Prep basketball teams hope to close strong
By David Shelton
Senior Writer
Hilton Head – It has been a tough winter on the hardwood for the Hilton Head Prep basketball teams as both teams have struggled to play tough competition with young rosters.
Entering the final week of play, the girls’ team was 6-14 overall and 2-5 in region 1-AAA. The team picked up its biggest win of the season on January 31st, beating rival Hilton Head Christian.
Tara Dakolios is in her first season as the coach, having played at the school as Tara McKnight, earlier in the last decade. Her roster this season consists of three seniors, five juniors, a sophomore, a freshman and an eighth-grader.
The bulk of the playing time is earned by the underclassmen as Dakolios builds for the future. The team’s leading scorer is junior Halie Parker, who averages 9.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per game this season.
Junior Maggie Gasser averages 6.1 points and 3.7 rebounds while junior Brooke Churchich averages 5.5 points and 4.2 rebounds per contest.
Junior Gracie Anderson is the top rebounder, pulling down 8.5 boards per game to go with her 5.3 points per game. Junior Abbie Miles averages 4.1 points and 4.2 rebounds per game.
Senior leadership is provided by Sarah Hancock, Amber Erkan and Allie Jaccaro.
Rounding out the roster are sophomore Carlie Van, freshman Taylor Kent, and eighth-grader Madeline McDonald. Kent is averaging 5.2 rebounds off the bench this season.
Bob Sulek, the former girls’ coach at Hilton Head Prep, is coaching the boys’ varsity team this season. He too is putting a young team on the floor in most games. None of the top five scorers are seniors and the roster only has three seniors as well.
The Dolphins have found it rough going this season, winning four of 23 games overall and an 0-6 region record.
Sophomore Shaun Topper is leading the team in scoring this season, averaging 12.9 points per game. Topper also leads the team in rebounding, pulling down 8.1 rebounds per game.
Sophomore John Sheehan is averaging 8.8 points per game this season and leads the team with 24 made three-pointers. Sheehan also dishes out 2.5 assists per game while grabbing 3.0 boards.
Junior Charlie Wilmot averages 8.6 points and 3.2 assists per contest while sophomore Randy Young is scoring 5.1 points while pulling down 5.8 caroms per game.
Junior Logan Clark is averaging 4.4 points and 3.1 assists per game.
The team has seven sophomores and three juniors among the 13 total players.
