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By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 13, 2001
BASKETBALL: Lakewood's Marcus Morrison, the Pinellas County co-Player of the Year, helped Fastbreak USA, an AAU-team based in Orlando, to a second-place finish in the Charlie Weber Invitational Friday through Sunday at Villanova.
About 100 teams competed in the 17-and-under division. Morrison's team, which features the nation's consensus No. 1-ranked junior, Amare Stoudemire of Orlando, won six consecutive games before getting upended in the title game by Sonny Hill II of Philadelphia 58-49.
"Marcus played very well," Fastbreak general manager Matt Ramker said. "He opened a lot of eyes of recruiters."