Basketball tourney packs park courts

The basketball courts at Pinehurst Park were awash in action and testosterone Friday, packed with young men playing basketball, or bantering as they hung out along the fence waiting for their next turn to play.

For three hours, the courts were constantly in motion, with 3-on-3 games going on at both ends, 10 minutes each or the first team to get to 21 points in the first-ever Cloquet Fourth of July 3-on-3 basketball tournament, held a day later due to heavy rains the day before.

Cloquet High School alumnus Paul Cameron organized the free tournament. A former CHS basketball player, Cameron cons...