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Another post season honor for Maymon

Jeronne Maymon’s illustrious has high school basketball career ended with another postseason honor.

The Madison Memorial Hiogh School senior and two-time “Mr. Basketball” and AP Player of the Year in Wisconsin has earned his second straight Big Eight Conference Player-of-the-Year honor.

The 6-foot-7 Maymon, who helped lead the Spartans to the WIAA Division 1 state title, is joined on the first team by teammate Vander Blue, Big Eight scoring champion Jason Ziemer of Verona, Marquis Mason of Madison East and Terrell Parks of Beloit Memorial.

Janesville Craig senior JoJo Pregont has been named to the second team.

Maymon, a Marquette University recruit, averaged 17.3 points a game, but did much more than score for his team, according to recently retired Janesville Craig coach Bob Suter.

“Jeronne probably could’ve scored a lot more points than he did, but he did everything he could to make that team a winner,” Suter said.

“I wasn’t impressed with him as a freshman. I thought he was a showoff and all about himself. But he really matured as a basketball player and as a young man. His basketball skills improved by leaps and bounds.”

Ziemer averaged a league-best 24.1 points a game in Verona’s first year in the Big Eight, including a 39-point game against Beloit, and was an Associated Press second-team selection.

Blue, a University of Wisconsin recruit, averaged only 15.4 points during the regular season but put on an offensive clinic in the postseason. The 6-4 Blue was the unanimous MVP of the state tournament after scoring more than 70 points in three tournament games and unleashing a variety of highlight reel dunks, along with his three-poin shooting.

The 6-7 Mason led East to a runner-up finish in the Big Eight and was part of a team that handed Memorial its only loss of the season.

Parks battled injuries all season but was able to lead Beloit to a state tournament berth.

Pregont was Craig’s most valuable player and a shot-blocking machine in the middle. The 6-6 senior, who will attend the University of Iowa as a preferred walk-on in football, averaged better than five blocks a game.

“It’s a well-deserved honor,” Suter said of Pregont’s second-team selection. “Our league was obviously very talented, and I’d put that first team up against anybody elses.

“JoJo was our most consistent player, night in and night out, and was very exciting to watch with his ability to block shots.

Like Maymon, I think JoJo could’ve scored more had he wanted to, but he was not afraid to get his teammates involved.”

Craig seniors Brad Cagney, A.J. Fredricks and Kyle Goike has received All-Big Eight honorable mention, along with Janesville Parker junior Jordan Thompson and sophomore Creed Knutson.