The leading scorer for The Christian Academy Friday night wasn't even on the Crusaders' roster for their season opener a month ago. He isn't even high school, to be honest.

The Crusaders' Tyrell Sturdivant logged 10 points and eight rebounds in TCA's 80-33 loss to Atlantic Christian, a perennial powerhouse and three-time defending champions in the Tri-County Christian Conference. The 6-4 Sturdivant, an eighth-grader, had his hands full against AC's Luk Piatrowski, a 6-11 post player who had 14 points.

But TCA coach Jon Thompson isn't all that worried about Sturdivant holding his own.

"He's a really good athlete," Thompson said. "He dunked in the JV game earlier in the day. He can't play against the PIAA schools when we play them, but we don't have too many on our schedule."