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Prep Basketball Preview: Summers aiming to compete in loaded region

Tyler Jackson by Tyler Jackson
Monday, December 9, 2024 10:28 pm

Summers County head coach Robert Bowling had a good team led by a standout athlete in Brandan Isaac that competed but fell short of a state tournament berth. But the cupboard isnโ€™t bare, in fact he brings back several experienced and key players.

Heโ€™s hoping his returning group can take that next step.

โ€œWeโ€™ve got Ryan Oliveros, a  three-years starter for us so heโ€™ll be back,โ€ Bowling said. โ€œHe slimmed down a little bit. I think heโ€™s quicker now as a result of that. We played Mount View in a scrimmage on Saturday and I think you end up with 28 points and shot the ball pretty well. We have Robey Brown who was a sophomore last year and started probably Iโ€™ll say 17 or 18 ball games. He played a lot this summer. Really has a good all-around game and probably wants to pass more than he does score. But him doing that makes everybody else better. We have sophomore in Damien Fullen has put a lot of work in this this year and I expect he gives us that third guard on the perimeter and should be pretty solid.โ€

For the last four years Summers has been trapped in a region with Wyoming East and Bluefield, seeing Westside enter the fray the last two years. With another reclassification James Monroe, the 2022 and โ€™23 Class A state champion, is now in the region, keeping the competition alive.

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โ€œWeโ€™ve been stuck down here for a long time and as a small rural school that that plays with only our kids, weโ€™re not picking anybody else up obviously, itโ€™s really hard,โ€ Bowling said. โ€œItโ€™s hard in single-A too. I saw Liberty the other day they were kind of down last year. Theyโ€™re much improved. Bluefieldโ€™s always Bluefield and it seems like they have picked up a couple kids. Westside might be the favorite in terms of they got a bunch of kids back. They have really good size as a whole too. I could go on about everybody but thereโ€™s just no easy way. Youโ€™ve got to not to beat yourself, play hard every night and hope when it counts that some shots go in.โ€

With a plethora of returners in the backcourt, Bowling already sees a defined strength to lean on.

โ€œI think our guard play is our strength,โ€ Bowling said. โ€œThis is probably the best three guards Iโ€™ve ever had at once. Iโ€™m not saying that individually theyโ€™re the best but collectively thereโ€™s years we donโ€™t have a point guard and having three kids that can play it is a luxury that not many people have. Iโ€™m not sure Iโ€™ve ever had it. I might be able to come up with a group from the past, but I think Iโ€™d struggle with that.โ€

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Bowlingโ€™s ultimate goal is to make it to the state tournament but he has several other goals layered in to help his team measure up and improve.

โ€œI think everybodyโ€™s goal is to get to Charleston,โ€ Bowling said. โ€œI mean it might be kind of clichรฉ saying that but you have to have some small term goals as you go through too. I always have a goal to have a winner. I think this team, barring some catastrophic injuries, they are going to win a lot of ball games on our schedule and we hope we can find more wins than losses on it. Again itโ€™s kind of clichรฉ, but you want to get better as the year goes on, but we had a little nerves Saturday because we were playing some kids that havenโ€™t played before and we got some kids that they played before but maybe in a little different role. Thereโ€™s really no easy games on our schedule this year and so at the end of year you hope youโ€™re playing your best basketball and you know, weโ€™ll see what will happen.โ€

 

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