Southland weekend prep schedule loaded

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LOS ANGELES – Highlighting the prep hoops action in Southern California this weekend is the fourth annual “Fairfax State Preview” – hosted by, logically, Fairfax High on Saturday.

The action gets underway at 10:30 a.m., with La Canada taking on El Camino of Oceanside.

The rest of the schedule:

Noon, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame vs. San Diego Francis Park;

1:30 p.m., Santa Monica vs. Mission Hills Alemany;

3, North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake vs. San Diego Torrey Pines;

4:30, L.A. Price vs. L.A. Windward;

6:30, L.A. Fairfax vs. Gardena Serra

8, Orange Lutheran vs. L.A. Loyola

FRIDAY NIGHT’S best matchups have (in the Trinity League) Santa Ana Mater Dei at Bellflower St. John Bosco (7 p.m.) and (in the Moore League) Long Beach Poly at Compton (6:30 p.m.).

Fans – especially for the Trinity League clash – are urged to get into the gymnasiums as quickly as possible. There should be a large crowd at Compton and a humongous gathering at St. John Bosco.

I’m in Las Vegas for a wedding Saturday night so won’t be in attendance at any of the aforementioned contests.

For Twitter updates from the Mater Dei-SJB game and contests at Fairfax, follow Joel Francisco of ESPN.com at JoelFranESPN for the straight stuff!