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Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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The Temple basketball coaching staff will host over 30 high school programs from five different states this weekend in its annual high school team camp.

While many schools will play on both Friday night and Saturday, quite a few will only play one day or the other, making both days worth seeing with so many good teams and players scheduled to take the courts.

A few teams to keep an eye on:

--There’s a chance that Neumann-Goretti’s next top guard, Quade Green, makes his return to the court this weekend for the Saints after missing a few weeks with a foot/ankle injury. The 6-foot-tall combo guard has pulled in offers from high-majors like Michigan State, Syracuse, Xavier and more over the last few weeks, and they’re going to be joined by quite a few more by the time he makes his decision. Temple was his first offer, last September; expect the Owls’ coaching staff to be following N-G quite closely for Green and 2017 F/C Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree, another offeree.

--The defending PIAA Class AAAA champions, Roman Catholic, should debut their new-look lineup on Friday night. Rising seniors Tony Carr, Paul Newman and Penn State commit Nazeer Bostick will be joined this year by Lamar Stevens, Carr’s close friend and a teammate of the three already on Nike’s EYBL circuit with Team Final. Those four, plus rising junior D’Andre Vilmar, form a starting five that’s got a very good claim as the most talented in the state; now head coach Chris McNesby has to figure out who will fill in behind them besides returning sixth man Dakquan Davis, a rising junior guard.

--One of the top rising juniors in Delaware is Myles Cale, whose Appoquinimink HS plays a pair of games on Friday night against tough competition in Imhotep and the Friends’ School (Md.). Cale, a 6-foot-2 scoring guard, is the Under Armour Association’s top scorer on its 16U circuit at over 20 ppg, and he’s got the ability to get buckets from all three levels. He recently picked up his first Division I offer, from Delaware; expect plenty more mid-to-high major schools to follow by next summer.

--After missing most his team at last weekend’s St. Joseph’s camp due to various obligations, Germantown Academy head coach Jim Fenerty should have the majority of his players on hand this weekend. Rising juniors Evan-Eric Longino and Kyle McCloskey and senior point guard Devon Goodman form the heart of this team, but there are plenty of minutes left to be taken by the graduations of Tim Guers and Sam Lindgren. The three-time defending Inter-Ac champions have some work to do, and they need to start getting production from rising senior big man Joe Stinson.

--A few more: St. Joseph’s Prep looks like a much more athletic group this year despite the loss of SJU-bound wing Chris Clover; rising sophomore point guard Kyle Thompson might be the next Hawk star, but he’s got a strong supporting cast. ...Constitution lost a big senior class, including Minnesota-bound Ahmad Gilbert and FIU-bound Kimar Williams, so for the first time in three years head coach Rob Moore is going to have to do a lot of work over the summer to figure out what his lineup and rotation will look like in November. ...Friends’ School (Md.) features a top rising junior wing nationally in Myles Douglas, who’s 6-8 and super skilled. ...Reading has one of the best players to come out of the District 3 region in some time, rising junior Lonnie Walker, who’s got schools like Villanova, Indiana, Stanford, UCLA and Ohio State already offering scholarships. ...Cherokee (N.J.) will be interesting to watch, as new head coach Eric Cassidy makes his debut with the program just a few days after his hire became official.

Here’s the full schedule for the event:

Friday, June 26
5:30 PM
Court 1: Plymouth Whitemarsh (Pa.) vs. Neumann-Goretti (Pa.)
Court 2: Constitution (Pa.) vs. CJ Future Stars (Pa.)
Court 3: Academy New Church (Pa.) vs. Abington (Pa.)
Court 4: Cherry Hill East (N.J.) vs. St. Joseph’s Prep (Pa.)
Court 5: Germantown Academy (Pa.) vs. Radnor (Pa.)
Court 7: Council Rock North (Pa.) vs. Downingtown East (Pa.)

6:40 PM
Court 1: Ben Franklin (Pa.) vs. Point Pleasant (N.J.)
Court 2: Roman Catholic (Pa.) vs. Friends’ School (Md.)
Court 3: Appoquinimink (Del.) vs. Imhotep Charter (Pa.)
Court 4: Cherokee (N.J.) vs. Pennsauken (N.J.)
Court 5: Central (Pa.) vs. Malvern Prep (Pa.)
Court 7: St. Thomas More (Del.) vs. SCH Academy (Pa.)

7:50 PM
Court 1: CJ Future Stars vs. Germantown Academy
Court 2: Academy New Church vs. Saint Joseph’s Prep
Court 3: Neumann-Goretti vs. Albany Academy (N.Y.)
Court 4: Downingtown East vs. Haddon Township (N.J.)
Court 5: Constitution (Pa.) vs. Abington
Court 7: Council Rock North vs. Central

9:00 PM
Court 1: Roman Catholic vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh
Court 2: Malvern Prep vs. Imhotep Charter
Court 3: Point Pleasant vs. Radnor
Court 4: Cherry Hill East vs. SCH Academy
Court 5: Ben Franklin vs. Cherokee
Court 7: Appoquinimink vs. Friends’ School

Saturday, June 27
9:00 AM
Court 1: Bishop Kearney (N.Y.) vs. Friends’ School
Court 2: Albany Academy vs. St. Joseph’s Prep
Court 3: Roman Catholic vs. Germantown Academy
Court 4: Abington vs. Chester (Pa.)
Court 5: St. Thomas More vs. Ben Franklin
Court 7: Reading (Pa.) vs. Pennsauken

10:10 AM
Court 1: Haddon Township vs. Pennsbury (Pa.)
Court 2: SCH Academy vs. CJ Future Stars
Court 3: Penn Wood (Pa.) vs. TU All-Stars (Pa.)
Court 4: Imhotep Charter vs. Gilman (Md.)
Court 5: Council Rock North vs. Radnor
Court 7: Cherry Hill East vs. Abington

11:20 AM
Court 1: Chester vs. J.P. McCaskey (Pa.)
Court 2: Bishop McNamara (Md.) vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh
Court 3: Bishop Kearney vs. Reading (Pa.)
Court 4: Friends’ School vs. St. George’s Tech (Del.)
Court 5: Albany Academy vs. Roman Catholic
Court 6: St. Joseph’s Prep vs. Teaneck (N.J.)
Court 7: Malvern Prep vs. Downingtown East

12:30 PM
Court 1: Cherokee vs. Constitution
Court 2: Haddon Township vs. SCH Academy
Court 3: D.C. Thunder (D.C.) vs. TU All-Stars
Court 4: Pennsbury vs. St. Thomas More
Court 5: CJ Future Stars vs. Ben Franklin
Court 6: Penn Wood (Pa.) vs. Academy New Church
Court 7: Germantown Academy vs. Cherry Hill East

1:40 PM
Court 1: TU All-Stars vs. St. George’s Tech
Court 2: Abington vs. Malvern Prep
Court 3: J.P. McCaskey vs. Imhotep Charter
Court 4: Teaneck vs. Pennsauken
Court 5: Bishop Kearney vs. Bishop McNamara
Court 6: Downingtown West vs. Radnor
Court 7: Gilman vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh

2:50 PM
Court 1: D.C. Thunder vs. Chester
Court 2: St. Thomas More vs. Constitution
Court 3: Cherokee vs. Haddon Township

4:00 PM
Court 1: Academy New Church vs. Teaneck
Court 2: Gilman vs. J.P. McCaskey
Court 3: Pennsauken vs. Pennsbury
Court 4: Bishop McNamara vs. St. George’s Tech