The honors keep rolling in for the Carroll Academy boys basketball team.
Seniors Reese Fulton and Logan Taylor were both recently named to the Class 3A All-MAIS team.
The two players were among eight players in Class 3A honored by the MAIS.
Fulton makes the All-MAIS team for the second straight season after averaging 19 points, 14 rebounds, six blocks and four assists for the Rebels, who lost in the Class 3A finals to Columbia.
“Reese made the team last year and he was the first boy to make it in a while but it’s been a few years,” Carroll coach Tommy Acy said. “To be named to the All-MAIS team is a big honor for both of them. I called both of them to let them know and they were both excited that they both made the team.”
Columbia’s Tate Duncan was named the Player of the Year for Class 3A, an honor that easily could have been given to Fulton.
“He was certainly in the running for it,” Acy said. “If the state championship had went a different way, it might have been Reese. The kid who won it was well deserving. They beat us head to head so he had that. But Reese is a special player, a once-in-a-lifetime kind of player.”
Also making the squad is Taylor, who averaged 15 points, eight assists, five rebounds and four steals. Acy said he couldn’t overvalue Taylor’s importance to the team.
“You can basically narrow down Logan’s importance to the team to one game,” Acy said. “The first time we played Oak Hill, Logan got into foul trouble early and had to sit on the bench. We noticed pretty quick that we were a completely different team with him off the court. They beat us pretty bad that day. But sitting over there, he got to see how important he was to the team. From that day forward, he played a really smart season and did what we wanted. He was my leader on the floor and my best defender as well.”
Fulton and Taylor were among four seniors on the team along with Morgan Mims and Austin Smith, a “There’s no doubt they will be missed, that’s for sure,” Acy said of his seniors. “It’s not just their scoring because we do have a good ninth grade class. It’s their leadership. Like Logan, he just got better every year from the seventh grade until he graduated. Their scoring was important but their leadership was the most important thing. We didn’t have drama and they coached each other. They were a special group.”
