Riverside Academy guard Gage Lavardain, the Friday Night Football player of the year, is stellar in hoops, too.
Lavardain scored 49 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, and handed out 4 assists in a 79-67 win over Catholic of Baton Rouge Thursday night.
Lavardain has no Division I offers, in either football or baseball. He has a D-II offer from Ouachita Baptist .
“I have coached a lot of guards,” said Riverside Academy head coach Timmy Byrd. “He’s in the same class of Tweedy (Carter) and Jared (Butler). Carter played at Baylor. Butler is a star guard on the current Baylor team, one of the tops in college basketball.
Byrd said Lavardain is “right at 28 points a game, and a triple, double.”