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A familiar name is among Saturday Pangos standouts

October 6, 2024 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

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.

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Pangos West Camp closes with tight all-star clashes

September 22, 2024 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

LONG BEACH – The initial stop on the fall Pangos Frosh/Soph Boys’ Basketball Camp circuit wrapped up Sunday afternoon with a couple of dandy all-star games at  McBride High.

In the finale, the black jerseys withstood a terrific rally, fueled by guards Hunter Caplan and Karter Butler, to hold off the white jerseys, 105-103, in the West’s Top 30 clash.

Sophomore forward Jalen White scored a team-high 19 points (including three 3s) for the black jerseys while Caplan scored a game-high 21 points (hitting five of seven shots from behind the arc) and Butler added 10 assists, five rebounds and three steals

White was selected the Top 30 Game Most Outstanding Player.

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Classes of ’27 and ’28 show off skill in the LBC Saturday

September 22, 2024 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

LONG BEACH – Many of the western-based boys basketball standouts in the Classes of 2027 and ’28 jammed the McBride High gymnasium Saturday for the annual Pangos All-West Frosh/Soph Camp.

Players from the Southland, Northern California, Arizona, Nevada and other states as far away as Georgia were among Saturday standouts in an event that attracted nearly 200 participants.

Among some of those who rocked it, baby, during their two games they played Saturday were:

*The two best Class of 2027 point guard-types from the northern portion of Cali, 6-foot N.J.

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Ryse Up games set for Redondo High this weekend

September 20, 2024 By Frank Burlison 213 Comments

REDONDO BEACH – Nineteen boys basketball games – made up of players from some of the top high school programs in Southern California – are set for Redondo High Saturday and Sunday during the Ryse Up Fall Classic.

The event is held in honor of the late Ryse Williams, the all-CIF Southern Selection at Redondo High who died of a rare form of cancer (Renal Medullary Carcinoma) one day before his high school graduation in 2017.

The event will raise money for the Ryse Williams Foundation, which awards scholarships to high school students while raising awareness of RMC.

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All the boys’ hoop news you need from last weekend

September 16, 2024 By Frank Burlison 240 Comments

LONG BEACH – Some of the better Southern California-based boys high school and prep school players in the Classes of 2025 and ’26 were on display Sunday afternoon at McBride High during the Pangos Best of SoCal Showcase.

Four games were played, split between players in the senior and junior classes.

Several of the programs whose teams are expected to contend for CIF Southern Section Open Division playoff spots were represented Sunday.

St. John Bosco (6-foot-2 Gavin Dean-Moss), Redondo Union (6-4 Devin Wright) and Los Alamitos (6-5 Tyler Lopez) placed players in the second Juniors contest.

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Frank Burlison is a well-regarded basketball writer who was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2005. His opinions on the potential of high school and college players are widely respected and sought by college coaches and NBA scouts, personnel directors and general managers from coast to coast. Oh, yes – he can offer plenty of thoughts on movies, television and pop music. Yes, he can rank those, too. Hint: He’s a big The Godfather, Larry Sanders, The Wire and The Beatles loyalist.

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