Class A-Div I: Putnam looking to make it back to postseason after last year's showing
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Putnam County is ranked atop the Score Atlanta Week 7 Boy’s Basketball rankings and the War Eagles have been excellent midway through the season.
Sitting at 11-4, Putnam County is building off its terrific season a year ago where the team went finished with a 27-3 record overall that featured an 18-game win-streak during the regular season and a second place finish in Class ADI-Region 4, finishing with an 8-1 record, only behind undefeated Greenforest.
Last season the War Eagles made it to the quarterfinals before losing to East Laurens by just two points, sending them home and ending their season.
This season, Putnam County is putting the past behind them. After starting the season 3-3, the War Eagles rattled off seven-straight wins including victories over Jasper County, Hancock Central, Morgan County, Jones County, Groves, Calvary Day and Sumter County.
This year's Putnam County team features a very upperclassmen led program as 12 of 14 players on the team are either juniors or seniors.
The scoring from the War Eagles this season comes from a pair of seniors as Jmari Greene and Tamaud Woodson have been carrying a majority of the load for Putnam County.
Greene is one of the top scorers in the entire classification averaging just over 20 points per game on 47% shooting from the field and 33% from behind the arc. Green is averaging the third-most points in the classification only behind Southwest Macon’s Chase Dupree and Mount Paran’s Shane Goines.
Woodson has been a valuable member of the team as a point guard, improvising his numbers every season since his freshman year. During his senior year this year, Woodson is averaging close to 14 points per game, as well as five rebounds and five assists, doing everything for the War Eagles in his final year of high school basketball.
Greene, Woodson and the War Eagles will be back in action this weekend starting tonight at McNair at 7:30 p.m. before facing Commerce tomorrow at home at 2 p.m.
