{"id":159817,"date":"2026-02-18T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:00:12","slug":"jacksonville-area-high-school-top-performers-for-feb-16-17-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159817\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville area high school top performers for Feb. 16-17 | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the area\u2019s top high school sports performers for Feb. 16-17. Top performers are based on the results sent in by the coaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Feb. 17<\/p>\n<p>BOYS BASKETBALL<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Crittenden, Croatan: The senior had 11 points, three rebounds and two assists in a 73-55 win over Dixon.<\/p>\n<p>Kannon McBride, Croatan: The junior had 31 points, five rebounds, five steals, three assists and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>JT Taylor, Dixon: The sophomore scored 10 points in a 73-55 loss to Croatan.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Wright, Dixon: The junior scored 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Aiden Watson, Dixon: The junior scored 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Zarion Hobbs, White Oak: The junior scored 28 points in a 76-65 double overtime win over South Central.<\/p>\n<p>Josiah Mattocks, White Oak: The senior scored 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Smith, White Oak: The senior had seven points and 11 rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS BASKETBALL<\/p>\n<p>Destini Benton, Jacksonville: The junior scored 18 points in a 54-23 victory over D.H. Conley.<\/p>\n<p>Izabella Hernandez, Jacksonville: The junior scored 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Addison King, Swansboro: The junior scored 15 points in a 37-19 win over Havelock.<\/p>\n<p>Aariel Jemison, White Oak: The senior had 17 points, five rebounds, two steals and one block in a 69-36 loss to South Central.<\/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-feb-16-17\/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 Feb. 16-17. Top performers are based on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,110],"class_list":["post-159817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159817","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=159817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}