Players to Watch: Best of the East Cup

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The first Best of Cup is happening this weekend at WSFS Bank Sportsplex in Chester, Pa. and Chase Fieldhouse in Wilmington, Del. It will feature a number of teams from across different national leagues in the region duking it out to see who is best. It will also feature games of ucommitted players that for college coaches and scouts should be one of the highlights of the event. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Players for the uncommitted games are coming from a variety of clubs in multiple states but I picked out 10 players from the clubs local to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley to highlight. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":["not_in_db"],"_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":161997,"_player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"field_62cca28ffa4e7","player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"[player_tooltip player_id='175069' first='Junior' last='Diouf']","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"field_62aba4c9ecf2f","player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"2026","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"field_62aba4ddecf30","player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"null","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"field_62aba4e8ecf31","player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"103","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"field_62aba4f0ecf32","player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"Phelps School","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"field_62aba4fdecf33","player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"Penn Fusion","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"field_62d20e723441a","player_evaluations_0_player_details":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details":"field_62aba4afecf2e","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eDiouf burst onto the local Eastern PA scene in the fall as a sophomore forward at Phelps who just got better as the season progressed. 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