Mike Christmas earned MVP honors in the Hampton Roads 7 Cities Pro-Am summer basketball league for the Harvey Lindsay championship team.
Christmas, a former Landstown High and James Madison Dukes player now with Longwood, averaged 33 points, highlighted by a 50-point game July 23.
Christmas @mikexmas23 just named @7CitiesProAM 2023 League MVP🏆 pic.twitter.com/viCGaG3PhR
— SuperEricRogers (@SuperEricRogers) July 30, 2023
In the final of the league’s one-day playoff tournament in Norview High’s gym, Harvey Lindsay outlasted Jarcam 105-103 Sunday.
In the final, former Cape Henry, Virginia Tech and Texas Tech player Chris Clarke netted 23 points for Harvey Lindsay. Eli White, a Kempsville High alum who competes in college for Bluefield, and Randy Stafford added 19 apiece.
Bluefield’s Eli White. CHAMPION. pic.twitter.com/aOmpPx1RXT
— SuperEricRogers (@SuperEricRogers) July 30, 2023
Jarcam got 31 points from Hampton University’s Jerry Deng and 23 from K.J. Stagger. Lorenzo Cherry added 17 and Nigel Ribeiro — also known as the budding rapper NiE — had 16.
In the semifinals, Clarke scored 30 points as Harvey Lindsay defeated the Wildcats 101-95. White added 19 points and Stafford 17 for the victors.
Jarcam defeated Team Brown 88-81 behind Da’Shawn Cook’s 35 points and Xavier Green’s 25. Deng scored 24 and Cherry added 18 for JarCam.
Earlier, the Wildcats won 79-57 over the Barristers.
Jarcam received a forfeit victory in the first round because the Langley Raptors failed to appear in time, thanks to a traffic incident that clogged traffic around the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
