Blackville-Hilda Hawk Invitational: Day One Top Five

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Blackville-Hilda area of South Carolina may be a small town. The competition that takes place at its high school gym was anything but small recently.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A number of girls and boys converged on the home of the 1A Hawks for this year's Hawk Invitational. Unlike the girls portion of the tournament, the boys featured a more conventional bracket format with eight teams taking part.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We at Prep Hoops were on hand for the proceedings the first day of the tournament. There were also a number of noteworthy performances put forth by those that were on hand. Without further adieu, we recognize a few of those showings. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":["not_in_db"],"_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":2307744,"_player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"field_62cca28ffa4e7","player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"Donnell Goodwin","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"field_62aba4c9ecf2f","player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"2025","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"field_62aba4ddecf30","player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"5'10u0022","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"field_62aba4e8ecf31","player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"77246","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"field_62aba4f0ecf32","player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"Swansea","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"field_62aba4fdecf33","player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"field_62d20e723441a","player_evaluations_0_player_details":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details":"field_62aba4afecf2e","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"u003cp style=u0022font-weight: 400u0022u003eCollectively, the Tigers had a rough start to this year's Blackville-Hilda Hawk Invitational. Swansea was defeated in its first contest of this year's event by a final of 80-47 at the hands of 2A Barnwell, but Goodwin did everything he could to provide a spark to Swansea's offense. He put 27 points on the board which actually led all scorers for the game despite the losing Tigers effort. Goodwin will display an ability to put a team on his back – even after Barnwell jumped out to a huge lead, he consistently put points on the board to give his team a semblance of a chance. 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