Sho Evans of Cleveland High was thrown into the fire as a freshman guard last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was hard,\u201d he said. \u201cI was trying not to mess up.\u201d<\/p>\n
This season as a 6-foot-4 sophomore, you can see his growing confidence and calmness. He\u2019s had a 39-point game and isn\u2019t afraid to launch a three.<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned to play with confidence and take what the defense gives me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The development of Evans gives Cleveland another offensive weapon to go with 6-8 center Sergine Deme and guards TJ Wansa and Charlie Adams.<\/p>\n
Evans had 17 points on Wednesday in a win over Granada Hills. His first name comes from his Japanese roots. <\/p>\n
The Dodgers have Shohei Ohtani, but Cleveland is happy to have its own Sho.<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sho Evans of Cleveland High was thrown into the fire as a freshman guard last season. \u201cIt was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[69964,69962,13507,6352,426,69960,53013,22164,48,52,51,47,50,49,1417,6310,422,69961,69963,316,1543],"class_list":["post-137753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-center-sergine-deme","tag-charlie-adams","tag-cleveland","tag-confidence","tag-dodgers","tag-evans","tag-first-name","tag-granada-hills","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-point","tag-prep-talk","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sophomore-guard-sho-evans","tag-tj-wansa","tag-wednesday","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}