'It just felt like home:' Cros-Lex's Hunter Soper commits to LSSU for basketball
The senior led the Pioneers to a state quarterfinal appearance while finishing as the school's career leader in points, rebounds and blocks.
Croswell-Lexington boys basketball coach Lance Campbell says Hunter Soper is going to cost Lake Superior State University much more than scholarship money.
"I promise you he'll wear out their shooting machine, and they're going to need a new one," Campbell said over the phone Monday night. "Now that he's going to be on campus, he can get in the gym as often as possible. He's going to be the hardest-working kid on that team, and he'll be very successful at Lake State. He's going to do wonderful things at the collegiate level."
Soper, who Campbell considers the greatest player in school history, announced on Twitter on Friday night that he had verbally committed to the Lakers, about one week after the Division II Upper Peninsula school offered him a full basketball scholarship.
The senior had offers from several local NAIA schools and even late interest from Northwest Missouri State, winners of the 2019 and 2021 D-II national titles.