Young, Eagles soar at Big All-City…
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again. The All-Star games are some of the more enjoyable moments with the high school kids.
Everyone is so laid back and just having a good time. You get to see their real personalities come through.
It was more of the same Thursday for the Big All-City basketball games at Putnam West.
For the record, the East team dominated both games. Wasn’t shocked that a Del City, Norman, Midwest City-led girls team would reign supreme. But a little shocked that a boys West team with Donte’ Foster (Guthrie), Kyle Hardrick (Putnam City), Fayzon Richey (El Reno) as well as other studs took it on the chin.
Anyway, the highlight of the night was the skills competition. Or in other words: The Del City awards banquet.
It started during halftime of the girls game with a 3-point shooting contest that pitted Del City’s Bobbie Marshall vs. Putnam North’s Shilalie Jones.
I’ve seen Marshall play a couple of times, so “the smart money” was on her.
The contest was whoever could make the most 3s in one minute. Marshall got on a roll early and drained about six in a row before settling for 10.
Jones was comfortable in the initial spot for the shots and never got on track.
Winner: Marshall, DC.
The boys was a real battle between Ismail Calhoun of DC and Keaton Callins of Guthrie.
Calhoun also got on a little roll himself and ended up making 14 attempts. What was impressive for Calhoun was his quick release.
Callins wasn’t too far off at 13. Nobody knew what the score was until after it was over, so there wasn’t that much drama in those final shots.
Winner: Calhoun, DC.
And then during halftime was the slam dunk contest.
El Reno’s Fayzon Richey got it started off right with a nice one-handed dunk that was more about where he took from than anything else.
Guthrie’s Donte’ Foster had Callins sit on the floor and throw it up to him for a nice finish.
Putnam North’s Joy Williamson had some nice finishes as well.
But the star was Del City’s Toni Young. She looked a little gassed, but the crowd got her into it.
Her first dunk I felt was her best. But her final dunk was something she’s never done before: an alley-oop.
The crowd, the judges loved it, making her the easy winner.
So in a clean sweep of all the skills competitions and in the games themselves, it was a good night for Del City.
Here is video of Young and her night of dunks taken by photographer Sarah Phipps.
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