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A familiar name is among Saturday Pangos standouts

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DUNCANVILLE, TX – The depth of high school boys’ basketball talent in the freshmen and sophomore classes was on display during Saturday’s Day I of the annual Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp at the Duncanville Fieldhouse in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb.

Seventeen states were represented among the approximate 200 players who participated – the bulk coming from within the union’s second largest and second most populated state.

Action in the second stop on the Pangos regional All-Frosh/soph fall circuit resumes Sunday morning with camp games (each of the 24 teams playing once) at 9 o’clock and wraps up with all-star games at 1:15 and 2:15 in the afternoon.

Always, all the camp action will be lived-streamed and archived by BallerTV.

Among the Saturday standouts was a sophomore with a familiar name in the annals of basketball “point-guard play”.

Six-foot-one Reese Alston (pictured/Second Baptist in Houston) displayed all the ball-handling and passing wizardry that make his dad – Rafer Alston – a New York City-cultivated legend even before spending 13 seasons in the NBA.

*In proving what “national” enterprises even “regional” basketball camps can be, two players from Oregon were also Saturday standouts.

Six-three Avery Huston and 6-4 Liam Rea more showed off their jump-shooting and finishing-at-the-rim knack in their two games Saturday.

Huston played as a freshman at Cascade Christian but now attends Dynamic Prep in Dallas.

The left-handed Rea will remain one of Oregon’s standout in-state products as a sophomore at North High in Medford.

*And there was an abundance of sophomore, freshmen and even eighth grade (Class of 2029) “bigs” who played well Saturday.

Among those were 6-9 Alex Alexander (an eighth grader at Saint Anthony in Dallas) and 6-9 freshman Xavier Young (Lewisville), who went head-up in a camp game between North Texas and Louisiana Tech Saturday afternoon.

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