Basketball: Werts, Bond Land on UCBAC First Team

Monty Werts and Travonn Bond of the Warriors boys basketball team were named to the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference Chesapeake Division First Team, as selected by the conference's head coaches.

The seniors were joined by Aberdeen sophomore Tevon Saddler, Fallston senior Tyler Smith and Joppatowne senior Shendell Chase.

Werts missed much of the season’s first half due to injury, but he returned in the latter half of the year and was the Warriors best player. He played in just 16 games, but led the Warriors in scoring at 12.8 points per game and rebounding at 9.2 per game. The undersized forward was one of the best in the conference in the paint, despite giving up a size advantage to his opponents each night.

Bond did about everything for the Warriors as their floor leader. The point guard was third in the conference in free throw percentage (83.8 percent, 62-for-74) fourth in the conference in assists (4.6 per game), seventh in three point shooting percentage (33.3 percent, 26-for-78), and 12th in steals (2.0 per game).

Five players made both first and second team, and another four were chosen as honorable mention.

Senior Nate Jones was named to the second team, joined by senior Gerrae Williams, Fallston senior Garrett Fender, and Edgewood juniors Thomas Dillard and Van Rolle.

Jones was second on the Warriors in scoring at 12.5 points per game and rebounding at 6.3 per game. He was sixth in the conference in free throw percentage (75.0, 60-for-80) and ninth in field goal percentage (52.4 percent, 98-for-187).

The Warriors boys team finished 11-1 in the division and 16-7 overall, losing to Owings Mills in the region playoffs.

For the girls all-conference teams, senior Candace Knight was the team's lone selection. Knight was one of seven players named honorable mention in the Susquehanna Division. The Warriors girls team finished 1-13 in the division and 1-18 overall.