LYNWOOD, Ca. – The Harvard-Westlake Class of 2024 duo of Robert Hinton and Trent Perry continued its assault on the Pangos All-American Preview competition as the two-day hoops showcase event wrapped up Sunday afternoon at Lynwood High.
The 6-foot-5 Hinton and his 6-4 HW classmate shared “tri-Player of the Camp” honors – as selected by Pangos CEO Dinos Trigonis — with another current sophomore, Seven Bahati.
Bahati was a freshman standout at Los Altos High in Hacienda Heights before spending his sophomore “season” coming off the bench for the “Donda Academy” program that is based in the San Fernando but isn’t allowed to compete against California Interscholastic Federation (which includes Southern, L.A. City and San Diego “section” members) teams.
Perry (pictured) started Sunday morning’s final round of “Pac 12 and Big Ten” camp play by scoring a game-high 27 points – including seven 3s – while leading “Stanford” past “Oregon”, 100-85.
Oregon was led by another exceptional member of the Southern California sophomore class, 6-4 Tyrone Riley (St. Pius /St. Matthias in Downey), who scored 15 points while showcasing the versatility that helps makes him one of the better Class of 2024 prospects in California.
Hinton had a series of spectacular finishes – dunks and high-degree-of-difficulty layups – Sunday that rivaled those he provided social media videographers Saturday.
He, Riley and another sophomore, Ben Roseborough (Prolific Prep in Napa), and a freshman, Gavin Hightower (L.A. Windward), are key members of the Nike/EYBL Russell Westbrook-fronted “Why Not?” 16s team. Each played in the Top 30 Cream of the Crop Game that put a bow on things Sunday.
Perry is also a standout on the Nike/EYBL circuit but with the Vegas Elite 16s.
The Top 60 game also had numerous camp standouts, notably 6-3 Devin Ringer (a sophomore who helped Fairfax win the L.A. City Open Division title) who scored 22 points in the blue jerseys’ win over their white-wearing counterparts to bag the game’s Most Outstanding Player tag.
One of the best freshmen in the camp (which attracted 95 participants), 6-3 Isaiah Cunningham (Rainier Beach in Seattle), scored a team-high 16 points for the white jerseys to go along with a couple of nifty blocked shots – one of those on a Ringer jumper.
And, based upon his play over the weekend (including the Top 60 game with the blue jerseys) and with the Prodigy Elite 17s club program, look for 6-4 guard Dylan Victorio to have a terrific senior season for Ayala of Chino Hills in 2022-23.
Picking pick MOP honors for the Top 30 affair was 6-6 Anthony Gilkes, a sophomore who is now part of the Southern California Academy program. He is from New York City by way of a year and a half or so in Bradenton, FL, where he attended IMG Academy.
Gilkes scored 31 points for the winning white jerseys in an affair that dropped a big hammer on the notion that getting guys to play “defense” in all-star games is an easy sell.
Five non-California “based” players were selected to the Top 30 game: sophomores Chris Arias (Jackson, FL, Providence School); Dylan Purnell (Memphis Tennessee Prep Academy); Quentin Rhymes (Las Vegas Bishop Gorman) and Jalen Milt (Norfolk, CA, Norview), and freshman Alexander Lloyd (Ft. Lauderdale Westminster Academy).
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