Sunday, March 13, 2016

Both Adirondack League EST Participants Earn 1st Team All-League Honors

Last year's 1st annual EST boys summer showcase league featured 2 regular participants from the Adirondack League. Both of them received 1st team all-league honors this year. Congrats to both standouts, listed below.

All-EST Honorable Mention Kobe Lufkin (Argyle 2017) - All-Adirondack 1st Team
Chris Boucher (Fort Edward 2016) - All-Adirondack 1st Team

Boucher & Lufkin, who are also related, both suited up last summer for Rising Stars.

In EST, Lufkin was one of the main offensive weapons for a Rising Stars team that led the league in 3s made (87 in 13 games) and averaged 65.9 PPG, 2nd by just .1 PPG to undefeated champion Team 518. Lufkin was 1 of 4 on the team that averaged double digits, pumping in 10.8 PPG, which was just outside of the Top 10. His summer high was 23, and his 130 total points was good for 7th in EST. He also hit 21 threes, 4th in EST. This winter, he was an absolute force for Section II Class D champion Argyle. His 32.3 PPG average was 3rd in Section II, and he was 1 of 2 players in the section to score over 800 points on the season - finishing 2nd with 808. Lufkin's 127 threes made not only led the section, but smashed a section record. He'll enter his senior year with 295 career treys made - only 44 behind the NYSPHSAA career record. He topped 40 points 5 times this season, including hitting a season high mark of 44 on three occasions. In one of those games, he set a Section II record with 12 made threes. Kobe has the potential of ending up very high in the section's record books for scoring, ending his junior campaign with 1,882 career points.

In EST, Boucher came through for the first 4 weeks of the season before a nagging ankle injury suffered during spring & aggravated in summer limited him for the remainder of the summer. He averaged 6.3 PPG over those 4 weeks, with a season high of 14. He followed up a prolific junior season with an even more prolific senior campaign this winter. His 35.6 PPG topped Section II. His season scoring total of 783 points was good for 3rd, as was his finishing total of 106 threes made. Boucher topped the 40 point mark on 6 different occasions, and he reached 50 twice - including a 55 point performance in their season opener that remained unmatched in Section II for the remainder of the season. Chris ended his high school career with 1,824 career points.

Congrats to both Kobe & Chris!

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