by

Richie Hall

Sports Editor

Hamilton County Reporter

Two Hamilton Southeastern players are among the 24 student-athletes that have been selected for the IndyStar Indiana boys Junior All-Stars for 2019, with Carmel head coach Ryan Osborn named as one of the assistants.

Chris Grubbs and Mabor Majak will be a part of the Red Group, one of four groups of six All-Stars that were announced on Wednesday. The other groups are the Core Group, White Group and Blue Group.

Grubbs, a 6-6 forward, averaged 12.8 points per game for the Royals this season, while the 7-0 Majak scored at an 8.4 points per game clip. Both are leading rebounders for the team, with Grubbs collecting 7.1 per game and Majak grabbing 5.7 per game. Grubbs also led Southeastern in assists with 3.4 per contest.

Osborn, an assistant for the Greyhounds before moving up to head coach in 2017, is 46-9 for his two years as head coach. Osborn will lead Carmel in the Class 4A state championship game Saturday, where the ‘Hounds will take on Ben Davis. Mark Detweiler of Delta will be the head coach for the boys Junior All-Stars, with Ryan Eakins of East Noble also assisting.

Joining Grubbs and Majak in the Red Group are Deontae Craig of Culver Military, Johnell Davis of Gary 21st Century, Zak Krueger of Homestead and Jake Wadding of Chesterton.
Players in the Core Group are Trey Galloway of Culver Academy, Jaden Ivey of Mishawaka Marian, Anthony Leal of Bloomington South, Charlie Yoder of Westview and Dre Davis and Nijel Pack of Lawrence Central.

The White Group players are Brayton Bailey of Bedford North Lawrence, Carson Barrett of Lafayette Central Catholic, Tre Coleman of Jeffersonville, Sincere McMahon of Crispus Attucks, Tayson Parker of Northwestern and Tony Perkins of Lawrence North.

The Blue Group players are Murray Becher of Heritage Hills, Maximus Gizzi of New Palestine, Noah Jager of Bloomington South, Kiyron Powell of Evansville Bosse, Kenny Tracy of Decatur Central and Andrew Welage of Greensburg.

The Junior All-Stars will play two games against the Kentucky Junior All-Stars, the first tentatively on June 1 at a Kentucky site to be announced and the second on June 3 at Jeffersonville High School. The Junior All-Stars also will play one game against the Indiana All-Star senior boys on June 5. The June 5 game also will be at a site to be announced.All three games will be doubleheaders with the 2019 Indiana girls Junior All-Stars, who were chosen and announced in late February.

The players listed as Core Group players will play in all three games. The players in the Blue Group will play on the June 1 game against Kentucky. The Players in the White Group will play in the June 3 game against Kentucky. The players in the Red Group will play in the June 5 game against the Indiana seniors.

The Indiana senior All-Stars will play the Kentucky senior All-Stars on June 7 at Bellarmine University’s Knights Hall in Louisville. The Indiana senior All-Stars will play Kentucky’s seniors again on June 8 in Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Those home-and-home events also will be girls-boys doubleheaders.

The Junior All-Star team is determined by the 20-member Indiana Basketball Coaches Association all-state panel in conjunction with its selection of the IBCA/Subway Underclass All-State Team. The selection process allows all IBCA-member head coaches to nominate players through the IBCA all-state process. Representatives from 16 regional areas from across the state, district representatives from the IHSAA districts (one each from District 1, District 2 and District 3) and the committee chair then meet to review the nominations, vote and finalize the selections.The IBCA/Subway boys basketball Senior All-State and Underclass All-State teams for 2019 will be released later this week.
The 2019 Indiana senior boys All-Star team will be announced in April. Winners of the IndyStar Mr. Basketball and IndyStar Miss Basketball titles for 2019 will be announced on May 5.