A few local players have put together some incredible games this week around the DMV. Magruder’s Nick Griffin and Coolidge’s Maurice Jeffers each put together a stat line that will be hard to pass this year.
Griffin, a junior shooting guard on the #5th ranked Colonels of Magruder High School went off for 40 points, while connecting on 10 3-pointers on Tuesday night against Wheaton. Both numbers tied school records. Magruder keeps very detailed school basketball records, unlike most Montgomery County basketball teams, so this is an incredible accomplishment. Magruder has had some phenomenal shooters in the last couple of decades, notably Mike Seek who holds many Magruder 3-point basket records but Griffin is on pace to shatter them all. Griffin has connected on 67 3-balls this year in only 18 games, averaging almost four per game. In fact he has connected on at least four three pointers in exactly half of his team’s 18 games. Griffin is being recruited by G.W. and a few others.
On Wednesday evening Maurice Jeffers, a 6’8” center out of #15th ranked Coolidge High School who has committed to Delaware but together the best game of his career. The senior registered a triple-double. Something that is virtually unheard of in a 32 minute high school game with no shot clock. Jeffers scored 20 points, grabbed 21 rebounds, and blocked 10 shots versus the defending DCIAA champs, T Roosevelt. It was the second 20-20 game Jeffers has had this season.