Kountze fans

[Guest jhamilton]

I use to follow teams when they went to state in three-a. What are those kids doing are where are the playing now? Kids like Fred, Trey Peters, Hancock sp brohters and others. Anyone know? I know Hall was a fish on that team but any idea about these? Thanks

[True Blue]

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I use to follow teams when they went to state in three-a. What are those kids doing are where are the playing now? Kids like Fred, Trey Peters, Hancock sp brohters and others. Anyone know? I know Hall was a fish on that team but any idea about these? Thanks
[/quote] I saw the Peters kid working at OCB in Lumberton driving a forklift .

[TopDawG52]

All Hancocks went to NWST. Tramain coaches at kountze now. Josh is coaching in Louisiana. Keithan graduated last year.
Hall played for Angelina JC and Now Lamar.

[whsalum]

If Trey would have wanted to continue his career he could have played in a lot of places.One of the best pure shooters I've ever seen.

[Guest jhamilton]

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If Trey would have wanted to continue his career he could have played in a lot of places.One of the best pure shooters I've ever seen.
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I saw him play at Jacksonville one game when he was up there and was good. He was a heck of a player and could have played at Lamar right? Glad he is doing well bc very nice kid or man.

[whsalum]

I don't think he played but 1 season in college.I heard he just decided he had played enough,not sure if thats true or not but I do know he could flat out shoot the long ball.He didn't get a lot of recognition early in high school because he bounced back and forth between a couple of campuses.

[FanintheStands]

OK, old timer Kountze fans.....  What about Tony Darden (class of '82..... yes, 1982).  He was a small (5'5" or so) point guard who was the quickest guy I've ever seen on the court.  He could steal the ball from the best of point guards (including yours truly) and had a 25 foot jumper that was deadly (this was before the 3 point line was around).  In man-to-man, Tony would drive you to the sideline, and when you reversed your direction, he'd come around from behind and get the ball away from you before you even knew what happened.  I thought there was no way that would work on me, until it was too late.

In the YMBL tournament against French, Kountze stuck Darden in the very edge of the corner and he made 4 of his 1st 5 shots (24 footers probably)!  French ended up sticking a 6'7" center to cover him, which meant he faked a jumper and drove for a short shot or pass off.  They nearly beat French that year.... and would have if the 3 point shot had been around

[AggiesAreWe]

The best "short" player for Kountze has to be Esker Boykin. He was the "Spudd Webb" before Spudd came along. The '5"6 dunk artist with the smooth jumper. Esker was a fine player.

[FanintheStands]

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The best "short" player for Kountze has to be Esker Boykin. He was the "Spudd Webb" before Spudd came along. The '5"6 dunk artist with the smooth jumper. Esker was a fine player.
[/quote]What year?  Was he around '78?

[AggiesAreWe]

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[quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=64022.msg734272#msg734272 date=1261512740]
The best "short" player for Kountze has to be Esker Boykin. He was the "Spudd Webb" before Spudd came along. The '5"6 dunk artist with the smooth jumper. Esker was a fine player.
[/quote]What year?  Was he around '78?
[/quote]

1977. He and William Coffey took Kountze to the title game that year but lost to Morton 63-60.

[KHSAlum400]

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[quote author=FanintheStands link=topic=64022.msg734284#msg734284 date=1261515779]
[quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=64022.msg734272#msg734272 date=1261512740]
The best "short" player for Kountze has to be Esker Boykin. He was the "Spudd Webb" before Spudd came along. The '5"6 dunk artist with the smooth jumper. Esker was a fine player.
[/quote]What year?  Was he around '78?
[/quote]

1977. He and [b]William[/b] Coffey took Kountze to the title game that year but lost to Morton 63-60.
[/quote]

Russell Coffey....

[FanintheStands]

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="734309" timestamp="1261524219"]
[quote author=FanintheStands link=topic=64022.msg734284#msg734284 date=1261515779]
[quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=64022.msg734272#msg734272 date=1261512740]
The best "short" player for Kountze has to be Esker Boykin. He was the "Spudd Webb" before Spudd came along. The '5"6 dunk artist with the smooth jumper. Esker was a fine player.
[/quote]What year?  Was he around '78?
[/quote]

1977. He and Russell Coffey took Kountze to the title game that year but lost to Morton 63-60.
[/quote]I remember him.  He lit up Buna for 60 points in Buna.  Our guard tried covering him but he was too slow.  So we stuck our center on him (Lee Renfro), who was much quicker than our guard, and Esker simply pulled up at 25 feet and hit jumpers for the rest of the 3rd and 4th quarters.  It was the most amazing shooting I've ever seen!!!  I remember that Coffey was their star that year, so we were all suprised at the show that Esker put on.

Tony Darden was much quicker than Esker, and probably comparable in shooting.  Kountze didn't go anywhere that year, though, because of Hardin Jefferson (State Finalist) and there was only 1 team in the playoffs from each district.  I don't think Tony had much support around him, either.

[AggiesAreWe]

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[quote author=FanintheStands link=topic=64022.msg734284#msg734284 date=1261515779]
[quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=64022.msg734272#msg734272 date=1261512740]
The best "short" player for Kountze has to be Esker Boykin. He was the "Spudd Webb" before Spudd came along. The '5"6 dunk artist with the smooth jumper. Esker was a fine player.
[/quote]What year?  Was he around '78?
[/quote]

1977. He and [b]William[/b] Coffey took Kountze to the title game that year but lost to Morton 63-60.
[/quote]

Russell Coffey....
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Yes, my bad. It was Russell Coffey. He and Esker were a dynamic combo.

[rayray1968]

The best small player in Kountze was the Keithan Hancock , who scored 30+ to lead Kountze to the 3a title his senior year.  He has to be the leading scorer in Kountze history. I remember his freshman year he scored 30 plus in a game against a 4a school. If he was off Kountze had problems, but he finally got it rolling at Austin. But the best leader at guard for Kountze was Josh Hancock. Tremaine was also very good. Thanks to the Hancock family for keeping Kountze rolling thru the a whole decade.