Young stars control pace in Raiders' win

Buy PhotoPARKER CITY — There’s plenty of senior leadership on both Wapahani and Monroe Central’s boys basketball teams, but at times, the matchup between them Friday night felt like a game centered on young talent, not old.

With two sophomores — Wapahani's Peyton West and Monroe Central's Israel Nash — running their team’s respective offenses, the pressure was on young players with small resumes to lead a team of juniors and seniors.

West and Nash controlled the tempo in Wapahani’s 62-48 win over Monroe Central. They guarded each other roughly half the time, two of the most explosive players on the court trying to score and stop one another.

For West, he began getting starts late in his…