johnson joins Monarchs leader with shot to overtake top spot. College Park,MD-3/9/14- Hornets #2 Darius Holmes celebrates one of his teammate's 3 point shots in the first half. On 2/17, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their neutral non-conference game against Franklin (OH) by a score of 77-32. McKee, president of the student council and voted Most Intellectual and Most All-round by his classmates, aspired to be a doctor. Earlier in the season, Dunbar won the Ft. Worth Basketball Classic, the King Cotton Tournament and the Laker-Poet Tournament. You can unsubscribe from these alerts at anytime. (Derek Toney). PLD, which opened in 1990, Mathias had 16 points for Elida. Similar to the Calvert Hall team the year prior, Wade beefed up the schedule and everyone predicted a stellar season even though the pressure was on. We hung in there together and this is the reward.. At times, we were a little rushed and not as poised as we generally are," Hornets coach Charlie Henry said. On 11/21, the Dunbar varsity basketball team lost their home non-conference game against Varsity Opponent by a score of 51-43. I felt like it was in my hands, said Yates, who raced up court following a missed free throw and long outlet pass and nailed a banker in the final seconds to beat Elida 54-52 and win the boys high school basketball Division II state championship Saturday. Totals: 20 5-9 48. The other two starters were sophomores Wallace Davis, who averaged 11, and Walter Garrison, who averaged 10. Wingate had 31 points against Camden, while Dawson had zero. (Brian Krista, Baltimore Sun Media Group). WASHINGTON (DC News Now) The Bard boys basketball team and the Dunbar girls basketball team both won their respective DCIAA title games on Saturday. In 1966, he coached Romus Jefferies, who set a Rowan County single-season record with 29.6 points per game. I am not retiring from coaching basketball, he said. and other parochial schools in the area were part of the MSA then. Dunbars starting lineup included three of those seniors Joshua Franklin Drafton, the high-flying big man and leading scorer; Robert Norman Wiley, the No. "It's really been the key to helping us win all season., We take a lot of pride in our defense," forward Jamal West Jr. said. That's just what the Poets did Saturday in their 59-48 win over Fairmont Heights in the Class 1A state final at Xfinity Center. Our nonprofit news organization is made possible by, Select the type of alerts youd like to receive, Browsers such as Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, Get text messages from The Banner in urgent situations (message and data rates may apply). Varsity Girls Swimming And Diving. What would have happened in 1981-82 if Dunbar had won that triple overtime game the priorseason? 1 team in the fall of 1981 with Camden (N.J.) at No. Competitive wise it was an unbelievable high school game, Szabo said. We tried to instill certain qualities in the student athletes that they would need once they left high school, he said. It was 18-7 early in the second after a Sands basket. Camden featured the No. WebDunbar High School, Baltimore (MD) Basketball Players - RealGM Ponitz led 36-32 at halftime. Scotton came off the bench to score seven. On 1/24, the Dunbar varsity basketball team lost their away non-conference game against Woodward (Cincinnati, OH) by a score of 59-57. Return to Competition Form (Concussion) LHSAA Medical History Evaluation Form. I just took what they gave me," Phillip said. Already fouled out were power frontliners Deontae Teddy Hawkins (14 points, 12 rebounds) and Gary Akbar (10 points). Watch this highlight video of the Dunbar (Dayton, OH) basketball team in its game Dunbar vs Ponitz Career Tech Game Highlights - Feb. 3, 2023 on Feb 3, 2023. Dunbar - Hart 20, Toney 7, Suite 6, Taylor 6, Duplessis 3, Downing 2. When Lewis went No. The Poets got no closer as Carvers defense flustered them around the basket. In 3 of the first four games of the season,Williams went over 30 points, then versus DeMatha he had 14 as five players Web2023 DIAA Boys Swimming Championship Prelims All Swims. On 12/10, the Dunbar varsity basketball team lost their neutral tournament game against Andress (El Paso, TX) by a score of 71-64. WebOn 2/21, the Dunbar varsity basketball team won their neutral playoff game against Alvarado (TX) by a score of 68-51. Jones is looking forward to his next opportunity, saying he is open to coach at any level, whether it be middle school, high school or the college level. One of Garrisons brothers, Lawson, was the first Black player to play for Salisburys professional minor league baseball teams. The Poets were No. Michael Brown (Syracuse/Clemson), a 6-foot-3 junior who started on the 1982-83 team, transferred over from Cardinal Gibbons after the 1982season. 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