Frank Burlison

WILMINGTON, DE – The “Most Outstanding Player” honors were sprinkled liberally following the conclusion of the Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph boys’ basketball camp Sunday afternoon at the Nothing But Net Sports Academy.

Front-court sophomores Braxton Bogard, Peach Brand and Logan Chwastyk shared the “overall” Most Outstanding honors, chosen by camp founder and director Dinos Trigonis.

Sophomore guard Nolyn Proudfoot – the best jump shooter in the 160-player camp – and 6-foot-10 eighth grader Emmanuel Quedraogo shared Top 30 Crème of the Crop all-star MOP after leading the white jerseys to an 81-72 victory in the event-closing clash.

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WILMINGTON, DE – Two of the best posts in the national class of 2028 could face off in Sunday afternoon’s Top 25 “Crème of the Crop” All-Star game.

It would be a fitting finale for the Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph boys’ basketball camp at the Nothing But Net Sports Academy.

Those two Pennsylvania-based players, Peace Brand (pictured/left) and Logan Chwastyk (pictured/right), were among the standouts in Saturday’s opening day on the last of the four stops for Pangos founder and director Dinos Trigonis’ fall showcase event for players in the freshmen and sophomore classes.

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THOUSAND OAKS – Teams from three of the programs that participated in last season’s CIF Southern Section Open Division boys’ basketball playoffs are among those playing in a seven-game event at Westlake High Saturday.

With the “real season” set to tip off on Nov. 17, CIF SS and State Regional Open runner-up Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, along with State Division I champion Sierra Canyon, as well as Santa Margarita (which plays twice) are among the 13 squads in action.

Admission, good for all day, is $25.

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EASTVALE – Steve Singleton, whose Roosevelt High boys’ basketball, team went 35-2 last season while winning CIF Southern Section and State Open Division championship, has stepped down as the program’s head coach, he told his players Thursday afternoon in a 4 o’clock team meeting.

Johnny Dukes, who spent four seasons as the head coach at Rancho Verde before being hired by the Roosevelt administration and serving as Singleton’s assistant during summer and fall competition, takes over as the head coach of the Mustangs’ program.

“I decided that I’m ‘done’ (as the program’s coach) and really didn’t think it was to best to wait (until the end of the coming season to step down),” said Singleton, who will remain a member of the school’s faculty.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – The 94-player USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team minicamp wrapped up Sunday evening, illustrating once more what’s it like to watch three days of basketball in which there is nothing “average” about any of the athletes in action.

Selecting the guys that most impressed me over the seven sessions of drills and scrimmaging – running, roughly, 90 minutes to two hours a pop – is easy . . . pretty much, all of them.

But, narrowing 90-something to a dozen is significantly more arduous.

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