For leading Penn Wood High to a runner-up finish in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class AAAA playoffs, potential Terps small forward target Aaron Brown has been named to the Philadelphia Inquirer's All-Southeastern Pa. first team
Arguably the area's most improved player, Brown, an athletic and high-leaping swingman, averaged 19.1 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.5 steals for the Del-Val League and District 1 champions. He shot 58 percent from the field and 44 percent from beyond the arc. Scholarship offers, with more to follow, have come from Drexel, Rice, St. Joseph's and Temple.• Point Pleasant Beach (N.J.) junior forward Jarelle Reischel was named the Shore Player of the Year by NJ.com.
Reischel, who averaged 22.7 points, 13 rebounds, two steals and two assists per contest, transferred into the Ocean County school from Germany before his sophomore season. Besides Rutgers and St. John's, other suitors include Penn State, Temple, Maryland, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Providence and ``the entire Atlantic 10," according to [his] coach.
• North Star Basketball's Alex Schwartz recently tracked down a list of schools for Desmond Hubert, a Maryland junior center target from New Egypt (N.J.).
North Carolina, Wake Forest, UConn, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Pitt, Georgetown, Villanova, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Penn State, and Texas are the schools on the big man's list. He claims offers from over half of them, in Virginia Tech, Virginia, Penn State, Pitt, Wake Forest, Villanova, and UConn.