MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Mylan Park is ready to welcome thirteen high school basketball teams from across three states as part of the PAC 5 Furniture Morgantown Shootout. The competition will take place on Saturday, June 17, and will use all four courts at the J.W. Ruby Community Center at Mylan Park. It will include the boys and girls teams for both Morgantown High School and University High School.
“We’re going to have West Virginia teams and Pennsylvania teams competing against each other, so you’re going to see some pretty serious, high-level high school basketball competition,” said Visit Mountaineer Country President and CEO Susan Riddle.
The round-robin tournament will feature MHS and UHS as they take on fellow West Virginia high schools Martinsburg, Williamstown, Elkins, Magnolia, Musselman, Brooke, Beckley, and Fairmont Senior. Riddle also mentioned teams from Maryland will be represented along with Pennsylvania teams who are traveling to the Mountain State that will be a part of the action. Tip-off is scheduled for noon on June 17, with non-stop basketball action continuing into the evening.
“They’re going to go back-to-back, head-to-head; these teams are coming from Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia; they’re all over the place,” said Riddle.
A featured girls round-robin tournament is a new addition to the PAC 5 Furniture Shootout. Both the girls basketball teams for Morgantown High and University High will play Saturday afternoon, and they will compete against teams from West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Both the boys and girls round robins will run concurrently with each other throughout the afternoon.
“So you’re going to see some pretty serious, high-level high school basketball competition, and we know that there’s going to be some college coaches coming to see some of these competitors,” said Riddle.
Riddle expects a decent crowd to be at Mylan Park for the over seven hours of basketball expected to take over the J.W. Ruby Community Center. At the inaugural Pac 5 Furniture Morgantown Shootout last year, over seven hours of basketball were played over the course of a single day with college scouts and hundreds of fans in attendance. Much of the same is expected this Saturday, with Mylan Park ready to host an action-packed day for high school basketball.
“It’s a facility that is really well suited for this type of round-robin kind of competition,” said Riddle. “Where there’ll be multiple teams, there’ll be multiple games going on at once,” she said.