College Corner: Broad Run Grad Johnson Averages Double Digits for Mary Washington Hoops; Valley Grad Yoxthimer Gets Starts as FR

College Corner with Dan Sousa

Fredericksburg (March 13, 2013) - Broad Run High School grad Taylor "T-Bone" Johnson averaged 10.9 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game for the University of Mary Washington men's basketball team this season.


Mary Washington's season ended on Feb. 21 when they fell 89-81 in the Capital Athletic Conference semifinals to No. 1 seed St. Mary's (Md.) Seahawks. Johnson, a 6-foot-3 sophomore guard, scored 14 points off the bench in the loss.

Johnson played in 25 games for Mary Washington (14-13 record) with 17 starts. He shot 47.2 percent from the field including 44.9 percent from 3-point range. Johnson scored 19 twice -- at North Carolina Wesleyan on Nov. 28 and against Emory and Henry on Jan. 2 -- and scored 18 twice -- against Maryland Bible on Nov. 25 and against Marymount on Feb. 2.

Mary Washington also has Loudoun Valley grad John Yoxthimer on the roster. The 6-5 freshman forward played in 26 games with 7 starts. He averaged 2.7 points per game on sizzling shooting of 61.7 percent from the field and he averaged 2.0 rebounds per contest.

Boys Basketball: Potomac Falls' Graves Named D4 State Player of the Year

Greg Graves at his college signing earlier this year with NCAA D1 Mount Saint Mary's

(March 27, 2012) - Potomac Falls High School senior Greg Graves, who finished his boys basketball career with the Panthers with 1,000+ points and rebounds, has been named the Virginia High School Coaches Association Division 4 Player of the Year for the state of Virginia.

The Panthers won state titles in 2010 and 2011 with Graves and made it to the state semifinals this past season.

Also honored were Briar Woods senior Myles Tate and Loudoun Valley senior John Yoxthimer as Honorable Mention all-state. See the full selections:

Boys Basketball: Tis the Season for Milestones! Park View's Ryan McCarter Breaks Billy King's 28-Year-old Scoring Mark; LC's Anderson, LV's Yoxthimer, PF's Graves, WG's Gilson Achieve Records

Ryan McCarter

(Dec. 22, 2011) - The snow may not be falling in this balmiest of winter's but the boys basketball records are dropping nightly in a milestone opening to the season with Park View High School senior Ryan McCarter breaking Billy King's 28-year-old school single game scoring mark with 44 points Wednesday in the Patriots 99-70 win at Dominion.

Also on Wednesday, Potomac Falls senior Greg Graves reached the 1,000-point career scoring mark as he scored 32 points with 15 rebounds as the Panthers finished on a 15-0 run to beat Broad Run, 66-53. Graves has an amazing 700 career rebounds as well!

McCarter's record-breaking and Graves' milestone are not alone as Loudoun County junior Michael Anderson set the Raiders single-game scoring record on Monday night with 43 points in a 76-65 win over Park View. And earlier in the season, Loudoun Valley senior John Yoxthimer broke a Viking school mark that had stood since the 1970s as he moved past Charles Warner career rebounding total of 457. Yoxthimer is also money to break the 1,000-point scoring mark this season.

And in the 1,000-point scoring milestone, Woodgrove coach Steve Douglas reports that Brad Gilson broke that milestone last week in a game against Heritage when Gilson's point totals from his freshman season are figured in with his sophomore year at Loudoun Valley and the past two seasons with new Woodgrove.

Boys Basketball: Piling up the Points in Purcellville! Valley's Yoxthimer Sets School Scoring Mark and Headed for Milestones; Woodgrov'es Gilson One of Tops in Metro Area Scoring Average

Loudoun Valley JR John Yoxthimer

(Feb. 8, 2011) - They have been piling up the points in Purcellville this season as Loudoun Valley High School junior John Yoxthimer, well on his way to becoming the school's first ever 1,000-point/500-rebound player, set the school's single-game scoring mark with 49 points Friday in a win over Oakdale, and Woodgrove High School junior Brad Gilson is No. 3 in the Washington Post's Metro Area scoring with an average of 25.2 points per game.

Gilson at 6-foot-5 opened the season on a tear, scoring 37 against Brentsville and 36 against Manassas Park and he has scored in double figures in every game this season with 42 points against fellow new school Tuscarora.

Woodgrove's Brad Gilson

Yoxthimer's 49-point gem Friday in the 84-73 win broke a Viking school record that had stood for 23 years -- Chris Leonard's 42 point performance in 1988.

"Not sure he will catch Chris Leonard for career points of 1,585 but he will be close," said Loudoun Valley coach Chad Dawson. "But he should definitely eclipse 1,000 points which will make him the 1st 1,000 point and 500 rebounder in our 50 years of Loudoun Valley basketball."

First team all-Cedar Run District as a sophomore, Yoxthimer has scored 395 points and grabbed 174 rebounds this season to give him 768 career points and 401 total rebounds. The school records for rebounds is 457 held by Charles Warrnr, who played in the 1970s.

Look for both Gilson and Yoxthimer to celebrate 1,000-point milestones next season and for Yoxthimer to become the Vikings all-time career leading rebounder.