Checking in on James Lake, Shaheed Young and Trev Abraham

James Lake, Shaheed Young and Trev Abraham are all at Adams State this season, a D-II school playing in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Grizzlies are 7-1 overall, 5-0 in league play.

* Lake, with roots at Fairfield High and San Joaquin Delta College, leads the team with 15 points per game as a starter.

* Young, formerly of San Leandro High and San Jose City College, checks in at 7.2 points per contest and tops the squad with 12 steals, also as a starter.

* Abraham, out of Sacramento High and then Rice, is at 3.9 points an outing.

Lake leads Adams State

In the Adams State 67-65 win on Saturday over UC Colorado Springs, James (Fairfield High/San Joaquin Delta College) Lake totaled 20 points and nabbed a trio of steals for the victors. Lake is leading the Grizzlies with 16.8 points per game on the season.

Also for Adams State, Shaheed (San Jose City College) Young is averaging 6.3 points a contest and Trev (Sacramento High) Abraham leads the team with 15 assists.

Updates on all the NorCal Adams State players

Northern Arizona topped Adams State last night 86-78, a game involving two non-Nor Cal teams but Adams State does have a quartet of Nor Cal talents on its roster.

How did they perform?

* Trev Abraham - 13 minutes, nine points, two assists

* Shaheed Young - 10 minutes, seven points

* James Lake - 24 minutes, 10 points but also five TOs

* Marcus Thompson - 14 minutes, two points

A trio of Nor Cal players at Adams State

Adams State in Alamosa, Colorado beat Utah last night which ordinarily wouldn't be posted here but a bevy of NorCal talents are on the Adams State roster:

    "... an incoming player with strong shooting ability is junior Marcus Thompson (American River JC) ...

    He is another player we were fortunate to pick up who played at the junior college level for a good coach at a good program,” and Coach Louis Wilson added that he believes “Marcus can play both the three and four positions for us ...”

and

    "... Junior James Lake (Fairfield, Calif.) who last played at Delta College (Calif.), was the Mustangs leading scoring and a deep threat last winter, averaging 17 points per game whie draining 47 3-pointers.

    James is a skilled athlete who can shoot the ball with range and is explosive,” Wilson noted. “He’s built like a running back, and I think his physicality can be hard to match up with. His impact will be dictated by his ability to adjust to how hard we want to play, and once he consistently does that, the sky’s the limit.”

and

    "Junior Shaheed Young (San Francisco, Calif.) joins the Grizzlies as a point guard following a stint at San Jose City College, and before that, as a standout for San Leandro High School.

    Shaheed comes to us from one of the best programs in junior college basketball, where he played for a legendary coach who is a stickler for details, execution and character,” Wilson said. “He has been coached the right way and he is a winner. He helps us improve at the most important position on the court with his speed and quickness, and he will be a great fit for our system.”

Shaheed Young to Adams State

San Jose City College backcourter Shaheed Young is moving on to D-2 Adams State in Colorado. The former San Leandro High star will be playing for Coach Louis Wilson, a former Cal State Northridge associate head coach.

The Grizzlies, members of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, went 20-9 last season

Former SJCC forward Tyree (Oak Grove High) McCrary redshirted this season at Adams State.

Young's teammates, Quincy (McClymonds High) Hill, was featured here earlier and is headed to West Georgia.