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Healthy Parker fuels Simeon rout

12/28/2012, 12:05am CST
By Michael O’Brien mobrien@suntimes.com

Looking healthy for the first time this season, Duke recruit Jabari Parker scored 20 points and handed out five assists to lead No. 2 Simeon to a 77-20 win over East Moline in a first-round Pontiac Holiday Tournament game on Thursday.


Simeon's Jabari Parker dominates over United Township. | Patrick Gleason~For Sun-Times Media

All the tournament passes are sold out for the Pontiac Holiday Tournament, and the stands are packed to the rafters with walk-up buyers.

Most of the crowd was there to see Sports Illustrated cover subject Jabari Parker, and the Simeon senior lived up to billing in a first-round game on Thursday.

The Duke recruit scored 20 points and handed out five assists. He looked healthy for the first time this season, leading the Wolverines to a 77-20 win over East Moline.

“For the first time I felt like I helped the team out,” Parker said. “The other games I felt like I was just out there.”

Kendrick Nunn scored 13, and Russell Woods added 12 for the Wolverines (6-1).

“[Parker started looking healthier] a couple days ago,” Simeon coach Robert Smith said. “You can look at him and tell he has lost the weight. That’s huge.’’

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