Detroit, MI.- The Detroit Public School League College Association's Scholarship Games at Detroit Denby provided five games full of action and plenty of players to recruit from Detroit's metro area. The gym was packed and the heat was on blast.
The first game featured a P.S.L. battle between the Cleveland Cougars and the Douglas Hurricanes. The Cougars were victorious, 41-38. 6' sophomore guard Deonte Bonner led all scorers with 19 and 5'10" senior guard Antonio Lee added eleven for Cleveland. The majority of the Hurricanes scoring came from 6'4" junior forward John Gaston's 13 and 6'1 senior guard Nick Merchand's nine.
Another crossover game followed and Henry Ford scrapped out of a ten-point deficit with four minutes left on the game clock to defeat the host team, 69-62. 6'6 senior power forward Karriem Baker led all scorers with 28 and grabbed twelve off the boards. 6'5 junior wing Matthew Hunter (pictured) added 15 points for Ford. Denby's answer was 6'5 senior forward Johnny Wade had double digit rebounds and is a sleeper on the D2 level.
The middle game was a highlight game for coaches recruiting the Great Lake State's 2010 class as both Southfield-Lathrup and Detroit Crockett have Division I talent from mid-major plus on down. The game was full of energy, fall back in your seat moments were abundant, and in the end the school on 12 Mile, S-L, pulled out the victory, 79-70. More on the juniors, later.
Things were just warming up when the University of Detroit-Jesuit and Detroit Renaissance took the court. Three close games and it looked like things were going the other way early, as Renaissance held U.D.J. scoreless for the first few minutes of the game. The Phoenix, however, never quite shook the Cubs as a twelve-point halftime lead shrunk to five to start the fourth. The Phoenix seniors led their team to a 77-62 victory and score they did as 6'4" forward Daniel Sutherlin had fifteen rebounds and scored 29, 6'4" forward Nathan Mungro dropped 17, and 6' Delano Collins was solid with 13.
The closing game is the third that these two teams, Detroit Pershing and Romulus, have played in the last year and each team has a win. The rubber game went to Pershing as size and a couple of little known guards shot the blood out of the ball. Pershing was led by 6' senior guard Ben Richbow's 19 as he bombed three after three. 6'5 junior guard/wing Juwan Howard, jr. scored 18 and was another of the day's junior standouts. Michigan State signee 6'9 senior center Derrick Nix dropped 16 and had fifteen+ rebounds. Green's three point shooting and 19 points led Romulus. Romulus never let up as the Eagles' trio of senior guards, 5'11" Rashard Porter, 5'10" Valdez Green, and 5'8" Filmore Bouldes, played until the final buzzer.
Next Saturday's place to be is Southfield High as five more games featuring plenty of talent tips off in the early afternoon.
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