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Area basketball teams brace for more pressure in region tournament semifinals
No. 1 seed Gainesville boys keep all focus on 'the process'
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Gainesville's Xavier Bledson (13) dribbles around East Hall's Deonte Evans (12) Friday during the championship game of the Lanierland Tournament at Gainesville High School. - photo by Erin O. Smith
It comes to no surprise the status quo remains a constant for the top-seeded Gainesville boys basketball team. Despite being one of the seven area teams with first-round byes in region tournament play this year, Red Elephants coach Benjie Wood never changed the conversation with his players leading up to tonight’s Region 8-AAAAAA semifinal with No. 5 seed Winder-Barrow at Apalachee.
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