BY MARC JIMENEZ
It’s been quite a season for Half Hollow Hills West sophomore Tobias Harris. He scored 24 points during a 64-34 rout over Hauppauge on Tuesday to become Hills West’s all-time leading scorer. Harris now has 735 career points, moving him past Andre Lawrie (Class of 2003), who netted 730.
“This is probably the biggest accomplishment I have had in basketball,” said Harris, who also set a school record by scoring 39 against Northport on Dec. 14. “It feels good to set the school record and be at the top of the list. This was one of my goals to be on top of the scoring list. Another one of my goals is to score 1,000 points in my career."
Harris joined varsity as an eighth grader, where he was a sixth man, before coming into his own as a freshman. He scored 403 points as a ninth grader to set the school's all-time record as a freshman. Once again Harris bested Lawrie’s record. Lawrie scored 298 points as a freshman.
This season, Harris is averaging 31 points per game and is a budding superstar according to Hills West coach Bill Mitaritonna.
“He’s has worked very hard to accomplish this goal and his teammates deserve a lot of the credit for getting him the ball,” Mitaritonna said. “There’s no question that he is the best player I have ever coached. The sky’s the limit for him.”