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Ylan Phan (22) hustles to get control of the ball. Photo by Michele Meyers
Seabreeze varsity basketball team watches the JV team play Pine Ridge before they hit the court. Photo by Michele Meyers
Sandcrabs JV team celebrate after their 21-19 win against the Panthers at Pine Ridge High School. Photo by Michele Meyers
Varsity player McKenna Mangus watches the Seabreeze JV basketball team play before their game against Pine Ridge. Photo by Michele Meyers
Ocean Summers and Ylan Phan (22) warm-up before their game against Pine Ridge in Deltona. Photo by Michele Meyers
Twyla Murraine warms-up before the game against Pine Ridge. Photo by Michele Meyers
Keeva Heggins, Katrina Omarza, Sarah Randolph and McKenna Mangus warmp-up before the game against the Panthers at Pine Ridge High School. Photo by Michele Meyers
Seabreeze varsity basketball team stands for the national anthem before their game at Pine Ridge High School. Photo by Michele Meyers
Jamie Bandell jumps for the ball to start the game against the Panthers in Deltona. Photo by Michele Meyers
Coach John Rogers calls the play as Sarah Randolph leads the team down court. Photo by Michele Meyers
Pine Ridge fans went wild after they scored their first points. Photo by Michele Meyers
Seabreeze guard Ocean Summers battles for the ball against Pine Ridge Panthers. Photo by Michele Meyers
Keeva Heggins scrambles to control the ball as teammate Katrina Omarza runs to support. Photo by Michele Meyers
Foul? Keeva Heggins questions the referee's call. Photo by Michele Meyers
Ocean Summers makes the shot as Pine Ridge is called for an intentional foul. Photo by Michele Meyers
Sarah Randolph (32) focuses on the basketball during the game against Pine Ridge. Photo by Michele Meyers
Look out lady ballers, the Sandcrabs have a faster lineup that will be blistering the courts this season.
After a loss to the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind on Tuesday, Nov. 16, senior Ocean Summers led the charge against the Panthers the following Friday with 16 points resulting in a 45-28 win for Seabreeze on the Pine Ridge High School courts in Deltona.
“We started off slow tonight,” Sandcrabs’ head coach John Rogers said. “I benched a couple of players for disciplinary reasons. Once I put the starters on the floor, they turned the game around.”
Rogers changed the trajectory of the team from placing last in districts during their 2018 season to placing fourth when he started coaching the varsity in 2019. Last season they finished 12-7 but lost a district game to Matanzas putting them in third behind the Pirates. His plan for this long 24-game season is to focus on the “second season”—the district playoffs.
“The plan is to win, to hustle and put it all on the court.” KEEVA HEGGINS, Seabreeze shooting guard
Summers, who is sporting a new flower tattoo on her right shoulder, has been hitting the weights and working on her sprints in preparation for her last year playing high school ball. As the team captain, she knows the importance of leading by example.
“Once we hit the floor, we all just sync up and do the same thing,” she said. “My goal is to go as hard as I can, get as many wins as I can and then go to play college ball. I’m not sure where I want to go. I just know I want to go to school for nursing.”
Two freshmen dominated the ‘Crabs full-court press—Keeva Heggins and Ylan Phan. Heggins has played since the sixth grade and Phan has been playing competitively for two years. Per coach Rogers, both bring heart and hustle to Seabreeze’s game.
“The plan is to win, to hustle and put it all on the court,” Heggins said.
After Thanksgiving break, the Sandcrabs will face-off against Matanzas Tuesday, Nov. 30 at home.
