by Andy Hilton, recruit757 Every week during the regular season recruit757 and Buffalo Wild Wings acknowledge the most notable players in the 757 and give you the opportunity to vote for your favorite! This week, we have four nominees for Boys Basketball and four nominees for Girls Basketball. We’ve picked a top performance…
by Jamaar Hawkins, recruit757 Princess Anne defeated Salem, 57-27, Saturday afternoon to secure the Atlantic Conference regular season title and the conference’s top seed heading into this week’s postseason tournament. The teams had split two previous meeting this season, with Salem’s win snapping the Cavaliers 69-game Beach District winning streak. Senior guard Gadiva Hubbard led…
by Jamaar Hawkins, recruit757 With five seconds on the clock and his team trailing by two, Wilson coach Roger Smith called a timeout. The Lady Presidents were facing a Kings Fork team that began the season 20-0, before falling in consecutive games to Lake Taylor and Wilson in its final regular contest. Kings Fork had…
by Jamaar Hawkins, recruit757 For the second consecutive season, the Princess Anne Lady Cavaliers will play in an Atlantic Conference playoff game to determine the regular season number 1 seed, squaring off against Salem in a 2p.m. matchup at Kellam High School. The Cavaliers were defeated in last season’s tiebreaker game to Maury, before losing…
by Jamaar Hawkins, recruit757 In Lakeland girls’ victory over Booker T Washington Thursday night, sophomore guard Makayla Dickens displayed the versatility that has carried the Cavaliers into one of their best seasons in recent history, scoring 19 points to go along with 10 rebounds, 6 steals and 3 assists as Lakeland cruised to a 64-32…
by Liz Kilmer, WAVY-TV 10 (a special contribution to recruit757) NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Amber Brown, the Norfolk State University basketball player who was placed in a medically-induced coma, is now out of the hospital and sharing her story of recovery. Only 10 On Your Side was there as Brown made her first trip back…
by Brandon Mitchell, recruit757 In terms of playoff seeding this game meant nothing to the Hampton Crabbers. Tonight was senior night at Hampton High School and the Crabbers were trying to send their seniors away winning their final game of the regular season. Their opponent was a team in Menchville that had already taken a…
by Brandon Mitchell, recruit757 One paper this looked like an easy win for the Phantoms. At the same time, on any given day, any team can be beaten. Phoebus left the Peninsula and traveled across the water to Norfolk to take on the Mighty Bookers of Washington. If we judged this game by the first…
by Tamara Brown, recruit757 After falling to Norcom the previous night in the VA Preps Classic, Cape Henry traveled to Hampton Roads Academy to face the Navigators. Coming into the game, HRA was on a 10 game winning streak, while Cape Henry was seeking to bounce back after losses to Norfolk Collegiate, Walsingham and Norcom.…
by Andy Hilton, recruit757 We had a strong field of nominees again for the first Buffalo Wild Wings player of the week award. The fans really supported their favorites, and there were some great options in the voting. On the boys side, the winner of this week’s award is Kyonze Chavis of Norfolk Collegiate. The senior…