SoCalHoops Recruiting News

Belmont Shore Makes It To Final Of  
Houston's "Kingwood Classic"--(Apr. 30, 2001)

We heard from Dinos Trigonis late last night (or actually very early this morning) following Belmont Shore's return from the Kingwood Classic in Houston, Texas, and the news was pretty good, considering that both Belmont Shore and SCA had each lost their two pool play games (see the pool assignments below--there were just two games played in each pool).   Evidently, Belmont Shore turned things around quickly, making it all the way to the Championship game, losing in overtime and they also handily beat SCA in the process.  Here's Dinos' note about what happened:

Belmont Shore Rallies To Final of 2001 Kingwood TX Classic:
Loses in OT to Kentucky Stars in Championship Game
(April 29, 2000)

Belmont Shore led by 6'4" junior Hassan Adams (Los Angeles Westchester) and 6'8" sophomore Harrison Schaen (Santa Ana Mater Dei) rebounded from pool  play losses to Houston Hoops (anchored by 6'10" super soph Kendrick Perkins)  and Shreveport Bossier Select and rallied to win three Sunday playoff games  before losing in OT (78-69) in the championship game to the Kentucky Stars.

It its Sunday playoff run, Belmont Shore knocked off the Houston  Hardballers (87-75) in the 1st round, Southern California All-Stars (101-81)  in the quarter-finals, Team Texasi (led by Top 25 national junior prospects  Bryan Hopkins and Bracey Wright) n the semi-finals (88-78) before facing  Kentucky Stars featuring 6'4" junior Michael Bush in the championship game.

In the final, Belmont Shore led at half-time and most of the 2nd half  before a last second Kentucky Stars' three-point shot forced an overtime  period where the KY Stars used to its bench depth to overpower an 8 man  Belmont Shore squad which was playing its 4th game of the day. Other top   teams participating in this event were the Georgia Stars, Houston Select,   Dallas Dirty Dozen, Houston Gold, Houston Lynx and KYBA Select.

Adams was superb on Sunday, scoring 22 points versus Houston Hardballers,  26 points against the Southern Cal All-Stars, 23 vs. Team Texas and 21  against the KY Stars. Also playing well for Belmont Shore was its four  sophomores: 6'8" Harrison Schaen, 6'3" Wesley Washington (Santa Ana Mater  Dei), 6'8" Trevor Ariza (Los Angeles Westchester) and 6'1" Marcus Williams  (Los Angeles Crenshaw). Joining Adams as juniors on this team were 6'7" Marcedes Lewis (Long Beach Poly/committed to UCLA for both football and   basketball), 6'6" Tony Melum (Newport Harbor) and 5'10" Carlos Rivers (Long  Beach Poly). Two Belmont Shore players did not make the trip: 6'1" junior   Patrick Haddan (Irvine Woodbridge/school related reasons) and 6'7" sophomore   Jamaal Walls (prep school TBA/illness).

If you want the official tournament results, you can visit the CBBL website, official home of the Houston Kingwood Classic, and the 17-U bracket in particular. Here were the pool assignments in the 17-U division:

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