By Matthew DeGeorge
It wasn’t easy Friday night at Archbishop Carroll to spot which members of the Patriots’ rotation were freshman. It has gotten easy, however, to perennially rely on the program both placing faith in rookies and then watching them blossom.
Two of Carroll’s five double-figures scorers in a 77-66 season-opening win over Penn Wood were produced by that freshman class. Ian Williams had a team-high 16. Nasir Ralls added 10. And so the conveyor belt turns again in Carroll’s talent factory.
“I feel like those guys are prepared through AAU and their battles,” senior guard Dean Coleman-Newsome said. “They’ve been tested, so they understand that they’ve got to go in and play hard and be confident. The main thing we want for them is to be mentally poised and understand the pace of the game, controlling the pace of the game and taking shots that are timely.”