Taft’s Drew is selected City player of the year

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North Carolina-bound point guard Larry Drew Jr. of Woodland Hills Taft has been selected the City Section player of the year in boys’ basketball by a panel of sportswriters.

Drew scored 24 points in the City Championship Division final earlier this month when Taft defeated Los Angeles Fairfax, 65-55. He is a three-time All-City selection who’s scheduled to play in next week’s McDonald’s All-American game.

Here are the first-team All-City selections: Renardo Sidney, Fairfax, Jr.; Justin Hawkins, Taft, Jr.; Eugene Phelps, Taft, Sr.; Tony Freeland, Fremont, Jr.; Laron Armstead, Fremont, Sr.; Dominique O’Connor, Westchester, Jr.; Oscar Bellfield, Westchester, Sr.; Chris Solomon, Fairfax, Sr.; Nigel Carter, Dorsey, Sr.; Jarred Dubois, Westchester, Sr.

Here are the second-team All-City selections: Wendell Lee, Washington, Sr.; Skyler Vaden, Washington, Sr.; Solomon Hill, Fairfax, Jr.; Tyler Honeycutt, Sylmar, Jr.; Alonzo Wells, View Park, Sr.; Prince Obasi, Cleveland, Jr.; Rodney Hudson, Jordan, Sr.; Kaimyn Pruitt, University, Sr.; Gaellan Bewernick, Manual Arts, Jr.; Luis Ceja, Roosevelt, Sr.; Aaron Hawk-Harris, Palisades, Sr.

-- Eric Sondheimer

-- Image by Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times