Reedley High hosts 2nd annual Gonzalo Carrasco Memorial basketball tournament

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Reedley High School played big to the 2nd Annual Gonzalo Carrasco Memorial hoops tourney connected Saturday.

The tourney honors the representation of the erstwhile Reedley High hoops subordinate and Selma constabulary serviceman who was changeable and killed successful the enactment of work backmost successful January of 2023.

Pirates' Athletic Director Darren Minami says the tourney is simply a tribute to 1 of their community's finest.

"Hearing the tragic quality a fewer years ago, it conscionable felt similar the close happening to do," Minami said.

"We conscionable anticipation for it to proceed to turn arsenic we grant Gonzalo's life."

Before his clip arsenic diversion director, Minami was Carrasco's caput hoops manager with the Reedley boys hoops team.

Gonzalo's erstwhile teammate and lawsuit organizer, Frankie Bustamante, shared his thoughts connected different tourney successful his champion friend's honor.

"We privation to grant him successful the champion mode imaginable and what amended mode to bash that with the athletics we fell successful emotion with," Bustamante said.

In the tournament's title game, Fresno High would decision Golden West 52-50 to assertion the tournament's 2nd yearly trophy.

Minami tells Action News that portion of the tourney proceeds volition spell to the Reedley Police Department's Explorer Program, which helps students looking to marque a vocation successful instrumentality enforcement.

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