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Patterson High School's Dajon Richard
(The Daily Review/Corwin Murray)

Abbeville tops Patterson to clinch outright District 8-3A title

Abbeville came to Patterson Friday looking to win the District 8-3A championship outright and for a little payback. Abbeville secured the championship with a 56-44 win. “We wanted to play good defense,” Abbeville Coach Berwick Hamilton said. “I felt that if we could keep 31 (Elijah Williams) and 4 (Kai Schexnayder) from doing what they do, which is shoot the ball, then we had a chance tonight, and we did that. They got flustered because once they got accustomed to our man (man-to-man defense), we went to our matchup zone. They thought it was still man, and it is, but you ...

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