Cerritos College sophomore forward
Marcellus
Jackson (Independence HS) was
voted the South Coast Conference South Division
Player of the Year in men's basketball, while
first-year head coach
Russ May
was named the Coach of the Year. The Falcons, who
won the division and will open the Southern
California Regional Playoffs on Friday at Mt. San
Antonio College, also had four players earn 1st Team
honors.
May, who was named the head coach not long before
the start of the season, has led the Falcons to an
18-10 record and a #12 seeding in the playoffs. A
former Cerritos player and assistant coach, May was
unable to do any recruiting and has worked with the
players that remained with the team when the school
year began. Jackson finished second on the team in
divisional scoring with a 12.6 average, while he led
the squad with a 9.7 average. On the year, he
averages 10.9 points and 8.1 rebounds a game after
finishing second in the Player of the Year voting
his freshman season.
Also named 1st Team were sophomore guards
Ken Brown
(Soldan, MO HS/Southwest Tennessee CC),
Jeremy Pope (Mayfair HS) and
Wayne Chapman (Bellflower HS),
as well as freshman forward
Willie
Edwards (Moreno Valley HS).
Brown leads the team in scoring (14.7) and assists
(4.2), while he pulls down 3.6 rebounds a game,
while Pope is the third player on the team to
average in double-figures at 12.7, along with a 2.6
assist and 2.3 rebounding average. In Chapman, the
team receives 8.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.2
assists a game, while Edwards is scoring 9.1 points
a game and pulls down 4.9 rebounds per contest.
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