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2017-18 Suffolk County Basketball Championship Rundown

A running list of champions during February Madness in Suffolk County:

BOYS  BASKETBALL

CLASS AA: Hills East beat Deer Park

CLASS A: Amityville beat Westhampton

CLASS B: Center Moriches beat Babylon

CLASS C: Greenport beat Stony Brook

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Class AA: Commack beat Hills East

CLASS A: Hauppauge beat Mt. Sinai

CLASS B: Mattituck beat Babylon

CLASS C: McGann-Mercy beat Stony Brook

Suffolk to the Pros: Myles Jones

VICE Sports featured a story about him with the headline, “Myles Jones is the Future of Lacrosse.”

Jones wrote a story for The Players Tribune titled, “The Face of the Game.”

It’s clear that Myles Jones is on another level as an ambassador of his sport.

The first overall pick in the 2016 Major League Lacrosse Draft and Walt Whitman High School alum is truly one of the faces of lacrosse. From the U.S. Team, which he should be playing for at the World Championships this summer, to winning a National Championship at Duke, to his dominant play in the MLL, Jones is a star.

At Duke, he anchored the midfield for four years and put up more than 60 points in three of his four seasons with the Blue Devils. He also won the Lt. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award and was a Tewaaraton Finalist in 2015 and 2016.

In a four-year varsity career at Whitman, Jones recorded 272 points. He as an All-American in lacrosse, All-Long Island and 1,000-point scorer in basketball and All-County as a quarterback on the football team. He is one of the best pure three-sport athletes Suffolk County and Long Island has ever seen and he hasn’t even reached his prime in lacrosse yet.

Section XI Athletes of the Week: Ahkee Anderson & Samantha Schultz

Each week Section XI will announce a male and female athlete of the week. Nominees are submitted by school district athletic directors.

The athletes of the week this week are:

Female Athlete of the Week: Samantha Schultz, Kings Park

Kings Park has a 19-2 overall record as of February 17, and Sam Schultz has a lot to do with that. During one stretch of the season, she was averaging 27.6 points and 13 rebounds per game and those numbers held up pretty much the entire season. She is one of the top players on Long Island and should be a dominant force as the playoffs progress.

Male Athlete of the Week: Ahkee Anderson, Greenport

For the second year running, Ahkee Anderson is one of the top boys basketball players in Suffolk County.   He ranks in the top 10 in the county in scoring with a points per game average of 22.5.  In a first round playoff victory for the Porters, Anderson had 17 points and nine assists.

Previous Section XI Athletes of the Week

  • Jared Trefney, Hills East / Nicole Leslie, Huntington
  • Raf Lievano, Ward Melville / Ty Zhea Hawkins, Brentwood
  • Sean Braithwaite, Center Moriches / Beth Felix, Stony Brook
  • Josh Serrano, Amitville / Evelyn Walker, Port Jefferson