Boys Basketball: Potomac Falls Nearly Perfect in Summer Play

(July 21, 2010) - Expectations are surely high for a Potomac Falls High School boys basketball team that returns all starters from last year's team that captured the VHSL Division 4 state title and the Panthers have lived up to the hype in summer play.

Potomac Falls finished a perfect 11-0 campaign in the Jim McKay Summer League at Flint Hill with 72-55 win over AAA Chantilly in the finals. Potomac Falls coach Jeff Hawes was only able to watch one game during the summer league season but said it was his team's depth that help them go unbeaten with Jeff Biber -- father of former Panther standout Ben Biber -- coaching the team. And there was more former Panther help in the semifinals and finals as another ex-PFalls player, Darien Almond, stepped in for Biber to lead the team.

The Panthers were almost unbeaten at camp at the Paul Webb All-Star Basketball Camp at Randolph-Macon, going 10-1. After beating South County on a buzzer beater by -- who else! -- Lukas Mihailovich, the Panthers then fell to South County, and its starting front line of 6-foot-6 and taller, in the finals.

Speaking of 6-foot-6, Potomac Falls rising junior Greg Graves continues to impress. Graves, who really had his coming out party at the state finals, attended an elite camp at James Madison recently and Hawes said Graves did very well. If Graves ends up an inch or two taller, expect him to be at the top of some NCAA Division I recruiting lists.

Rising senior Mihailovich -- the top player in the state for AA last season --  has also been getting plenty of interest with schools such as Wofford, St. Francis (PA), Colgate, Harvard and Princeton all keeping the talented guard on their radars.

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