Lemon achieves his objective

Kevin McCarthy
 

Sometimes no news blossoms into great news and the following is a capital letter example. In recently searching the ’net, minimal recruiting chatter appeared about Robbie Lemons, a stellar shooter with a solid display of the fundamentals. But why? How?

Lemons will be a Cardinal

A backcourter at the Sacramento County Day School (SCDS), Lemons led the Sacramento area in scoring as a junior at 28 points per game, demonstrating the ability to score from outside, mid-range and at the hoop. Lemons understands how to play and executes such on the court, aspects the average fan misses. Well, any wondering is now moot as he has committed to a PAC-10 school.

The 6-foot-3 Lemons recently reached an agreement with Johnny Dawkins and staff to be a recruited walk-on at Stanford. He’s moving from a high school Cavalier to a college Cardinal and, of course, he’s excited.

"Stanford has always been my dream school and this is definitely the best available opportunity for me," Lemons offered. His academic achievements -- loads of advanced placement classes and a 5.0 grade point average -- obviously also worked in his being able to follow the rainbow from Sacramento to Palo Alto.

He has already enjoyed a long relationship with hoops on The Farm. "I’ve attended the Stanford boys basketball camp since the fourth grade and the High Potential Camp since the seventh grade," he explained.

Lemons is expected to play mostly the two guard. He is looking to major in the medical field.

But first comes his final prep season. SCDS went 14-11 last season, 7-7 in Sacramento Metro League league play, and a league title would be a great way to go out.

"I want to thank Phil Handy, Dave Ancrum, my high school coach and my parents for everything they have done," Lemons said.

Let’s close with two quotes from an earlier article on Lemons: First up is Handy: "Robbie Lemons defines ’student-athlete’ because there are not many kids like him who truly put forth the same amount of energy into both hitting the books and working on their basketball skills as he does. He comes from a great family and any school who can get him will have a model citizen in their program, a well-rounded kid who happens to know how to play basketball." Ancrum added: "If he didn’t play basketball, you would still want to hang out with him. That’s the kind of person he is."