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 ...