Trailing most of the game, Hazelwood Central rallied in the fourth quarter and defeated Fort Zumwalt West 50-47 on Saturday afternoon at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Fans of the Miller Career Academy, Belleville East, Gateway Tech and Belleville West basketball teams probably still can’t believe what they witnessed.
Those four teams were involved in two of the best basketball games in recent history.
Summit center Will Clark recently made a verbal commitment to Texas Southern University recently, but said Monday he is still keeping his options open and will wait until the spring to sign a letter of intent.
The Shootout, once considered one of the country’s premier high school basketball events, was cancelled a year ago with hopes that it might return in 2008.
It appears that organizer Keith Pickett, who started the event in the mid-1980s, was trying…
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