Cobb Co. Region Tournament Week Pt. 1
The 2017-2018 season is slowly coming to an end. With the regular season in the books, all games will be elimination games from now on. Cobb County has 17 public schools across the board and all are split up into six different region according to the GHSA. In this post we will take a look at Pebblebrook’s region, Region 2 class 7A features 3 Cobb County public schools: Pebblebrook, Wheeler, and Campbell, and South Cobb’s region, which is Region 6 class 6A and features 5 Cobb County public schools: South Cobb, Sprayberry, Allatoona, Osborne, and Harrison.
Region 2 Class 7A Tournament – Feb. 6th, 9-10th at East Coweta High School and Wheeler High School
Final Standings: 1. Pebblebrook, 2. Wheeler, 3. Campbell, 4. Westlake, 5. East Coweta, 6. Newnan
The Region 2 class 7A tournament will be played at two locations this week. East Coweta High School will host the first day of the region tournament for the boys bracket on Tuesday Feb. 6th. Campbell will face Newnan at 6pm to start things off. Campbell swept the Newnan Cougars in their season series this year. Following thier game the host school East Coweta will try and hold off a scrappy Westlake team led by 2019 guard Chase Hunter. The winner between Campbell and Newnan will face Wheeler Friday night at 7:30pm. The winner between Westlake and East Coweta will face Pebblebrook Friday night at 6pm. Pebblebrook and Wheeler have a strong possiblity to meet for a third time and for the region title. Pebblebrook is currently the defending champ. Wheeler has not defeated Pebblebrook since the 2015 class 7A state championship, they are 0-5 since then.
POY – 18′ C EJ Montgomery (Wheeler)
1st Team:
19′ PG Terrell Burden (Campbell)
18′ G DJ Murray (Pebblebrook)
18′ G Grant Howard (Pebblebrook)
19′ G Chase Hunter (Westlake)
18′ WG Mervin James (Pebblebrook)
2nd Team:
19′ G Fermandez Jones (East Coweta)
19′ WG Donovan Grant (Campbell)
19′ F Jay Watson (Newnan)
18′ F Brandon Favors (Westlake)
18′ F Austin Johnson (Wheeler)
Region 6 Class 6A Tournament – Feb. 5th, 7th, 9-10th at River Ridge High School
The Region 6 class 6A tournament will be played and hosted at River Ridge High School. First day of tournament play will be tomorrow Monday Feb. 5th. There will be three games to start off the tournament for the boys side. Harrion and Sequoyah will face off against one another at 4:30pm. These two squads split the season series, where Harrison took one of those games in overtime. Sprayberry will then face the host school River Ridge at 6:00pm. The Yellow Jackets swept the season series between River Ridge this season. Dalton and Osborne will end the first day following the Sprayberry/River Ridge game at 7:30pm. Dalton defeated Osbonre only by 6 earlier in the season. The winners between Dalton and Osborne and River Ridge and Sprayberry will face off on Wednesday night at 8:30pm and the winner of that will face the #1 seed Creekview on Friday at 8:30pm. The winner between Harrison and Sequoyah will face Allatoona at 5:30pm on Wednesday night and the winner of that game will face the #2 seed South Cobb on Friday night at 5:30pm.
POY – 18′ G KJ Jenkins (Creekview)
1st Team:
18′ PG Nasir Love-Porter (Dalton)
19′ G Jaiden Diamond (South Cobb)
20′ SG Jackson Greco (Sequoyah)
18′ WG Khadim Samb (Sprayberry)
18′ WG Tobi Adeyeye (Allatoona)
2nd Team:
19′ G Demetrius Bowen (South Cobb)
18′ G Micah McCuen (Sprayberry)
18′ Jack Brunswick (Harrison)
19′ WG Jeremiah Sanabria (Allatoona)
18′ F Michael Mclendon (South Cobb)