Cavaliers End Season In Second Round Of SCISA AAA Playoffs

Neill Kirkpatrick • March 14, 2026

The Cav’s had three players named All Region in Thomas Hester, Tradd Law, and Aiden McCoy. Hester and Law were chosen to play for the South squad in North/South All Star game.


By Neill Kirkpatrick

Special to the HSSR

Moncks Corner – The 2025/26 was a special one for the St. John’s Christian Cavaliers boys basketball team as they finished the year at 20-10 which was their first 20 win season since 2013 and they received a bye in the first round of the SCISA AAA state basketball tournament.

 

Head coach Bob Winters about the season, “We thought we would have a pretty good ball club this year and we did. It didn’t turn out the way we planned but it was a good season.”

 

“Our six seniors played almost every minute this year and it is going to be hard to replace them.

It will be hard to replace them but we had a very good JV team so we expect to reload not rebuild next year. We had three players that we could have brought up but we wanted them to get game experience.”

 

The Cav’s had three players named All Region in Thomas Hester, Tradd Law, and Aiden McCoy. Hester and Law were chosen to play for the South squad in North/South All Star game.

 

Hester had a career for the ages. He leaves SJCA having scored over 2000 points, over 500 rebounds, over 180 assists and over 230 steals. This season he led the team in scoring at 22.8 points per game and steals at 3.6 per game. He also averaged 7.6 rebounds and 2.9 assists a night.

 

Law scored over 1000 career points for his career. He averaged 17.4 points per game this season which was second on the team. He shot 46% from three and tied with Hester for the most three’s on the team with 48.

 

McCoy was the teams third leading scorer at 8.8 points per game. He also grabbed six boards a game.

 

Isiah Antley led the team in rebounding and blocks per game at 9.3 and 2 respectively while Jacob Glover led the team in assists at 2.9 per game and  Dor Reichley came off the bench as the team’s defensive “stopper”.

 

The Lady Cavaliers have a coach and two players in the girls North/South AAA All Star game: head coach Rick Smith and seniors Kylie Finley and Chandler Cumbie. Finley gave the Cav’s basketball programs their third 1000 point scorer as she finished her career with over 1400 points and over 650 rebounds. Both players were also named to the All-Region teams.


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