Hortatio Williams Freedom Classic brings top teams, talent to Detroit area on Saturday – MLive.com

The Horatio Williams Classic will be held at Ferndale High School on Saturday and will feature many great matchups between top teams in Michigan.

The final game of the seven-game invitational will feature MLive's top-ranked Orchard Lake St. Mary's taking on No. 11 Flint Beecher (7-1). The game is set to feature three players on MLive's Mr. Basketball watch list of all are healthy.

St. Mary's Mr. Basketball candidate, Lorne Bowman, is a frontrunner for the award and will head to Wisconsin next year. He has been scoring 20-plus per night with ease as of late.

Beecher has Jalen Terry, who has battled injuries this season but has been a difference maker in the games he's played in. It's not clear if he will be ready to play in time for Saturday but he will be announcing his college choice on Friday. Terry used to be committed to Michigan State.

If Terry is not ready to go, Beecher will turn to Earnest Sanders to get the job done. Hes had many huge performances so far this season and likes to soar toward the basket. He will play football at Kentucky next year.

Muskegon's talented squad, ranked No. 4, will be making the trip across Michigan to square of against host Ferndale (3-4, tied for No. 25) in the sixth game. The Big Reds (4-1) still don't have a ton of game experience this season but offer Mr. Basketball hopeful Jarvis Walker in the lineup, a talented guard heading to Purdue Fort Wayne.

In the fifth game, No. 3 Clarkston (6-1) will bring its 7-foot-1 Mr. Basketball hopefull in Northwestern signee Matt Nicholson. A double-double machine, Nicholson is surrounded by talented sophomores Keegan Wasilk and Fletcher Loyer, the latter of which is the younger brother of Michigan State guard Foster Loyer. The Wolves will face No. 16 Detroit Martin Luther King (8-2). Last year, Clarkston beat King at the Horatio Williams classic, 53-39.

Also, No. 9 River Rouge (7-1) will take on North Farmington (7-2) while No. 24 Detroit Edison (4-2) takes on No. 25 Macomb Dakota (6-2). Dakota has a Mr. Basketball hopeful as well in Ryan Rollins, who recently had a 39-point, 11-rebound game.

Detroit Douglass, ranked No. 10, features senior Pierre Brooks Jr., who is being heavily recruited by Michigan and Michigan State.

Here is the complete schedule for Saturday's Horatio Williams Freedom Classic. $10 will get you in for all games as long as you don't leave. Children under five years old are free.

11:30 a.m.: Detroit Western International vs. Dearborn Divine Child

1 p.m.: Detrit Edison Public School Academy vs. Macomb Dakota

2:30 p.m.: Detroit Frederick Douglass vs. Farmington

4 p.m.: River Rouge vs. North Farmington

5:30 p.m.: Detroit Martin Luther King vs. Clarkston

7 p.m.: Ferndale vs. Muskegon

8:30 p.m.: Orchard Lake St. Marys vs. Flint Beecher

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