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Milton's Mo Lewis scored a game-high 25 points, leading his team to a 67-39 win over Bishop Verot in the opening game of the 41st City of Palms Classic on Wednesday. See seven more photos below the story.
Duke commit
Grayson Allen scored 31 points and added seven rebounds as No. 20
Providence (Jacksonville, Fla.) defeated previously nationally-ranked
St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.) 75-70 in the premier game of the City of Palms Classic Wednesday.
Allen's teammate
Christian Terrell added 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists, offsetting a big performance from Bosco freshman
Billy Preston, who had 21 points and 12 rebounds. Preston's team, highly-regarded
Daniel Hamilton, contributed 15 points and 10 assists for the Braves, who slipped to 3-3.
Providence (7-1) also had a big games from David Sharpe (16 points) and Wyatt Walker (10 points, six rebounds), while Bosco got 14 points from
Vance Jackson and
Tyler Dorsey, added 11 points, six rebounds and three steals.
"We had breakdowns," Bosco coach Derrick Taylor told
naplenews.com. "When you play big games you can't allow teams to shoot 51 percent."
Allen told the newspaper: "Me scoring 31 here doesn't carry over to tomorrow night's game."
In other first-round play,
Milton (Ga.) defeated
Bishop Verot (Fort Myers, Fla.) 67-39,
Sagemont (Weston, Fla.) knocked off
IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) 64-50,
Neumann-Goretti (Philadelphia, Pa.) breezed past
Denver East (Denver, Colo.) 90-61 and
Greenforest (Decatur, Ga.) upended
Oak Ridge (Orlando, Fla.) 61-55.
Other top scorers: Antonio Blakeney (Oak Ridge) 32,
Mo Lewis IV (Milton) 25,
John Ogwuche (Greenforest) 25,
Ricky Doyle (Bishop Verot) 22,
Ja'Quan Newton (Neumann) 21,
Dwayne Bacon (IMG) 20.
Other top rebounders: Marquel Willis (Oak Ridge) 12,
Alex Owens (Oak Ridge) 11.
See schedule of Thursday's games
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Antonio Blakeney, Oak Ridge
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John Ogwuche, Greenforest
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Ali Prince, Sagemont
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Tysean Powell, IMG
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Ja'Quan Newton, Neumann
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Dominique Collier, Denver East
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Ricky Doyle, Bishop Verot
