Sports

WHB Boys Basketball Back

Truman Hahn and Robby Schumacher

December 19, 2024

Coming off a strong season last year, the boys WHB basketball team is looking to dominate this season.

The boys had a great team last year, going 14-2 overall. After a first round bye, the Hurricanes hosted Deer Park who defeated the Hurricanes by 10 points, 64-54.

Westhampton’s coach Connor Davis discussed how he will approach this upcoming season differently from last year, He said, “The approach is not different. We want to continue to grow and be the best team we can be. The outlook and expectations are different. I believe last year we were the hunters. No one was really concerned with us. This year we are the ones being hunted.”

This season the Hurricanes have two of Newsday’s Top 100 players in senior forward Jorden Bennett and junior guard Truman Hahn.

Jorden, soon to be wrapping up his WHB basketball career, has major goals before his time comes to a close. He shared, “I hope to become the League MVP this year, be able to be selected as a All-State player, and to score 1,000 points.”

The Hurricanes have many other key pieces to their team as well that will be very important to their success like junior guard Malachi Bullock and sophomore guard Sam Quinn.

The Canes are off to a 2-1 in league play as of December 18th and looking to continue in the win column.

With a tough road ahead and some very difficult matchups, the Hurricanes are still confident that a trip to the Long Island Championship is very possible.

Follow @whb_hurricane_hoopers for updates on the team!

About the Contributors

Truman Hahn, Staff Writer

Truman, a junior at WHBHS, currently lives in Remsenburg. He was born in Brooklyn but moved to Connecticut when he was 7 years old with his parents and two siblings. At WHBHS, Truman plays basketball for Westhampton. Some of his interests include playing NBA2K with his friends and basketball training with Airnandez. A little known fact about Truman is that he used to play the violin. One of Truman’s major goals is to help lead the Westhampton basketball team to a Long Island Championship. He has hopes to join the 1,000 point club for his basketball career, and has dreams to play basketball in college. For college, he hopes to major in sports management and be a sports agent. He is most happy when watching the latest UFC fight card, and cheering on his Fantasy Football team on Sundays.

Robby Schumacher, Staff Writer

Robby is a junior at WHBHS From Remsenburg. In his free time, he likes spending time with his family, working out and playing video games. His dream is to someday watch the Knicks win an NBA championship. He plays basketball and tennis for WHB and is self-proclaimed ambidextrous. The best place Robby has traveled to is the Amalfi Coast in Italy. In the future he plans to work somewhere in the sports industry, but his goal for this year is to make the high honor roll. This is his first year writing for The Hurricane Eye.