Monday Night Heroes
Monday is not an ordinary playoff night in Tennessee, but Mother Nature decided to push many playoff regional quarterfinals to her favored Monday evening. Scan the top scorers in season-ending or season-extending matchups across our beautiful state.
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1. Steph Laird (Murfreesboro Central Magnet) — 28 points
2. Willie Wilson (East Nashville) — 24 points
Freshman Willie Wilson, yes freshman, lead the victorious East Nashville Eagles over a senior-laden White House Blue Devil team. Wilson plays plenty and teammates frequently market him as the future of the winning program. Wilson is one of two young core players seeing heavy minutes in 2018-2019 under Head Coach Jim Fey.
3. Taras Carter (East Nashville) — 22 points
T4. Evan Harris (Tellico Plains) — 21 points
T4. Dale Rinehart (Tellico Plains) — 21 points
6. Tre Yates (Fayette Ware) — 17 points
Tre Yates helped eliminate Raleigh-Egypt with these 17 points and also five rebounds.
7. Jaylon Taylor (Fayette Ware) — 16 points
Jaylon Taylor and his Wildcats pulled off the biggest upset of the Class AA playoffs, defeating the wonderful Raleigh-Egypt Pharaohs, 70-50. Taylor runs with Memphis Bulls AAU. He also amassed 11 assists tonight.
T8. Jeb Hurst (Grainger) — 15 points
In his final high school game, Jeb Hurst led his Grizzles with 15 points. Hurst is also a middle infielder for the Grainger baseball team.
T8. Will Carver (Grainger) — (Murfreesboro Central Magnet) — 15 points
10. Piper Carter (Tellico Plains) — 13 points
Other Scorers:
Isaiah Jones (East Nashville) 9 points, 12 rebounds.
Caleb Grimes (East Nashville) 11 points.
Michael Dowlin (East Nashville) 11 points and 11 rebounds.
Jesse Lambert (Tellico Plains) — 12 points
Luke Jones (Grainger) — 12 points
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