{"id":137729,"date":"2026-01-30T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137729\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:43:14","slug":"jacksonville-area-high-school-top-performers-for-jan-28-29-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137729\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville area high school top performers for Jan. 28-29 | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the area\u2019s top high school sports performers for Jan. 28-29. Top performers are based on the results sent in by the coaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Jan. 29<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS BASKETBALL<\/p>\n<p>Kinsey Cave, East Duplin: The junior scored 23 points in a 61-41 victory over Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett Holley, East Duplin: The freshman scored 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>Brinkleyanne Lucas, Southwest: The sophomore scored 15 points in a 61-41 loss to East Duplin.<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Ferguson, White Oak: The sophomore had 10 points, three rebounds and one assist in a 37-27 win over D.H. Conley.<\/p>\n<p>Aariel Jemison, White Oak: The senior had 11 points, six rebounds, four steals, three blocks and an assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Jan. 28<\/p>\n<p>BOYS BASKETBALL<\/p>\n<p>Kannon McBride, Croatan: The junior had 14 points, seven rebounds, two assists and two steals in an 80-32 victory over East Carteret.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Thorpe, Croatan: The senior had 20 points, two assists, one rebound, one steal and one block.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS BASKETBALL<\/p>\n<p>Neely McMannen, Croatan: The senior had 18 points, four steals, two rebounds and two assists in a 60-22 win over East Carteret.<\/p>\n<p>Lilly Miller, Croatan: The sophomore had 10 points, nine rebounds and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Miller can be contacted via email at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdnews.com\/sports\/jacksonville-area-high-school-top-performers-for-jan-28-29\/mailto:cmiller@jdnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cmiller@jdnews.com<\/a>. Follow him on X @jdnsports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the area\u2019s top high school sports performers for Jan. 28-29. Top performers are based on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-137729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}