From Top Clockwise: Bryce Hamilton, Chris Austin, Darius Henderson, Gabe Snow, Dez Washington, Jake Althouse By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor With the playoffs finally over for all Pasadena-area teams, the CIF-Southern Section’s All-CIF first team has been released. The Pasadena area boasts six players that received the honor. There are also some players, who’s absence […]
From Top Clockwise: Bryce Hamilton, Chris Austin, Darius Henderson, Gabe Snow, Dez Washington, Jake Althouse
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor
With the playoffs finally over for all Pasadena-area teams, the CIF-Southern Section’s All-CIF first team has been released.
The Pasadena area boasts six players that received the honor.
There are also some players, who’s absence from the team are pretty mind boggling as well.
With a CIF Division 1-A finals appearance and nearly 23 points and 11 rebounds per game, it was no surprise that Pasadena’s Bryce Hamilton was among the first team members.
But the omission of Pasadena point guard Darius Brown II is pretty befuddling.
DBII was the Bulldogs point guard, who helped lead PHS to not only the CIF-SS Division 1-A finals, but also the CIF State Division 2 title game.
Brown averaged nearly 20 points and 7 assists per game in the postseason, and it was his being the floor general that makes PHS go.
Chris Austin was named to the CIF Division 1-AA team after the Maranatha junior led the Minutemen offensively all season, and played his best basketball late in the playoffs.
Austin was averaging 16 points and 6 rebounds per game and he helped the Minutemen, along with Terrance Lang and Sean Espinosa to the CIF-SS Division 1-AA title game.
Darius Henderson earned CIF-SS Division 2-A honors after helping lead La Salle to a pair of playoff victories, most notably, a 35-33, overtime win against high-flying Muir in the second round.
Flintridge Prep’s Jake Althouse and Blair’s Gabe Snow and Dez Washington earned three of the nine CIF-SS Division 4-AA spots.
Althouse was good for 20 points and 10 rebounds per game, and he and fellow senior Kendall Kikkawa led the Rebels to a solid playoff run.
Washington was incredible all season, but never more so than in the playoffs.
The Vikings junior scored over 130 points in the playoffs, and it was his aggression and talent that helped the Vikings to the Division 4-AA title game, and then to a first-round state victory.
Gabe Snow is one of those guys that might not fill a stat sheet, but he does a little of everything to make coach Alon Margalit’s Vikings go.
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