REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – Championship quarterfinals pitting teams ranked in Southern California’s BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25 are on tap Tuesday in the second day of the 65th Dijon Thompson Pacific Shores Tournament.
Monday’s night’s first-round games set up some terrific matchups in Redondo Union’s main gymnasium, with No. 13 Eastvale Roosevelt facing No. 14 Oak Park at 3:30, followed by No. 9 Long Beach Poly and No. 22 L.A. Westchester at 5; No. 19 Redondo and Harbor City Narbonne (among the “Next 10” in the first set of ratings) at 6:30 and No. 10 Santa Margarita and No. 11 Lake Balboa Birmingham.
In consolation quarterfinals scheduled for Tuesday in the Redondo Union auxiliary gymnasium, Lakewood Mayfair takes on Lynwood at 3, followed by Compton Dominguez vs. Inglewood (4:30), Studio City Harvard-Westlake and Cerritos Gahr (6) and Palos Verdes Peninsula and Temecula Rancho Christian (7:30).
Top seed Santa Margarita (75-44 over Peninsula), Birmingham (73-54 over Rancho Christian), Narbonne (66-53 over Harvard-Westlake), Poly (69-57 over Mayfair), Westchester (66-50 over Lynwood), Oak Park (63-51 over Dominguez) and Roosevelt (65-53 over Inglewood) each won by double-figure margins while Redondo had to hold off a late rally by Gahr to prevail, 66-59, on Monday.
Among the strong performances turned Monday were those by Cal State Fullerton-bound Matt Mitchell (Roosevelt) with 34 points; future Loyola Marymount guard Ryse Williams (19 points) of Redondo; Harold Moore (Westchester), with 20 points; and 6-4 Devante Doutrive of Birmingham, with 27 points.
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