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Top 10 Moments of the 2018-19 DFW Sports Season: #6
We keep right on moving with our Number 6 moment of the 2018-19 season.
Bobby Witt Jr. Takes All The Awards
Expectations are a tricky thing. They provide a floor to which an athlete should perform and how they are graded as either declining, leveling off or excelling.
In the 2019 season, expectations were sky high for Colleyville Heritage's senior shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. Brining in comparisons to Alex Rodriguez as a prospect, earning tournament MVP for the 18U National Team and touted as a sure-fire Top 5 draft pick were just some of the accolades being thrown in Witt's direction.
Lo and behold, the senior took those expectations head on to the tune of a .482 batting average, 15 home runs, 55 RBI, 65 runs scored, a district championship and a 5A state title in 2019.
Witt, who was committed to Oklahoma before the 2019 campaign started, elevated his play and was rewarded handsomely by being the first high schooler to be named a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award (a college baseball player award), earning the Texas Gatorade Player of the Year, Gatorade National Player of the Year, USAToday's All-USA Baseball Player of the Year and fulfilled the draft prophecy by being selected No. 2 overall in the June draft by the Kansas City Royals.
The future is bright for the former Heritage star as he begins his professional career. As of this posting, he has one game under his belt in the Arizona Rookie League.
Top 10 Moments of the 2018-19 DFW Sports Season: #8
We move forward to our next Top 10 moment of the 2018-19 DFW sports year with No. 8.
Three From 9-6A Tabbed McDonald's All-Americans
Back in mid-January, more than 40 athletes from the DFW were nominated to be McDonald's All-Americans with 39 of those athletes coming from the girls' side.
This meant there would be a good chance that at least one player from the Metroplex would be selected to participate in the premier high school all-star basketball game.
Lo and behold, not only did the Metroplex have a representative, it would land five total. Of those five, three players from one district would make the cut.
District 9-6A this past season was staked with talent in girls basketball, and that was never more evident than when Nyah Green (Allen), Jordyn Oliver (Prosper) and Jaden Owens (Plano West) were all selected to the West team in the girls game - the other two players were on the boys side (Tyrese Maxey from South Garland and Samuell Williamson from Rockwall).
Each player had great careers and landed D1, Power 5 scholarships to continue their basketball careers with Green signed to Louisville, Oliver to Baylor and Owens to UCLA.
Combined, the three scored nine points and grabbed 11 boards in 44 minutes of play as the West team lost 83-68 to the East.
| Player | FG-FGA | 3P-3PA | FT-FTA | REB | POINTS | AST | BLK | STL | MIN |
| Green | 2-9 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Oliver | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Owens | 1-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| TOTALS | 4-20 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 |
The three would end up sharing Co-MVP honors for District 9-6A.
No. 9: Segler Reassignment/RJ Hampton Goes Pro
No. 10: Flower Mound Volleyball's Run to State