Leo, Gates among Horizon honorees

Cleveland State freshman and Eastlake North graduate Destiny Leo was among several CSU women’s and men’s basketball Horizon League honorees announced Feb. 23.

Leo was named HL Sixth Player of the Year, and to the league’s allfreshman team. Leo averaged 11.1 points and 2.6 rebounds per game during the regular season. She scored a season-high 23 against Oakland. Teammate Mariah White was named HL Defensive Player of the Year.

Vikings men’s coach Dennis Gates was named HL Coach of the Year for the second straight season. CSU was 16-4 in conference games and shared the league title with Wright State. It’s CSU’s first league title in 10 years.

CSU junior Tre Gomillion was named HL Defensive Player of the Year. Senior Torrey Patton was named first team all-conference. Gomillion and and junior Deante Johnson were named to the alldefensive team.

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New Orleans forward Zion Williamson now can be called an NBA All-Star, and only three others in the game’s 70year history have gotten there at a younger age.

Williamson is one of four first-time All-Stars, all revealed when the league announced the reserves for the March 7 game in Atlanta. Joining him as fellow All-Star rookies: Boston’s Jaylen Brown, New York’s Julius Randle and Chicago’s Zach LaVine.

Phoenix’s Chris Paul is an All-Star for the 11th time, and Brooklyn’s James Harden is one for the ninth consecutive year. The rest of the reserves include Philadelphia’s Ben Simmons, Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Orlando’s Nikola Vucevic from the Eastern Conference, along with the Los Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis, the Los Angeles Clippers’ Paul George, Utah teammates Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, and Portland’s Damian Lillard from the Western Conference.

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MARINERS DAMAGE CONTROL » Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto and manager Scott Servais are doing damage control with players who were directly mentioned or referenced by former team CEO Kevin Mather in an online video that led to his resignation. The message over the past two days to those affected has been: you have every right to be upset. “We are very open with our players and urge them to be the same. And if they want to be angry, they should be, frankly. They should be insulted,” Dipoto said. “But at the same time, they are collectively driven toward what we’re trying to do here as a team.”