LAS VEGAS – East will tangle with West in the championship game of the second Pangos All-American Festival Sunday afternoon at 2 (PT).
In Sunday’s third-place game (set to tip at noon), the Midwest takes on the South after dropping semifinal contests with the East (131-128 in overtime) and West (95-92), respectively, Saturday evening in the gymnasium of the Amplus Academy.
Both contests are scheduled to be televised by BallerTV.
In the first game Saturday, Fabio Basili – a senior (Class of 2022) point guard from Oakridge High in Orlando, FL – knocked in a 3 from the top of the key with 19.7 seconds to go for the East to put things into overtime.
Senior forward Ven-Allen Lubin (Orlando Christian) – who played well at the Pangos All-American Camp in early June in Las Vegas and during the NBPA Top 100 Camp in his hometown last month – sank two free throws with 13 seconds to go in overtime and also camp up with a nifty block down the stretch to help secure the victory.
Basili (pictured), who played for the E1T1 squad on the Nike/EYBL circuit, was credited with a “triple double” – 18 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists with just one turnover in a team-high 34 minutes while Lubin scored a team-best 23 points with eight rebounds.
Senior guards Trey Pettigrew (Kenwood Academy in Chicago) and Oziyah Sellers (Southern California Academy) led the Midwest while hitting a combined 10 3s for 35 and 31 points, respectively.
Sellers, who attended Modesto Christian in central California as a freshman and sophomore, committed to the University of Southern California two weeks ago.
In the second game Saturday, the West led by 16 points with about six minutes before its turnovers and clanked free throws almost enabled the South to successfully complete a furious rally.
R.J. Jones (Plano, TX, John Paul II – a Top 30 All-Star selection at the Pangos AA Camp – showed why he’s one of the Class of 2023 elite shooting guards with a game-high 29 points.
Eighteen of those points, and five of his eight 3s, came after intermission and helped fuel the South’s rally.
Mookie Cook, a 6-6 junior from Portland who is attending Compass Prep in Chandler, AZ, scored 19 points to pace the six West players who scored in double figures.
Senior posts Jaxon Kohler (from Utah but playing for SoCal Academy as a senior), Kijani Wright (an L.A. Windward-to-Sierra Canyon transfer who recently joined Sellers in saying he would sign with USC in November) and Joshua Jefferson (Liberty in near-by Henderson) combined for 38 points and 33 rebounds for the West.
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