LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The bulk of California’s very best high school players from the Classes of 2016 and 2017 will be in the same building on the same Sunday afternoon this month.
The first-ever Prep2Prep California All-Star Basketball Game will be played on Aug. 30 at Las Positas College in the northern California city of Livermore.
Among the players committed to playing in the event, for the South squad, are UCLA-bound brothers Lonzo and Li’Angelo Ball from Chino Hills.
The 6-foot-5 Lonzo Ball helped lead the Team Rose squad to the championship of the adidas Global Nations Tournament at Cerritos College in Norwalk Monday night.
He’s California’s top-ranked prospect in the Class of 2016 and is one of the very best point guards in the country.
Li’Angelo will play for the South’s 2017 squad.
The 2016 game is scheduled to tip off at 1:30 p.m., with the 2017 clash to follow at approximately 3:30.
The games will be live-streamed on the wwwprep2prep.com web site. Admission prices will be released later.
Coaching the Northern teams will be Lou Richie of State Open Division champion Oakland Bishop O’Dowd (2016) and Brian Botteen of State D-I champion San Ramon Valley (2017).
Coaches leading the Southern squads are Ty Nichols of State D-5 champion Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (2016) and Reggie Morris Jr. of Redondo Beach Redondo Union (2017).
Sierra Canyon is represented by the most players (four) in the event while Concord De La Salle, Sacramento, Corona Centennial, Redondo Union, Torrance Bishop Montgomery, San Francisco Sacred Heart Cathedral, Manteca, San Jose Archbishop Mitty and El Cajon Foothills Christian are each scheduled to be represented by two players.
The complete rosters:
NorCal
2016
Jordan Ford (6-0/Folsom)
Oscar Frayer (6-6/Hayward Moreau Catholic)
Robinson Idehen (6-8/Modesto Christian)
Ben Kone (6-8/San Jose Archbishop Mitty)
Donovan Mitchell (6-7/Clovis Buchannan)
Nikhil Peters (6-5/Concord De La Salle)
Sayeed Pridgett (6-4/El Cerrito)
Jordan Ratinho (6-4/Concord De La Salle)
Colin Slater (6-0/Reedley Immanuel)
Christian Terrell (6-4/Sacramento)
Kenneth Wooten (6-9/Manteca)
Solomon Young (6-7/Sacramento)
2017
Angelo Athens (6-1/San Jose Bellarmine)
Austin Alexander (6-5/Sacramento Capital Christian)
Ramzi Carter (6-6/San Francisco Sacred Heart)
Tim Falls (6-2/Dublin)
Alfred Hollins (6-5/San Francisco Sacred Heart)
Jeremy Lillis (6-8/Placer)
Damari Milstead (6-2/Hayward Moreau Catholic)
Sebastian Much (6-6/San Jose Bishop Mitty)
Darrin Person (6-6/Reedley Immanuel)
Jordan Roberts (6-7/Bakersfield Ridgeview)
Jade Smith (6-2/Alameda St. Joseph-Notre Dame)
Tydus Verhoeven (6-7/Manteca)
SoCal
2016
Milan Acquaah (6-1/Los Angeles Cathedral)
Mubashar Ali (6-11/Playa Del Rey St. Bernard)
Ike Anigbogu (6-9/Corona Centennial)
Lonzo Ball (6-5/Chino Hills)
Keith Fisher (6-7/Los Angeles Westchester)
Leland Green (6-2/Redondo Beach Redondo Union)
Vance Jackson (6-8/Santa Ana Mater Dei)
T.J. Leaf (6-9/El Cajon Foothills Christian)
De’Anthony Melton (6-2/Encino Crespi)
Devearl Ramsey (5-11/Chatsworth Sierra Canyon)
Vittorio Reynoso-Avila (6-4/La Mirada)
Henry Welsh (6-9/Los Angeles Loyola)
2017
DeAndre Ayton (6-11/San Diego Balboa City School)
LiAngelo Ball (6-5/Chino Hills)
Jaylen Hands (6-3/El Cajon Foothills Christian)
Jalen Hill (6-8/Corona Centennial)
Ira Lee (6-8/Chatsworth Sierra Canyon)
Remy Martin (5-11/Chatsworth Sierra Canyon)
Brandon McCoy (6-11/San Diego Morse)
Cody Riley (6-8/Chatsworth Sierra Canyon)
Ernie Sears (6-4/Mission Hills Alemany)
Jordan Schakel (6-5/Torrance Bishop Montgomery)
Ethan Thompson (6-4/Torrance Bishop Montgomery)
Ryse Williams (6-2/Redondo Beach Redondo Union)
Hollins and Carter are from Sacred Heart Cathedral in SF, not Sacred Heart. And we’re very proud of them both!
Go Irish!