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About a week before basketball tryouts, Bartlett’s Brandon Pelz still wasn’t sure if he was going to come out for the team. He had concentrated on baseball, earning a scholarship to Valparaiso.

He sat out his junior year for the Hawks after playing basketball as a sophomore, but the lure of one more go-around with his buddies became too hard for him to pass up.

“I was messing around, sitting in class, and I was like, ‘I might play,'” Pelz said of coming back out for basketball. “My friend was like, ‘Just do it. Let’s go have fun and see what we can do.’

“I talked to the coaches and they were like, ‘We’d love to have you back.’ So I was like, ‘Perfect.'”

The reunion has worked out pretty well for all involved so far. Pelz filled the stat s

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