[At left, Class of 2015 Bash Townes of Virginia Beach Salem High.] On Tuesday, January 3, 2011, I drove from Charlottesville, Virginia to Virginia Beach, VA Frank Cox High, to watch a boys basketball game. The main reason I picked out this game was so I could see a high school freshman, someone in the Class of 2015, play for Salem High.
MaxPreps.com had listed Bash Townes as being 6-5 and 220 pounds. Townes plays very smoothly, and with a lot of poise for any high school basketball player, despite being a freshman on a varsity team. He came in averaging over 17 points and 10 rebounds.
Bash Townes wears jersey number 15. Divante Walker, who wears number 3, was recently offered a football scholarship by the University of Virginia! Another player I was there to see was 6-6 225 Class of 2013 quarterback Bucky Hodges, a future high school All-American who also plays high school basketball. However, Bucky Hodges didn’t suit up for tonight’s game, as punishment for missing a class.
It was snowing back in Charlottesville, Virginia in the middle of the state, but there was no snow here in Virginia Beach. However, the air in Virginia Beach was windy and in the thirties. It was COLD!
Bash Townes hit on 7 out of 9 field goal attempts, plus 4-6 free throws, for 18 points. After the first quarter, the score was Salem 11, Cox 10. Salem stretched their lead to 21-15 at the half. Salem won the game 54-49.
Although Divante Walker is a football recruit, he impressed me as a basketball player, because he had blazing speed with the basketball, and is a true point guard.
I next drove from Virginia Beach, VA to Charlotesville, a long, cold trip in the dark!
