Boy's Basketball | 1/20/2025 5:58:00 PM
Columbia, SC – The Oceanside Collegiate Academy boys' basketball team took part in a Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Showdown against Greer High on Monday, posting a 60-44 victory over the Yellow Jackets.
It was the Landsharks' (15-1) 11
th consecutive victory on the year. Oceanside is currently ranked No. 1 in the state in Class AAA and No. 3 overall.
As has been the case in recent games, OCA jumped out to an early lead behind a pair of first quarter three-point baskets. Junior guard
Abe Davinroy was the first to strike from the perimeter and senior
Tyrek Dawson followed as OCA built a 13-7 lead.
Junior forward
Jake Thomas, who had five points in the first quarter, continued with five more in the second as the Landsharks pushed their advantage to 28-14 by halftime.
The lead continued to grow in the third quarter as senior
Carson Jones got hot, drilling a trio of three-pointers to go with another from Davinroy as OCA pushed its advantage to 48-28.
Greer tried to make a run in the final quarter, but OCA got five more points from Thomas, who finished with a game-high 17, to hold on for the victory.
Junior guard Mike Williams led Greer (11-7) with 15 points in the loss, which snapped a four-game win-streak for the Yellow Jackets.
The Landsharks entered Monday's game off a dominant performance in Region 6-AAA on Friday when they posted a 52-19 road victory over Orangeburg-Wilkinson. Dawson matched the Bears' (14-5, 3-1) total scoring output in that game, scoring 19 points with a trio of three-pointers. Senior
Gabriel Riesgo-Rivera chipped in with 10 points in the game.
The Oceanside defense was dominant in the performance, holding OW to just one made field goal and four total points in the second half.
In the other games on Friday, the OCA junior varsity boys fell to Orangeburg-Wilkinson 35-32 and the O-W girls downed the Landsharks 36-31, dropping OCA to 13-5 on the season.
All three Oceanside teams were scheduled to host Hanahan in region play on Tuesday night, but those games have been postponed due to the winter weather expected to roll through the area Monday night into Tuesday. Weather permitting, the Landsharks will be back in action on Friday when they host North Charleston.
About Oceanside Collegiate Academy: Oceanside Collegiate Academy (OCA), located in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., serves high school students in a safe, small and family-centered setting. Our students seek the opportunity and challenge of rigorous curriculum, high academic standards and elite athletics while earning up to two years of college credit. OCA serves students in grades 9-12 using an honors curriculum in 9th and 10 grades with a dual enrollment curriculum in 11th and 12th grades
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