Ball Fever: Looking at the midseason stat leaders in boys hoops

A little different angle this week, folks! The Fever Crew wanted to show some love to the midseason stat leaders in Class 5A/4A big hoops as part of the Week 8 report.

Here’s points, rebounds, and assists leaders, but we won’t forget those blocks, steals, and dirty work — stay tuned…

Mid-season stat leaders!

5A Scoring

• Braxton Bertollete – Fossil Ridge – 26 per game
• Hunter Maldonado – Vista Ridge – 24 per game
• Sam Master – Rock Canyon – 23 per game

4A Scoring

• D’Shawn Schwartz – Sand Creek – 26 per game
• Jalen Sanders – Valor – 23 per game
• CJ Jennings – Sierra – 22 per game

5A Rebounding

• Will Becker – Smoky Hill – 11 per game
• Kam Vincel – Praire View – 11 per game
• Gage Prim – Grandview – 9 per game

4A Rebounding

• Devin Huffman – Battle Mountain – 11 per game
• Trey McBride – Fort Morgan – 10 per game
• Dondre Savage – Sierra – 10 per game

5A Assists

• Calvin Fugett – GW – 6 per game
• Trey Marble – Prairie View – 5 per game
• Iseri Palacio – Fort Collins – 5 per game

4A Assists

• Noah Martinez – Falcon – 6 per game
• Orlando Westbrook – Harrison – 5 per game
• Dalen Jackson – Mesa Ridge – 5 per game

Stats are fun, but we know the wins are what matter! On to the early games in Week 8:

A Look Back

Monday, Jan. 23

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• Perennial CO powers Eaglecrest and Denver East got it on Monday and Matt Mathewes has your shots.
• Solid win from Mountain View over Longmont by 3. Nick Messinger scored 12 in the win and the Mountain Lions outscored the Trojans 18-9 in the final stage!

Tuesday, Jan. 24

• Mead, No. 8 in this week’s poll, grabbed everyone’s attention with a 40 point win over Berthoud.
• Silver Creek is rolling, folks! Now up to No. 5 in our 4A poll they started the week strong with a 24 point home league win over Centaurus.
• Oscar Maldonado with 26 points for Northridge as they open the week with impressive 28-point blow out of Niwot.
• Colby Phifer scored 21 points to help Fossil Ridge hold off Broomfield’s comeback to win 77-74.
• Vista PEAK dropped to No. 9 in our poll this week but “put a hurtin” on Brighton 60-38 and senior Tre Early scored 21.
• There’s that young man again! CJ Jennings 25 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals leads Sierra to 1-point win over Mesa Ridge.
• No. 2 Pueblo West wins 76-42 over Pueblo South! We just can’t get those stats out of the defending champ, but we’ll visit soon.
• 29 points and 7 rebounds from Sam Masten sent a “Continental Message” to Heritage as Rock Canyon rolled 60-37.
• Go down the line for double-digit Grizzly scorers in No. 1 ThunderRidge’s throttling of Castle View 105-46. “You got Seng’d…you got everybody’d”!

Wednesday, Jan. 25

• Big nights from Vista Ridge seniors Hunter Maldonado (29 points) and Noah Beatty (15 points) earned the big win over 4A No. 1 Sand Creek!
• Junior Daijon Smith scored 23 and senior Tristan Legins added 10 in Overland’s league win over Arapahoe.
• Valor, now No. 4 in our 4A poll, didn’t allow Littleton more than 10 points in any quarter winning big!
• Never easy on the road in DPL and George Washington got a bit of a test at Lincoln winning 88-72. Jervay Green score 21 and bit man Tray Pierce had 8 points with 4 blocks!
• That Wolves duo again with Gage Prim scoring 26 and LeChaun Duhart 16 in Grandview’s league win over Mullen.
• D’Evelyn up to No. 3 in 4A and prove again they are here to stay with 82-77 win over Golden in TOP 10 Alert match-up!
• 5A No. 3 Chatfield easily over Columbine 70-43.
• The tale of two halves…and Cherry Creek dominated the second half to storm back over Smoky Hill 71-67 in battle of No. 9 vs No. 10 in 5A!
• Our Fever midweek report ends with young Chaparral Wayne Fish (17) and Ronnie DeGray III (14) paving the way to 23-point win over Heritage.

Midweek Thoughts

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Consensus from the Fever Crew was that Denver East still looks a little disjointed but are ultra talented. We also want to see Eaglecrest turn it loose! Press, run, score, get above the rim…then put it in Ross’ hands late if necessary.

We’ve chatted about this before but a senior floor leader with reliable big man down low is the formula Grandview is riding right now and shows what can be done with a squad following the “system” over at Grandview.

Can’t forget 4A! D’Evelyn is rockin’ y’all, and Pueblo West looks on a mission to repeat! No shame is No. 1 Sand Creek’s loss to Vista Ridge. Hunter Maldonado and Noah Beatty are true leaders who may surprise many down the stretch.

Get to the court and enjoy, hoop fans!