GILBERT — Several of the area's best senior basketball players will compete in the 11th Annual Twin Rivers Basketball Classic on Friday at the Larry Joe Harless Community Center in Gilbert.

The girls game tips off at 6:15 p.m. and the boys game is slated to start at 8:15 p.m.

Teams consist of graduating seniors from Mingo, Logan, McDowell, Wyoming, Wayne and Lincoln Counties. Boys and girls players will either be on the Blue team or the Grey team.

The Blue boys teams will include Logan's Jonathan Bevins and Brett Sorrell; Tug Valley's Zach Preece, Derek Hayes and Dustin Maynard; Chapmanville Regional High School's Andrew Ellis and Brent Tomblin; Williamson's Alex Anderson, Jace Branch and Mike Davidson; Matewan's Brandon Burgraff, Josh Sammons, Matt Kennedy and Colton Copley.

The Blue girls team will include Charmaine O'Neal, Leonnah Browning and Rojet Lowe of Logan; Keisha Ratcliff, Caressa Sartin and Kathrine Endicott of Tug Valley; Tiffini Hale, Poppy Ramey and Cortney Willis of Chapmanville Regional; Sharell Barnes and Erica Hatfield of Williamson and Kaci Slone, Krista Edwards and Charity Ferguson of Burch.

The Grey boys team will include Man's Corey Spence; Lincoln County's Jacob Lucas, Jacob Ashworth and Doug Jeffers; Delbarton Regional Christian School's Eric Roberts and Anthony Brock; Westside's Eric Bailey, Adam Cline and Danny Hicks; Big Creek's Roger Hale; Mount View's James Riley; Iaeger's Jarred Roberts and Phillip Hopkins; and Wayne's Neil Dillon, Brandon Southerland and Corey Harshberger.

The Grey girls team will include Man's Mallory Keffer; Gilbert's Megan Thomas, Britnee Gibson and Kirsten Brown; Lincoln County's Kaygen Hutchison; Wyoming East's Jodi Canada; Iaeger's Natasha Collins and Danelle Owens, Westside's Ashley Stepp and Kala Cline; and Wayne's Pasha Adkins, Alex Amorim and Stacey Hooks.

Players from Tolsia will be added later in the week, a press release from Twin Rivers Classic Director Danny Browning said.

There will also be 3-point shootouts at halftime of each game.

Coaching the Blue boys will be Matewan's Phillip Mitchell and Williamson's Curt Fletcher.

This season, Mitchell guided the Tigers to their first state tournament berth in 14 years. Fletcher is the longtime coach of the Wolfpack and his team was the last public school to win a Class A state basketball championship in 2001.

Coaching the Blue girls will be rookie Burch High basketball coach Melvin Cunningham and Williamson's Robin Porter.

Coaching the Grey boys team will be Kenny Brown of Mount View and Phillip Dunford of Big Creek. Coaching the Grey girls team will be Don Taylor and Mark Dean of Gilbert and Sam Cohenhour of Wayne.