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SOUTHWEST MEN'S BASKETBALL SIGNS FIVE
Southwest men’s basketball coach Verties Sails, Jr. has announced the
signing of five student-athletes to National Letters of Intent. The
group includes Westwood High School’s Antonio Young and Nathan Walton,
Hamilton High’s Donald Boone, Christopher Evans of Paul Lawrence Dunbar
High School in Ft. Worth, Texas, and Greg Grimes of Louisville Ballard
High School and Laurinburg Institute.
Young, a 6’0” guard, averaged 18.0 points, two rebounds, and three
assists per game as a senior under Westwood coach Harold Johnson. Young
was named All-District 16AA, honorable mention All-State, and to The
Commercial Appeal’s Best of the Preps All-Metro Team. He scored a
career-high 33 points three times- against Fairley, Carver, and
Kingsbury.
Walton, a 6’4” guard, was a teammate of Young at Westwood and averaged
12.7 points, six rebounds, and seven assists per game. He scored a
career-high 32 points against Trezevant. Walton was named to the 2005
Memphis All-Star Team.
Boone, a 6’3” guard, played for former Saluqi player Keelon Lawson at
Hamilton High. Boone averaged 15.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, and four
assists per game, leading the Wildcats to a 25-10 record, the District
16AAA tournament runner-up and the semifinals of the Region 8AAA
tournament. Boone was selected to The Commercial Appeal’s Best of the
Preps All-Metro Team, All-District 16AAA, and was Most Valuable Player
of the Martin Luther King Tournament.
Evans, a 6’7” post player from Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School in Fort
Worth, Texas. Evans averaged 22 points and 14.5 rebounds as a senior and
was named to the all-district and all-state teams. As a sophomore, he
played on Dunbar’s 2003 State Championship team. Evans was coached by
the legendary Robert Hughes, who will retire this season after winning
1,333 games in his career – a United States high school record.
The 6'7" Grimes, who attended prep school
for one year at Laurinburg (NC) Institute, played his high school
basketball at Ballard High School in Louisville, Kentucky. Grimes
averaged 15.0 points, eight rebounds, six assists, and five blocks his
senior season and was named to the Louisville All-Metro Team. In 2004,
he led Ballard to a 27-8 record, the region championship, and state
runner-up.
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