Alex Kline slumped down in a folding chair next to the court, his hair mussed and sweat staining his red T-shirt.
There was no air conditioning in the Pennington (New Jersey) High School gym. There wasn’t enough parking. Seventeen college-bound recruits played for a crowd thinned by the scheduling of the event — right in the middle of Memorial Day Weekend — and a 16-year-old Kline just wanted the day to end.
Looking back four years later, Kline sums up the first Mary Kline Classic in one word:
Deflating.
“I get a complaint the next day from a father.