Granger was joined on the Class 5 first team by De Smet’s Nolan Berry, Vianney’s Tony Cochran and Marquette’s Ryan Rosburg. McRoberts and three other area players.
The Golden Griffins kept their dream season going, handing visiting De Smet a 69-60 defeat to clinch a share of their first Metro Catholic Conference championship.
Two of the top boys' basketball teams in the St. Louis area, Hazelwood Central High School and DeSmet jesuit High School, met at DeSmet in Creve Coeur, Mo. Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012.
The Spartans host Hazelwood Central on Tuesday, play at Vianney in a Metro Catholic Conference showdown on Friday and then travel to the East Coast to play John Carroll in Bel Air, Md., on Sunday afternoon.
The Parkway South student section had aimed its vitriol at the De Smet junior duo of Nolan Berry and Jimmy Barton for much of their Ameritime Classic semifinal boys basketball game Wednesday night.
The Parkway South student section had aimed its vitriol at the De Smet junior duo of Nolan Berry and Jimmy Barton for much of their Ameritime Classic semifinal boys basketball game Wednesday night.
Rayshawn Simmons scored a career-high 32 points and had seven assists, and Brennan Coltrane added 13 points as the third-seeded Statesmen (8-1) defeated the fourth-seeded Spartans (8-4) in the third-place game.
The eighth-seeded Cadets knocked No. 1 seed McCluer out of the Meramec Holiday Festival High School Basketball Tournament in the quarterfinals on Wednesday and then defeated Metro Catholic Conference rival and No. 4 seed De Smet 61-50 in the semifinals on Thursday night at St. Louis Community College at Meramec.
The Vianney basketball team was feeling pretty good after winning its own Jerry Boeckman Memorial Invitational for the first time since 2003 on Friday night.
Nolan Berry scored 11 of his game-high 25 points in the first quarter to help the Spartans get out to an early lead and cruise to a victory in the first game of the Whitfield Round Robin.
The Butler University basketball program has gained quite a bit of attention with back-to-back trips to the national championship game the past two seasons. On Sunday, DeSmet junior forward Nolan Berry decided he wanted to be a part of that program and made a verbal commitment.