Freedom and Bethlehem Catholic didn't have the type of success Liberty found during the summer months of the basketball off-season, but that doesn't mean both schools didn't learn things about themselves heading into the fall.

For Pates head coach Joe Stellato, he knows that his team has a lot of work to do once they have open sessions in the fall before practice starts in November.

"We have a lot of athletes but that doesn't always equate to wins," he said. "We need to develop more of their skills moving forward and I have to make sure that they're being taught the right things at a younger level."

Sophomore Nick King and junior Najee Cash are the two main scorers that Freedom should have at their disposal heading into next season.

Stellato will depend on them to manufacture points, but also needs more consistency from them.

"They are slashing guards and are very capable scorers," said Stellato. "They stand out from everyone else on the team because when they're scoring, we're clicking. We just need them to be more consistent with that."

Bethlehem Catholic didn't play with their full roster throughout most of the summer, as football cut into some of Mike Frew's roster, but the boss of the Hawks did get a chance to see what some of his younger players in the program can do.

"We played a lot of youth this summer and developed our bench," Frew said. "Our freshman team won the Forks Summer League for the third time in four years, so that was promising."

Chance Nelly (jr, SG), Salih Salam (jr, SF), Dat Lambert (fr, PG) and DeAndre Tillet (jr, PG) all stood out for Frew this summer.

On the girls side, Becahi's Kalista Walters has been a stand out for the Golden Hawks during her career and enters her senior season free of making a college choice.

Walters recently verbally committed to play college basketball at the University of Pittsburgh.

The six-foot senior has scored 1,631 points in her career and has led Becahi to two straight District 11 3A titles.

She enters this season only needing 173 points to become Becahi's all-time leading scorer.