From the department of “stuff we’re ridiculously late in posing,” the Orange men’s basketball team won the Black Session of the Orange Summer Heat summer basketball tournament in June. And how they did it was dramatic. The Panthers fought back from a seven point deficit to defeat Chapel Hill 51-48 to take the title Malachi Poole scored the game-winning basket for Orange. He finished with ten points. Sophomore Xandell Pinnix, who played regularly as a freshman, led the Panthers with 16 points. Kai Wade, who just finished up his eighth grade year by the time the tournament started, had 13 points for Orange. Issac Seymour and Isaiah Seymour also factored in heavily for Orange over the course of the three-day tournament. The championship gives Orange some renewed enthusiasm for a new season that will start in November with plenty of new faces to replace departed graduates Jerec Thompson, J.J. Thompson, Joshua Jackson and Hunter Burch. 

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