Frank Burlison

LONG BEACH – Six-foot-eight seniors Jorge Ochoa (La Mirada High) and Elijah Price (St. Anthony) scored 21 and 14 points, respectively to lead the white jerseys to a 79-64 victor over their black counterparts Tuesday night in the Crème of the Crop All-Star.

The game, the last of four played in the Assumption Greek Church gymnasium, served as the finale to the three-week Pangos Best of SoCal Fall League.

Scoring in double figures for the black jerseys were 6-4 jump shooter-deluxe Malik Moore (a senior at Heritage Christian) and 6-8 Jimmy Oladokun Jr.

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LAS VEGAS – Class of 2022 post Jaxon Kohler’s performance Sunday afternoon was a precise, on-court definition of dominating while he led the West to the championship of the second Pangos All-American Festival 4 in the Ampus Academy Gymnasium.

Kohler, from Utah but set to play for his fourth prep program in Southern California Academy, used his size (6-foot-8ish and 240 pounds or so), strength, unparalleled footwork, deep bag of ball and head fakes, shooting touch and – especially – patience to score 53 points as the West toppled its East counterpart, 133-112.

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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.

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ORLANDO – Guard Jaden Bradley scored 19 points with nine assists and three steals to help the “Atlanta Hawks” knock off the “Milwaukee Bucks”, 87-68, in the tournament championship game on Friday’s final day of the NBPA Top 100 Camp in Disney World.

Bradley, who is from Concord in North Carolina but will be a senior at IMG Academy, teamed with two other backcourt standouts in Keyonte George (18 points and four assists) and Dylan Andrews (12 points and two assists).

The camp, which featured about 60 players, tipped off with on-court action on Tuesday night.

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MANHATTAN BEACH, Ca. – Three Top 30 Crème of the Crop selections from the June 6-8 Pangos All-American Camp were among the multitude of standouts Thursday night during the Pangos Premier 80 Showcase in Mira Costa High’s spiffy new gymnasium.

Two of the elite prospects from the national class of 2022, 6-foot-8 Aidan Shaw (Brandon, MO, Link Academy) and 7-foot Adrame Diongue (Chandler, AZ, Compass Prep), impacted play at both ends of the floor – notably on defense.

Diongue was among several outstanding shot blockers at the event while Shaw’s energy in challenging dribblers, passers and shooters was in over-gear each moment he was on the floor.

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