Inside Day 5 at the Beach Ball Classic

Scoring machine

• Though he had an off shooting night in Saturday’s championship game, smooth-shooting Lone Peak (Utah) junior guard Nick Emery set a new Beach Ball Classic record with 119 points in his four games. He also set the all-time free throw record with 43 made.

Michael Bibby’s 118 points in 1995 remains the tournament standard, and he did that in three games.

Number crunching

• St. Augustine senior guard Javan Felix, who is committed to Texas, dished out 11 assists in his team’s 63-57 win over Ballard in the fifth-place game, which ties for the fifth-most in Beach Ball Classic history. The record is 16 set by Clay County (Ky.) guard Kevin Jackson in 1987 and Deron Williams of The Colony (Texas) had 15 assists in 2001.

Highlight reel

• A fan was calling for it in the opener, and Bishop Gorman 6-6 guard Shabazz Muhammad obliged in his final game. Muhammad executed a 360-degree dunk on a breakaway in the second half for two of his 32 points in a win over Whitney Young, giving him 110 points in the four-game tournament. Muhammad gave his sneakers to a pair of young fans upon exiting the court.

Game of the day

• Because the championship and third-place games were relative blowouts, the fifth-place game between Ballard (Ky.) and St. Augustine (La.) was the best game of the day. St. Augustine opened up a 16-point lead in the first half before Ballard battled back to take a one-point lead with 2:28 to play, only to have the Purple Knights retake the lead in a 63-57 win.

By Alan Blondin, ablondin@thesunnews.com

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