With the ball in his arms and defenders doing all they might to gradual him down, Dougherty Valley basketball star Ryan Beasley did what comes so naturally to him.
He scored, lots.
There was no deficit or opponent that might corral the USF-bound guard this season as he helped lead Dougherty Valley to championships within the Bay Space’s strongest league and the North Coast Part’s high division.
“We’ve obtained particular dudes,” coach Mike Hansen mentioned after one recreation in February.
Beasley was the dude amongst dudes on a crew that captured Dougherty Valley’s first East Bay Athletic League and NCS Open Division titles.
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The 5-foot-11 guard averaged 23.2 factors per recreation in the course of the common season. Within the postseason, he was even higher for the San Ramon faculty. Counting the EBAL match, Beasley averaged 30.6 factors over his last 5 video games.
He completed the season at 24.8 factors per recreation.
For this, the senior has been named the Bay Space Information Group’s boys basketball participant of the 12 months.
“Beasley is unimaginable,” De La Salle coach Marcus Schroeder mentioned after his crew misplaced to Dougherty Valley 65-51 within the NCS Open last.
In a highschool profession crammed with signature moments going again to his freshman season — when he went 16 for 16 from the foul line and completed with 22 factors in a double-overtime loss to Dublin within the EBAL title recreation — Beasley penned one for the historical past books on Feb. 9.
That evening, within the semifinals of the EBAL match, Dougherty Valley trailed on its house courtroom in opposition to San Ramon Valley 60-33 in the course of the third quarter.
Beasley and the opposite half of Dougherty Valley’s prolific backcourt tandem, Connor Sevilla, led a jaw-dropping comeback, erasing the 27-point deficit to win 86-83.
Held to 13 factors by way of two quarters, Beasley completed with 42, together with 24 within the fourth quarter when he was 14 of 14 from the free-throw line. Sevilla, a first-team all-Bay Space Information Group choice and the EBAL’s participant of the 12 months, scored 20 of his 29 factors after halftime.
The one issues that slowed down Beasley had been sickness and damage. He missed eight regular-season video games, together with a handful throughout league play.
As soon as he returned for good, Beasley led the Bay Space Information Group’s top-ranked crew to 2 wins over De La Salle, two wins over Granada, the comeback victory over San Ramon Valley and an emotionally-packed win at rival Dublin.
Even his last recreation, a loss to St. Joseph-Santa Maria within the semifinals of the NorCal Open Division regional, was memorable.
Trailing by 21 factors within the first half. Dougherty Valley charged again to inside three late within the third quarter earlier than finally falling 87-76.
Beasley had 36 factors.
Afterward, he held his head excessive and mentioned of his crew’s efficiency, “To be sincere, I'm simply blissful, man. We fought again. That’s all we might ask for, to depart it on the ground. That simply reveals our character.”