The play was intense and the community showed up for North Fork Kid Connect’s annual Greenport Summer Basketball Tournament at the Third Street basketball court on Saturday, where local kids got a chance to show off their skills and participate in friendly competition with students from throughout the East End.
This is the fifth season North Fork Kid Connect is running the contest, which has its roots in a neighborhood basketball tournament on the court that dates back to the 1990s. North Fork Kid Connect and Aldrich Sports League also run youth basketball clinics on the court throughout the month of July.
Below: the MVPs from the final competition among the older kids who participated in the afternoon-long event: Jorden Bennett of Westhampton Beach (red team), who will be playing basketball his freshman year this coming season at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, and Markus Kruszeski of Greenport (green team), a veteran of the competition who is going into 10th Grade at Greenport High School this fall.
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