Basketball Hits the Boards in December

The OA Boys Basketball team finished up an awesome week beginning last Monday (12/1) with a 52-34 victory over Redwood Adventist followed by our trip to the Pescadero Small Schools Hoop Dreams Tournament. OA won the first two games over San Francisco Christian (55-47) and Pacific Collegiate (39-34) from Santa Cruz, making it four victories in a row. We lost a tough championship game (34-39) to the Bay School from San Francisco and came home with the second-place trophy. Then on Tuesday (12/9) in our home gym we exacted revenge on the Bay School with a 45-23 victory to bring our overall record to 5-2.  As usual, the Twin Towers have led the way with David Treas averaging 18.4 points and 10 rebounds per game and Brandon Davis with 9.6 points and 12 rebounds per game. David also brought home an All-Tournament shirt from Pescadero, and has been our lead scorer in every game. Brandon had a monster game Tuesday with 14 points and 14 rebounds. The steady, good play of Chris Scott, Dylan Goldman, and Aubrey Love has also been a major factor in our success. Chris had 15 points against SF Christian and has averaged 8.5 points per game, 3.2 assists, and 3 steals. Dylan came off an ankle injury to score a career-high 12 points including three 3-pointers versus SF Christian, had a career high 7 assists in the rematch versus Bay school, and is averaging 3.5 assists per game. Aubrey had his first career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds against Pacific Collegiate and is averaging 6 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2 steals per game. Freshman Jeremy Hansen has stepped up to provide strong support, as did Seth Viruet-Krevolin in the rematch with Bay School. I'm proud to be coach of such a fine group of young men.

Our girls basketball team has yet to win a game, but took the last two games right down to the buzzer. Julia Friedman has led the way averaging 5.9 points per game and brought home an All-Tournament shirt from Pescadero. Anissa Laval-kiyemba also provided strong leadership as well as averaging 3.7 points per game. Sarah Heyward, Maddie Murphy, and Kali Geertsen have provided strong support and some fine rebounding.

The boys will host Oakland Military Institute again Friday, December 12th and then the boys and girls will travel to El Sobrante Christian School for games on Monday. Both teams will then head to the Geyserville Small Schools Classic next Thursday (12/18). Kudos to all the boys and girls who are working very hard and represent OA so well, and to Ben Lavender for all his hard work as girls coach and co-athletic director. Thanks to all who have come out to support us and have made our home games fun and exciting community events.

Mitch