CPHS Basketball: Davon Richardson, Marlo Fox, Josh Minney earn All-Conference honors

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The Charles Page High School boys’ basketball team ended the season with a 19-7 record and a lot of unfinished business. After qualifying for the State Tournament for the second time in the past three years, they were left hanging by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the cancellation of all school athletics for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.

The Sandites won the Enid Holiday Classic and their second-consecutive Regional title. They went undefeated at the Memorial Veterans Arena Invitational and were fifth in Frontier Valley Conference standings.

The season was peppered with adversity even before the Coronavirus arrived in Oklahoma. The star-studded team lost two crucial play-makers in Jaeden Hurd and Daren Hawkins, both to ACL injuries. But for every low there was a high. In addition to all their tournament hardware, they also won big games against No. 1 Booker T. Washington, No. 3 Jenks, No. 8 Union, and No. 11 Broken Arrow. They were the only Oklahoma 6A team to beat the top-ranked Hornets.

Three Sandites picked up All-Conference honors Monday, including two first-team stars. Davon Richardson and Marlo Fox cracked the top five in the entire conference with a combined 33.7 points and 11.1 rebounds per game. Josh Minney was named to the conference third-team.

Richardson, a University of Central Oklahoma-committed senior, shot 46.2% in the field and 72% on free throws. He averaged 16.2 points, 8.5 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 2.2 steals, and 1 block per game. He led the team on seven occasions this season and recorded 10 double-doubles with a season-high 28-point performance against Bartlesville. In his career he led the team 29 times with 20 double-doubles, 1331 points, and a career-best 44 points in a sophomore season game against Owasso.

Fox, a junior, shot 50% in the field, 40.7% on threes, and 88.2% at the free throw line. He averaged 17.5 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and 1.4 steals. He led the team on 15 occasions this year, including a career-high 27 points against the HFC Warriors.

Minney was a huge contributor in his senior season, averaging 10.3 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 1.5 steals, and 0.9 blocks. He shot 49.2% in the field and 62.7% on free throws. He led the team in three games with one double-double, and scored a season-high 20 points against Ponca City. In his career he led the team five times with two double-doubles and a career-high 23 points last year against Wichita. He scored 522 points in his career.

Booker T. Washington’s five-star Kansas-commit Bryce Thompson was named the Conference Player of the Year, and Jenks’s Clay Martin was named Coach of the Year for leading the team to a State Tournament berth just two years after consecutive losing seasons.

Player of the Year: Bryce Thompson (Booker T. Washington).
Coach of the Year: Clay Martin (Jenks).

First Team: Davon Richardson (Sand Springs), Marlo Fox (Sand Springs), Trey Phipps (Booker T. Washington), Jalen Breath (Booker T. Washington), Anfernee Nelson (Jenks).

Second Team: Chase Martin (Jenks), Nehemiah Boykins (Union), Seth Chargois (Union), Kyler Mann (Owasso), Xavier Glenn (Bixby).

Third Team: Hunter Hoggatt (Sapulpa), Jaiell Talley (Broken Arrow), Josh Minney (Sand Springs), Xavier Brown (Muskogee), Ike Houston (Jenks).