We celebrated longtime manager Larry Goodwin and his 40th birthday prior to the game. Larry has been with the boys basketball program for 26 years!!!
The team responded with a 76-52 win over Steubenville. Cole Wilkinson 18 pts, Brett Phillips 17 pts, and Aiden Davis 15 pts.
Senior Avery Lee has broken the school record for consecutive made free throws. He has now made 35 free throws in a row!
The previous school record was held by all-stater Tony Gordon (1982) with 33 consecutive makes.
February 14, 1989 - Anthony Reed scores 5️⃣0️⃣ points in a road win at Weirton. He made 16 FG (8 three pointers) and was 10-12 at the FT line. Anthony went on to a tremendous career at Cleveland State University!
Alex Vargo scored a school record 53 points last night in our win vs. South. Below are the top 4 scoring performances in boys 🏀 school history:
1. Alex Vargo - 53 pts (2020)
2. Michael Jebbia- 52 pts (1998)
3. Durran Goodwin - 51 pts (2001)
4. Anthony Reed - 50 pts (1989)
Congratulations to junior Aiden Davis who went over 1,000 points tonight for his career! He becomes the 18th player in school history to achieve this milestone. Aiden was also game MVP tonight in the big come from behind win over Huntington!
Congratulations to seniors Beau Heller, Avery Lee, and D.J. Saunders who were all selected to play in the 2021 OVAC All-Star game!
The game will be played Sunday, May 16 at Wheeling Park High School. 🏀
Congratulations to junior Alex Vargo who was named AAA First Team All-State. Alex is only the seventh junior in school history to earn First Team All-State honors.
We would like to thank these 3 seniors - Travis, Xavier, and Alex for all of their effort over the years. They guided the team to an 18-6 record this past year, a regional title, and a state tourney berth. They combined to average 50.8 points per game in 2019-20! Best of luck!
Rising junior Aiden Davis had a great visit today at Nova Southeastern (FL)! He is coming off a season where he averaged 20.3 points per game and made 89 3pt field goals.
Thank you to
@WLUHoops
for a super weekend! Our team had a great time and finished 7-1 over the weekend. We defeated Peters Township (PA) 53-52 today in the finals to win the tournament championship.
Final score: Wheeling Park 84 Parkersburg South 67. Keondre’ King 36 points. Alex Vargo 26 points and 19 rebounds. Jack Stakem 12 points. First win at South since 2015.
Friday, December 17, 1993 - Wheeling Park opens the season with a 87-68 win over DuPont High School in Charleston. The Park placed all 5 starters in double figures. DuPont was led by 3 future pro athletes in Randy Moss, Jason Williams and Bobby Howard.
Final score from Kingwood - Wheeling Park 59 Preston 58. D.J. Saunders with the game-winning basket.
Avery Lee 21 points
Brett Phillips 15 points
Beau Heller 11 points
#TBT
Errin Baynes - one of the best athletes to ever come out of WPHS. All-State in soccer, All-State in basketball, 3x high jump state champion. University of Southern California graduate!!!
Congratulations to junior Aiden Davis who broke the school record last night for career three pointers! He now has 203 three point field goals in his career.
The previous record was held by 3x first team all-stater Bubby Goodwin who had 202 three pointers from 2007-2011.
What a great night! Congratulations Kelvin ‘Bubby’ Goodwin! WPHS Hall of Fame Class of 2023! Hall of Fame athlete and Hall of Fame person. You took our basketball program to a new level and you still packed the gym tonight!
Junior Aiden Davis has broken another school record. He now has the most points scored by a junior in a season. Aiden has scored 623 points for an average of 26.0.
Anthony Reed held the previous record scoring 604 points during the 1987-88 season.
Aiden has 1,505 career pts
The Sam Andy Basketball Classic will return to
@WesBancoArena
🏀 Friday, December 10, 2021
4:30 p.m. Weirton vs. Linsly (boys)
6:15 p.m. Capital vs. Wheeling Park (boys)
8:00 p.m. Indian Creek vs. Wheeling Park (girls)
Congrats to Bubby Goodwin who will be inducted to the WPHS Hall of Fame on Saturday!
🏀 Most wins in a career (84)
🏀 Led team to State Tournament 3x
🏀 Led team to State Finals twice
🏀 Most 3 pt goals in a career (202)
🏀 1,555 career points
🏀 3x First Team All-State
🏀 AAAA All-State 🏀
- Second Team
Avery Lee - 16.7 points per game, 87.5% FT, school record 37 consecutive made free throws
- Honorable Mention
Beau Heller - 12.7 points per game, 46.4% 3pt FG
D.J. Saunders - 6.8 points per game, 6.2 assists per game
Congrats to senior captain Makel Galloway! He was honored last night by the Wheeling Elks for the 2021-2022 sportsmanship award. Makel will attend WVU in the fall!
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Jimmy Paige. Jimmy was a First Team All-State basketball player in 1978 for the Patriots. He then became a star student-athlete at Bethany College. Jimmy was a tremendous leader in our community and state. He will be missed.
Good luck to our former players who are preparing for the upcoming college basketball season !
Keondre’ King - WVU Tech
Alex Vargo - Youngstown State
Travis Zimmerman - Bethany
Jack Lewton - WV Wesleyan
D.J. Saunders - Wheeling
Congratulations to Rafael Cruz who will be inducted into the OVAC Hall of Fame! He was the 1997 WV Player of the Year and helped lead us to the 1995 AAA state championship.
Rafael scored 1,306 career points at WPHS and played his college ball at UMass and Youngstown State.
Wheeling Park is the only AAA school in the last 8 years that has played in the following state championship games: Baseball (2018), Football (2015), and Boys Basketball (2011).
Big win over
#3
ranked Huntington tonight at WV State!!!!!
Final score: 66-61
Aiden Davis 31 points
Amare Johnson 13 points
Mykel Davis 10 points
- Great comeback as we were down 13 points in the second half
Final from WesBanco Arena - Wheeling Park 60 Martins Ferry (OH) 53. Alex Vargo 28 points and 15 rebounds. Keondre’ King 15 points. De’Vaughn McWhorter 11 points. Coach Jebbia wins 200th game at WPHS. Next game Tuesday night at University. 5:45/7:30
It was nice to watch Keondre’ King play last night in Pittsburgh! He is in year 4 as a student-athlete at WVU-Tech. He has improved each year and is currently averaging 10.4 points per game. More importantly, he will earn his degree in May. Wheeling Park is proud of you!
2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣-2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣:
🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
16-10
Regional Champions
AAAA State Tournament
School records:
- Most three pointers made in a season by a team (160)
- Most points scored in a game by a freshman (Aiden Davis, 27)
- Most points scored in a season by a freshman (Aiden Davis, 394)
We had a special guest at practice today! Thank you to Anthony Reed who was in town and spoke to our team today!
🏀 1988 Gatorade Player of the Year
🏀 1988, 1989 1st Team All-State
🏀 1,290 career points
🏀 Played at Cleveland State
Tough loss to end our season tonight. University has a very good basketball team. Good luck to them next week. We would like to thank our 6 seniors for everything they have done for us over the years!!!
Congrats to our guys who made the 2018 Class AAA All-State team: Alex Vargo - 2nd Team, Keondre’ King - 3rd Team, Jack Stakem and Travis Zimmerman - Honorable Mention.
Senior D.J. Saunders representing Team WV in the US Basketball games this weekend! The event is being held in Atlanta, Georgia. D.J. averaged 6.1 assists per game last season as a junior.
Final score - Wheeling Park 63 Parkersburg 57
Avery Lee 27 points
Beau Heller 17 points
Caleb Francis 9 points
We are back on the road Wednesday night at Brooke.
Aiden Davis was selected as one of the captains of the All-Valley basketball team this weekend! He is the first sophomore in boys basketball at WPHS to captain the All-Valley team.
The Palace on the Hill was alive tonight! Congrats to our players on a nice victory ! Thank you to the WPHS students and adults for the support. JM Friday night at home!!!!!
Varsity team also wins tonight at Brooke. Alex Vargo 28 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists. Keondre’ King 23 points, De’Vaughn McWhorter 15 points, and Dustin VanSickle 10 points.
Former WPHS basketball star Keondre’ King helped lead WVU Tech to a win today! He scored 11 points on 3-5 from three point range in 20 minutes of action. Tech defeated Southeastern University 76-75.
🏆 Regional Champions 🏆
Wheeling Park 50 Bridgeport 45
Brett Phillips 21 points
Aiden Davis 17 points
We are headed to the State Tournament next week in Charleston!!!!!!
Sam Andy 🏀 Classic - Friday, December 15 @ WesBanco Arena... Doors open 4 pm .. 5:00 pm - Shadyside vs. Linsly... 6:45 pm - Indian Creek vs Weir... 8:30 pm - Union Local vs Wheeling Park ... students $5, adults $7.... OVAC and WVSSAC passes will be honored
Final score: Wheeling Park 64 Buckhannon-Upshur 56. Jack Stakem 19 points, 7 rebounds, 4 steals. Alex Vargo 18 points and 9 rebounds. Donovan Goddard with a big 4th quarter.
We just finished a tour of the WVU basketball practice facility! We are now heading to Kingwood to play Preston High School.
🔵JV - 5:00 pm
🔵Varsity - 6:30 pm
Mykel Davis is just the 4th player in program history to earn all-tournament off one state tournament game. The others were Tony Gordon (1982), Rafael Cruz (1996), and Daree Goodwin (2006).
Mykel averaged 13.9 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game this season.
Former Park forward Travis Zimmerman played his first college basketball game today for Bethany. He scored 8 points and had 8 rebounds in a loss to Franciscan. He played 25 minutes.
We will make our 23rd trip to the state tournament later this week!
Thursday, March 17
🆚 Parkersburg South
📍 Charleston Coliseum
⏰ 9:30 am
🎟 Tickets can be purchased in the main office at WPHS or the Charleston Coliseum box office
In the OVAC semifinal win last night, junior Aiden Davis passed Rafael Cruz (1,306) and Shane Mallett (1,310) on the WPHS all-time scoring list.
Aiden is now
#5
on the all-time scoring list with 1,315 career points!!!
@MykelDavis1of1
is leaving Wheeling Park High School as one of the best three sport athletes in school history!!!
🏈First Team All-State
🏀State Tournament - All-Tournament
🏅6-10 High Jumper
Thank you to all the fans who came to ‘The Palace’ last night!!!
We now play next Thursday, March 19th in the WVSSAC State Tournament vs. George Washington.
7:15 pm at the Charleston Coliseum
Golden Bears: 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
Point Park: 7️⃣0️⃣
Another big offensive output in the Armory behind Keondre King’s (
@K_king_theGOAT
) career high 34 points on 9-11 from 3‼️
21-4, 12-2 in
@RiverStatesConf
#DYJ
We are exactly 1 month away from our season opener vs. Meadowbrook in the Sam Andy Classic. 7:00 pm
@WesBancoArena
. Our girls team will open the Sam Andy Classic at 5:15 pm vs. Fort Frye.
Final score from the Palace - Wheeling Park 74 Parkersburg 59
Aiden Davis 27 points
Brett Phillips 24 points
Cole Wilkinson 11 points
We are back in action Tuesday night at home vs. Steubenville
5:45 pm/7:30 pm
Tough win on the road tonight at JM 57-54. Keondre’ King and Alex Vargo 17. Travis Zimmerman 10. Also, congratulations to JM’s Gunner Thompson for going over 1,000 points for his career. Tremendous accomplishment.
Nice win tonight! Dustin VanSickle with the game winning basket. He scored 7 points in the final 3 minutes of the game. Good luck to Big Red on the remainder of the season.
WP 85 St. C 61
Morris 20
Heller 19
Vargo 17
Saunders 11
Zimmerman 10
Tonight’s win is our 700th in school history (1976-2020)
Also, senior Alex Vargo goes over 1,500 points for his career.
We play again Saturday at home vs Preston JV 4:15, Varsity 6:00
🏀 Big School All-Valley Team 🏀
Beau Heller - First Team
Avery Lee - First Team
Brett Phillips - Second Team
D.J. Saunders - Second Team
Shaheed Jackson - Third Team
🏀 2022 Sam Andy Classic 🏀
Friday, December 9
@WesBancoArena
4:30 pm - Magnolia vs. Union Local (boys)
6:15 pm - Berlin Hiland vs. Wheeling Park (girls)
8:00 pm - Zanesville vs. Wheeling Park (boys)
Big School All-Valley was released today: Keondre’ King and Alex Vargo (First Team); Jack Stakem and Travis Zimmerman (Third Team); Alex Dunlevy (Honorable Mention).
2019 Sam Andy 🏀 Classic
Friday, December 13
@WesBancoArena
5:15 pm - Fort Frye vs WPHS (girls)
7:00 pm - Meadowbrook vs. WPHS
8:45 pm - Magnolia vs. Cameron
Adults $7
Students $5
OVAC and WVSSAC passes will be honored
We are 1️⃣ week away!
2023 Sam Andy Basketball Classic
Friday, Dec. 8
@WesBancoArena
4:00 pm - St. Clairsville vs. Brooke (boys)
6:00 pm - John Marshall vs. Wheeling Park (girls)
8:00 pm - John Marshall vs. Wheeling Park (boys)
- all games will be televised on FOX9