ALL-DISTRICT! | Boys 3A, 2A honors; Tatum’s Bradley takes MVP in 16-3A, Overton’s Still in 22-2A
EDITOR’S NOTE: All-district boys for District 16-4A is coming later; and our all-district girls story will be posted later today.
Tatum High School’s Eagles just won the UIL Class 3A, Division I Boys State Basketball Championship.
Reckon they placed a few of their players on the District 16-3A All-District Team?
Darn skippy, they did.
JaCorie Bradley was named the district’s overall most valuable player; Luke Sigler was named the offensive MVP; Cayden Tatum was named defensive MVP; and coach Brett Carr and his staff were named the coaching staff of the year in a near-sweep of the district’s superlative awards.
West Rusk’s Kameron Brown was named newcomer of the year.
On the first team: Arp’s Landon Smith and AB Martin; Gladewater’s Landen King; Sabine’s Hudson McNatt and Dalton Taylor; Tatum’s Nalayus Boyd, Jordan Chambers and Cooper Whiteus; Troup’s Braxton Barton, Carter Graves, and Caden Graves; and White Oak’s Scotty Breitenberg and Campbell Sutton.
Named second-team all-district: Arp’s Cade Ward, CP Pierce, Demarcus Wade, and Jaxon Schminkey; Sabine’s Myles Bradley and Colt Sparks; Tatum’s Quincy Davis and Carlos Hernandez; Troup’s Tre Anderson and Bryce McElroy; West Rusk’s Marcus Castillo and Kemontrea McGregor; and White Oak’s Andrew Rector and Mac Smith.
Honorable mention all-district: Gladewater’s Brayson Woods and Zekevion Watson; Sabine’s Dekoda Davis and Cason Patterson; Troup’s Michael Burns, Logan Chambers, Keenan Foster and Brett Wells; West Rusk’s Tucker Heathco; and White Oak’s Keenan Jalomo.
Earning academic all-district status: Gladewater’s Landen King, Amarion Minter and Zekevion Watson; Sabine’s Myles Bradley, Shawn Heffner, Cason Patterson, Dalton Taylor and Clark Wright; Troup’s Tre Anderson, Braxton Barton, Michael Burns, Carson Davenport, Logan Chambers, Carter Graves, Bryce McElroy, James Pearce and Brett Wells; West Rusk’s Max Carillo; and White Oak’s Scotty Breitenberg, Keenan Jalomo, Brady Prazak, Andrew Rector, Mac Smith, and Campbell Sutton.
District 22-2A
In District 22-2A, Overton’s boys knocked off Douglass, who was seemingly on top for quite some time, including a 40-plus-game district winning streak – stopped by the Mustangs.
As such, Overton pretty much swept all-district superlative honors.
Overton’s Bryce Still was named the district’s overall most valuable player, and teammate Rylan Holleman was named the offensive MVP. Jayden Edwards was named defensive MVP, and coach Kerry McConnell and coach C.J. Grimmett were named the district’s coaching staff of the year!
Christian Hall and Joey Zalman were both named 22-2A first-team all-district; Brody Brown and Josh Cota were named second-team all-district; and Landon Hill and Ivan Ransom were both named honorable mention.
Maybe most importantly, Brown, Cota, Edwards, Hill, Holleman, Still and Zalman were all named academic all-district.
