LA GRANGE, IL – Sophomores Dekwon Brown and Payton Kamin led the black jerseys past their white counterparts, 99-94, Sunday afternoon in The Top 30 Cream of the Crop Game to cap the annual two-day Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp at the Park District sports facility.
The 6-foot-3 Brown (Limestone Community on Bartonville, about 170 miles southwest of Chicago) opened the game with three 3-pointers, finishing with 17 points, and the 6-6 Kamin (DePaul Prep in Chicago) sizzled after intermission, when he drilled four clutch 3s en route to his 16-point effort.
This was the third stop on the Pangos Frosh-Soph fall circuit, following the West (Long Beach in Southern California) and South (Duncanville, near Dallas) sessions.
The East and final session will be contested in Mt. Laurel in New Jersey next weekend.
The Chicago St. Rita Class of 2024, 6-9 post duo of James Brown and Morez Johnson Jr. – dominant presences all weekend in and around the lane – did their best to keep the white jerseys close, scoring 19 and 13 points, respectively.
The “Browns” (no relation) were their respective team’s Most Outstanding Players in the Top 30 game, while sophomores Tyler Wooten (6-2/Matteson, IL, Rich Township) and Christian Humphrey-Rembert (6-8/La Porte, IN, La Lumiere) shared the honoring for the winning black jerseys in their 86-62 win in the earlier Top 6- Cream of the Crop affair.
All of the games were live-stream and archived by BallerTV.
No “Most Outstanding Player” for the entire camp was selected (in consolation with myself, my fellow McDonald’s All-American Selection Committee member Van Coleman and event founder/director Dinos Trigonis.
But I could – and did – build strong cases for at least five players getting that honor: the Browns, Johnson, Bryce Heard (a freshman “wing” from Chicago Kenwood Academy) and sophomore combo guard-deluxe K.J. Windham (Indianapolis Ben Davis/PICTURED).
My Top 15 “performers’ for the camp are listed in order below, by position
(point guard; shooting guard; small forward; power forward; and center) and were selected because of how well they played when I watched them and NOT strictly upon college “potential”.
TOP 15
FIRST TEAM
Dekwon Brown 6-3 Bartonville (IL) Limestone Community So.
K.J. Windham 6-3 Indianapolis (Ben Davis) So.
Bryce Heard 6-6 Chicago Kenwood Academy Fr.
Morez Johnson Jr. 6-9 Chicago St. Rita So.
James Brown 6-9 Chicago St. Rita So.
SECOND TEAM
Damon Davis 5-11 Chicago Whitney Young So.
Davion Hannah 6-4 Milwaukee Academy of Science Fr.
Ian Miletic 6-5 Rolling Meadows (IL) Fr.
Jason Jakstys 6-8 Yorkville (IL) So.
Jaden Smith 6-10 Chicago Lincoln Park So.
THIRD TEAM
Cole Hansen 6-4 Milwaukee Wauwatosa West So.
Xavier Johnson 6-2 Detroit University Jesuit Fr.
Calvin Robins Jr. 6-4 Chicago Kenwood Academy So.
Christian Humphrey-Rembert 6-8 La Porte (IN) La Lumiere So.
Kieran Granville-Britten 6-8 Cincinnati Taft Fr.
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