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| H.D. Woodson basketball player shot hours after team’s dramatic win over Gonzaga | H.D. Woodson basketball player shot hours after team’s dramatic win over Gonzaga |
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| Just hours after the H.D. Woodson boys’ basketball team claimed its biggest win of the season, one of its best players was the victim in a neighborhood shooting, according to Coach Trey Mines. | Just hours after the H.D. Woodson boys’ basketball team claimed its biggest win of the season, one of its best players was the victim in a neighborhood shooting, according to Coach Trey Mines. |
| Mines confirmed that senior Kavon Montgomery spent part of Thursday night at Prince George’s Hospital Center after he was shot in the back near his home in Northeast Washington. Montgomery had just returned from Verizon Center, where the top-ranked Warriors pulled off a thrilling 105-102 double-overtime victory against No. 14 Gonzaga in the D.C. State Athletic Association tournament semifinals. | |
| Mines said Montgomery, 17, was an innocent bystander during the incident. He was released from the hospital early Friday morning and avoided serious injury. | Mines said Montgomery, 17, was an innocent bystander during the incident. He was released from the hospital early Friday morning and avoided serious injury. |
| “Somebody walked up and started shooting, and he ended up getting grazed,” Mines said. “I was scared, but nothing went in. More like a flesh wound. It’s a real sour ending to everything that’s gone on so far, but luckily it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been.” | |
| [This D.C. family endured murders and misery. Can basketball save it?] | [This D.C. family endured murders and misery. Can basketball save it?] |
| A Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman could not confirm Montgomery’s identity because he is a juvenile but said police are investigating an assault with a deadly weapon that occurred on the 300 block of 54th Street Northeast on Thursday night. The spokeswoman confirmed one victim was taken to a local hospital with gunshot wounds. | |
| H.D. Woodson (32-0) is the two-time defending D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association champion and sits just one win away from becoming the first city public school boys’ basketball team to finish a season undefeated since Spingarn in 1985. The Warriors are scheduled to face Friendship Collegiate in the DCSAA championship game Sunday afternoon at George Washington’s Smith Center. | |
| [H.D. Woodson rallies past Gonzaga in double-OT thriller] | [H.D. Woodson rallies past Gonzaga in double-OT thriller] |
| Known to friends by his nickname, “Joe Rock,” Montgomery has become an essential player in Woodson’s six-man rotation, emerging as a strong rebounder and defender with aspirations of playing at the junior college level next year. He scored eight points in Thursday’s dramatic win. | Known to friends by his nickname, “Joe Rock,” Montgomery has become an essential player in Woodson’s six-man rotation, emerging as a strong rebounder and defender with aspirations of playing at the junior college level next year. He scored eight points in Thursday’s dramatic win. |
| Montgomery celebrated with the rest of his teammates by screaming at the top of his lungs through the Verizon Center hallways after putting any doubts about the Warriors’ legitimacy to rest against a powerful Washington Catholic Athletic Conference opponent. | Montgomery celebrated with the rest of his teammates by screaming at the top of his lungs through the Verizon Center hallways after putting any doubts about the Warriors’ legitimacy to rest against a powerful Washington Catholic Athletic Conference opponent. |
| Doctors did not rule Montgomery out of the DCSAA championship game, according to Mines, and he hopes to be in the starting lineup when Woodson tries to complete its perfect season. | Doctors did not rule Montgomery out of the DCSAA championship game, according to Mines, and he hopes to be in the starting lineup when Woodson tries to complete its perfect season. |
| “He’s in good spirits,” Mines said. “In his mind, he’s going to be on the floor on Sunday, but we’ll continue to monitor him.” | “He’s in good spirits,” Mines said. “In his mind, he’s going to be on the floor on Sunday, but we’ll continue to monitor him.” |
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