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LAKE COUNTY >> If Trey Conrad was the straw that stirred the drink during Kelseyville’s championship season in 2017-18, Scott Conrad was the guy doing the stirring.
Both have prominent spots on the 2017-18 edition of the All-League County boys basketball team as selected by the Lake County Record-Bee with a season’s worth of input from area coaches.
The talented father-and-son Conrad team left its fingerprints all over a 22-5 campaign for the Knights, one that produced a second straight undisputed North Central League I title and another North Coast Section playoff berth.
To be sure, the Conrads weren’t the only reason Kelseyville won 20-plus games for a second straight season. Every member of Kelseyville’s starting five and several of the Knights’ bench players contributed greatly to the team’s success at multiple points along the way.
MVP
Trey Conrad, the Knights’ ultra-talented point guard, is the easy pick for most valuable player honors. While a point guard’s primary responsibility is to run the offense, which Conrad excelled at, he wasn’t just a passer although his six assists a game led the team. He also was a scorer who could light it up from the 3-point line. Conrad averaged a team-best 15.4 points a game and his 67 treys were tops on the squad.
First team
Members of the All-County first team are Kelseyville senior guard Randy Pfann, who was the Knights’ second-leading scorer behind MVP Conrad, the dymanic Middletown duo of senior guard Thomas Cook and sophomore forward Andres Cervantes, Clear Lake senior guard Tanner Hutton, who topped 1,000 career points late in the season, and Upper Lake junior guard forward Kenny Hodges, who filled up the stats sheet on a nightly basis for the 18-9 Cougars, averaging 19.0 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 2.4 steals and 2.1 blocks a game.
Second team
Second-team All-County selections include Kelseyville’s front court of senior forwards Jon Vanderwall and Scott Sanchez, Lower Lake senior guard/forward Hokulani Wickard, a four-year varsity veteran who finishes his career with 1,477 points, Middletown senior forward Jeff Morris, and Upper Lake senior center Colton Goetjen, who averaged a team best 12.2 rebounds a game while also scoring 8.6 points a game.
Coach of the Year
When your teams goes 13-1 in back-to-back NCL I campaigns and navigates a dangerous maze of opponents such as Middletown, Cloverdale and Clear Lake, you’re certainly doing something right. Conrad pulled all the right strings for the Knights with his senior-dominated squad, one that served him and the Kelseyville program well for the last four years.
