Basketball recruits and others
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:54 pm
I thought I might update those who are interested in the early progress of some of our basketball recruits.
Travis Derochowski: With four games under their belt his Western Mennonite School team is 4-0 on the season. He is now listed at 6-10. He scored 14, 16 , 22, and 23 in the first four games which is pretty amazing considering Western Mennonite has won the games by an average 30 points and Travis's has seen limited action. Mennonite also has a very talented 6-8 junior who transfer in after playing on the top ranked 4A team the last couple years. He is averaging about 15 points. Mennonite is a private 2a school (size wise about the size of a larger Montana B school) Travis is also averaging about 10 rbs and a few blocks.
Cory Davis's West Salem team is a 4A (highest Oregon Classification) is 3-1 after losing their first Game of the season. Davis did not play well in that game but is averaging about 20 points a game. He is playing about 50 / 50 between shooting Guard and Point Guard this year after playing mostly point his first 3 years. In preseason polls he was picked either first team or second team all state. When you look at the the other players on the all state team you are looking at a lot of pac-10 players and future ACC players.
Anthony Jones: Anthoney Jones started the season injured and did not play until the fourth game in the season. I think the injury was a badly pulled hamstrig. Jones I have been told , will be the most athletic 6-7, the Bobcats have had on campus in a very long time. He is also a Plumber type of physical players (with out the bulk though). I have not seen any stats since mid November, but at that time he was still tring to get back into swing of thing and was adveraging about 8 points a game in limited playing time.
A few players of Bobcat interest.
PJ Owsley: PJ started the season coming off the bench, but by the third game of the season was starting at a forward spot. He is the third leading scorer at SLCC with 11.5 PPG (the leading scorer is at 12.3 ppg ) and 2nd in rebounding at about 8 rpg (again the top is about 9 rbs). SLCC is currently undefeated, and is a little bit of a surprise this year. They were ranked last year in the top 20, much of the season but was expected to be down this year I think they may be close to being ranked again. I believe PJ 's recruiting stock is rising very quickly.
Durham was very interested in 6-8 Tommy Craddock of the Washington, as a high school senior last year, but he did not have the grades to go D-1. He is currently leading North Idaho Community College In scoring, and rebounding. He will be highly recruited but will have to spend 2 years at a JC.
There are also a couple small forwards we were real close to signing before changing our recruiting priorities. One has started a couple games for South Idaho CC (but is struggling with a high ankle sprain) the other is Starting for Dixie Community College (second in scoring and rebounding)
Travis Derochowski: With four games under their belt his Western Mennonite School team is 4-0 on the season. He is now listed at 6-10. He scored 14, 16 , 22, and 23 in the first four games which is pretty amazing considering Western Mennonite has won the games by an average 30 points and Travis's has seen limited action. Mennonite also has a very talented 6-8 junior who transfer in after playing on the top ranked 4A team the last couple years. He is averaging about 15 points. Mennonite is a private 2a school (size wise about the size of a larger Montana B school) Travis is also averaging about 10 rbs and a few blocks.
Cory Davis's West Salem team is a 4A (highest Oregon Classification) is 3-1 after losing their first Game of the season. Davis did not play well in that game but is averaging about 20 points a game. He is playing about 50 / 50 between shooting Guard and Point Guard this year after playing mostly point his first 3 years. In preseason polls he was picked either first team or second team all state. When you look at the the other players on the all state team you are looking at a lot of pac-10 players and future ACC players.
Anthony Jones: Anthoney Jones started the season injured and did not play until the fourth game in the season. I think the injury was a badly pulled hamstrig. Jones I have been told , will be the most athletic 6-7, the Bobcats have had on campus in a very long time. He is also a Plumber type of physical players (with out the bulk though). I have not seen any stats since mid November, but at that time he was still tring to get back into swing of thing and was adveraging about 8 points a game in limited playing time.
A few players of Bobcat interest.
PJ Owsley: PJ started the season coming off the bench, but by the third game of the season was starting at a forward spot. He is the third leading scorer at SLCC with 11.5 PPG (the leading scorer is at 12.3 ppg ) and 2nd in rebounding at about 8 rpg (again the top is about 9 rbs). SLCC is currently undefeated, and is a little bit of a surprise this year. They were ranked last year in the top 20, much of the season but was expected to be down this year I think they may be close to being ranked again. I believe PJ 's recruiting stock is rising very quickly.
Durham was very interested in 6-8 Tommy Craddock of the Washington, as a high school senior last year, but he did not have the grades to go D-1. He is currently leading North Idaho Community College In scoring, and rebounding. He will be highly recruited but will have to spend 2 years at a JC.
There are also a couple small forwards we were real close to signing before changing our recruiting priorities. One has started a couple games for South Idaho CC (but is struggling with a high ankle sprain) the other is Starting for Dixie Community College (second in scoring and rebounding)
Do you know this kid is he going to the Cats or the Griz or out of state