Abington Basketball Players Selected For Philly All Star Labor Classic

ABINGTON, PA -- Abington High School's Joseph O'Brien and Elizabeth O'Leary have been selected to participate in the Philadelphia All Star Labor Classic basketball game at Philadelphia University.

In addition, Cheltenham High School's Trevonn Pitts was selected.

The Classic is a high school basketball fundraiser sponsored by Philadelphia’s Organized Labor, that has raised over $2 million to benefit Blossom Philadelphia and high school athletes. Proceeds from the ASLC will benefit Blossom Philadelphia supporting programs and services to help serve children and adults with a spectrum of diseases, organizers said.

Over the last 30 years, the ASLC has raised over $2 million and award more than 300 college scholarships to over 2,000 college-bound high school basketball players.

Players were nominated based on five criteria:

• Pl ayer is currently a high school senior and is projected to graduate with his or her senior class in June 2017.
• Player attends any high school in one of the following five counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Philadelphia.
• Player has played basketball during the current season.
• Player had demonstrated a willingness to cooperate with teammates and has a positive attitude about the sport, his/her talent and the competition.

Congratulations, athletes!

Editor's note: a previous version of this story including a misspelling of Mr. O'Brien's name, and did not include Elizabeth O'Leary. Patch regrets the errors.

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