April 30, 2010

BERKELEY - Four members of Cal's incoming class of men's basketball recruits - Gary Franklin, Richard Solomon, Allen Crabbe and Alex Rossi - have been invited to play in the second annual High School Academic All-America Classic on Saturday at the Felix Events Center on the campus of Azusa Pacific University.

Gary Franklin, Richard Solomon and Allen Crabbe will be members of the American All-Stars coached by Michael Lynch of Price High School, while Alex Rossi will be on the National All-Stars coached by De La Salle's Frank Alloco.

With the four players, Cal has more recruits in the game than any other university in the country.

The game will feature the finest basketball players in the country who have excelled in the classroom and have contributed to their communities. Student-athletes are selected based on the following criteria: grade point average, SAT/ACT scores, strength of high school curriculum, college selection, community service involvement, extracurricular activities and basketball ability. This year's participants have an average grade point average of 3.6.

In addition to the basketball game, the event will feature a formal banquet, a Los Angeles tour, a free camp for Special Olympics, Slam Dunk 3-Point Competition and a parent workshop.

Franklin, who played at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., is rated the No. 11 point guard and No. 65 overall recruit nationally by ESPN.com. Crabbe and Solomon were teammates at Los Angeles Price HS, with Crabbe ranked 57th overall and Solomon the No. 48 power forward. Crabbe was also named the Cal-Hi Sports California Player of the Year, the Gatorade State Player of the Year and a Parade All-American. Rossi, from New Trier HS in Winnetka, Ill., comes in as the country's No. 35 shooting guard by ESPN.com.

Cal's recruiting class was ranked No. 23 in the country by ESPN.com in November, which came before the Bears added guard Emerson Murray of Vancouver, British Columbia, to the roster Thursday.

The Academic All-America Classic, which will start at 7:30 p.m., is scheduled to be streamed live on FoxSports.com. For more information, click here to view the game's official website.

AMERICAN ALL-STARS
0    Tobi Oyediji        F     6-8   215   Texas A&M
3    Ahmad Starks        PG    5-9   160   Oregon State
4    Gary Franklin       PG    6-3   185   California   
12   Jason Pospichal     G     6-2   165   Barry
13   Richard Solomon     F/C   6-9   220   California   
15   Casey James         G     6-3   175   Pennsylvania
21   Keala King          G/W   6-6   200   Arizona State
22   Royce Woolridge     G     6-3   175   Kansas
23   Allen Crabbe        G/W   6-6   200   California   
24   Nate Bulluck        G/W   6-4   200   Middlebury
31   Jershon Cobb        G/W   6-5   180   Northwestern
32   Kyle Collinsworth   G/F   6-6   205   Brigham Young
32   Meyers Leonard      C     7-0   235   Illinois
33   Carson Desrosiers   C    6-11   230   Wake Forest
42   John McArthur       F/C   6-9   230   Santa Clara
Coaches: Michael Lynch (Price/Los Angeles, CA)
A.D. Burtschi (Putnam City High School/Oklahoma City ,OK)

NATIONAL ALL-STARS
0    Miles Cartwright    G     6-3   160   Pennsylvania
1    Mike Attanasio      PG    5-8   150   MIT
3    Anthony Brown       G     6-7   190   Stanford
5    Joshua Duckworth    G     6-2   220   Whitman
10   Kendall Williams    PG    6-4   195   New Mexico
11   Ben Brust           G     6-3   175   Iowa
14   Jason Morris        G/W   6-5   200   Georgia Tech
15   Alex Rossi          W     6-5   200   California   
21   Hector Harold       G/F   6-7   195   Pepperdine
30   Eric Swoope         W     6-6   220   Miami
32   Lenzelle Smith      G/W   6-4   215   Ohio State
33   Dwight Powell       C    6-10   225   Stanford
34   Josh Huestis        F     6-8   210   Stanford
43   James Johnson       C     6-9   230   Virginia
53   Alex Kirk           C    6-11   235   New Mexico
Coaches: Frank Alloco (De La Salle/Concord, CA)
John Carroll (Northfield Mount Herman /Mount Hermon, MA)