A pair of Palm Beach County boys basketball standouts earned All-State first team honors Wednesday, while two more were named to the third team.
Cardinal Newman senior guard K.J. Fitzgerald (center) was named to the FABC/Source Hoops boys basketball Class 5A first team Wednesday. (Damon Higgins/Palm Beach Post)
St. Andrew’s combo guard Anthony Polite, a two-time All-Area Small Schools Player of the Year, and Cardinal Newman guard K.J. Fitzgerald – an All-Area first-teamer – were named to the FABC/Source Hoops Class 5A All-State boys basketball first team.
Polite, an FSU signee, and Fitzgerald, who has yet to announce his college decision, are seniors.
Oxbridge Academy guard Keidron Smith, a junior, was named to the Class 5A third team. He also is an All-Area first-team selection.
Suncoast junior forward Miclenby Geffrard, an All-Area Big Schools first-team selection, was named to the Class 6A third team.
Players were selected based on in-person evaluations, a review of all-area teams selected by media from around the state, and recognition from the Florida Association of Basketball Coaches.
Here are the FABC/Source Hoops Class 5A and 6A All-State boys basketball teams, with local players highlighted in bold:
Class 6A
FIRST TEAM
Marquez Cooper, 6-2 SR, Holiday Anclote
Corbin Merritt, 6-10 SR, Tallahassee Godby
Ryan Wallace, 5-11 SR, Jacksonville Ribault
Amari Haynes, 6-9 SR, Cape Coral Mariner
Romeo Crouch, 6-1 SR, Titusville
SECOND TEAM
Malcolm Richardson, 6-3 SR, Jacksonville Terry Parker
David Pierce, 6-3 JR, St. Petersburg Gibbs
Keon Ellis, 6-5 JR, Leesburg
C.J. Harris, 5-11 SR, Sebring
Jacorian Calloway, 6-4 SR, Lynn Haven Mosely
THIRD TEAM
Maurice Goolsby, 6-6 SO, Dunnellon
Jahmel Myers, 6-7 JR, Cape Coral Mariner
Rugde Hyppolite, 6-1 SR, Naples Lely
Miclenby Geffrard, 6-3 JR, Riviera Beach Suncoast
Steven Darst, 6-2 SR, Tampa Jesuit
Class 5A
FIRST TEAM
Kevin Knox, 6-9 SR, Tampa Catholic
Anthony Polite, 6-6 SR, Boca Raton St. Andrews
Jerald Butler, 6-4 SR, Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian
David Nickleberry, 6-7 SR, Windermere Prep
K.J. Fitzgerald, 5-11 SR, West Palm Beach Cardinal Newman
SECOND TEAM
Jamal Mashburn, Jr, 6-0 FR, Miami Gulliver Prep
Trent Buttrick, 6-8 SR, Community School of Naples
Penda Wiggins, ??? SR, Pensacola Catholic
Vernon Carey, 6-9 SO, Fort Lauderdale University School
Victor Uyaelunmo, 6-11 SR, Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian
THIRD TEAM
Keidron Smith, 6-4 JR, West Palm Beach Oxbridge Academy
Jalin Pugh, 6-5 SR, Ocala Trinity Catholic
Keyshawn Curry, 6-4 SR, Jacksonville Jackson
Antonio Youngblood, 6-5 SR, Cocoa
Tre Mann, 6-2 SO, The Villages Charter
