Log In


Reset Password
LEHIGH VALLEY WEATHER

Summer hoops team still perfect

If Tuesday night's summer league game was a tuneup for the upcoming summer tournaments, the Parkland boys basketball team will be rearing to go.

The Trojans dismantled an undermanned Easton team 68-34 at Cedar Beach last Tuesday night, their last game before opening up play at the annual Stellar showcase event which begins next Thursday night.

The Trojans had three different players score in double figures and had two more score eight in the rout of the Red Rovers.

"Everyone's playing well," said head coach Andy Stephens. "The key to the summer is just to go out and play and try and have fun.

"As coaches, we try to get the guys to mesh together and get some chemistry going."

Having to focus on inserting four new players into the starting lineup this winter, Stephens can look at a team that has gone unblemished up to this point during summer league play.

Two of those players that may be injected into the starting five this winter, senior Kevin Delourie and junior Kyle Stout, tallied eleven and ten points respectively.

Sophomore big man, and the only returning starter, Sam Iorio, had a game high 17.

"We need to keep building the chemistry, because it's been different since last year [with a lot of new players]," said Stephens. "It's a lot of new faces so us as coaches have to see what works and what doesn't."

Devante Cross, who had eight points in the win over Easton, may be tagged as the point guard taking over the reigns held over the last two years by Jimmy Hahn.

Now with Stellar and Sportsfest upon them as their next competition, Parkland will be one of the teams to beat.

"We want to win," said Stephens. "But we also want to get better and play together. Seeing the guys having fun has been a bright spot for me."