With one weekend of high school basketball down, it's now SportsFest's turn to showcase what they have on store for this weekend's A-Town Throwdown at Cedar Beach.

Liberty, Freedom and Bethlehem Catholic will all be engaged for more basketball action this weekend, as 12 pools of four teams converge on the asphalt.

Each team is guaranteed three games of competition within their pool before play breaks off to Sunday's single elimination 16-team bracket.

For Freedom head coach Joe Stellato, it's another opportunity for his team to get a crack at competitive games this summer.

"We use the summer league action as an opportunity for our players to get better," Stellato said, "but when it comes to Stellar and SportsFest, we want to win games. This is where we lean on our best guys to get us forward and we hope that can happen this weekend."

Freedom is sandwiched in a pool with North Hunterdon, Del Val Charter and Lincoln Leadership Academy. The Pates open up against North Hunterdon at 6pm Friday, followed by a 5pm tussle with Lincoln on Saturday, capped off by an 8pm contest against Del Val.

The winner of each pool moves onto Sunday's action, along with four more teams from the 12 pools to provide a 16-team bracket.

Liberty takes the court on Friday night against Burlington Township at 7pm and continue play at 10am Saturday against Hempfield. They close out the day at 1pm against Northern Lehigh.

Bethlehem Catholic plays Thursday at 6pm against Phillipsburg and get a day of rest in between, continuing action at 11am against Salisbury on Saturday morning. The Hawks then finish the day off with Constitution at 2pm.

"We won this tournament three years ago and won Stellar two years ago," Stellato said. "It's a great opportunity for all the teams involved, but we haven't been playing that well this summer. I just hope our kids saw how teams competed at Stellar and how hard they played. We looked lackadaisical at times and we need to change that this weekend."