San Diego to host SoCal prep hoops powers

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   LAGUNA NIGUEL – Several of the CIF Southern Section’s top teams will venture into San Diego County this week for match-ups with some of that section’s top programs.

   *Rancho Christian,which remained No. 3 in this week’s BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25, is in San Diego Friday night to face No. 24 and host Mission Bay, the 2018 San Diego Section Open Division champion. In the first game of that “Mission Bay Beach Bash” double-header, No. 19 Orange Lutheran takes on La Jolla Country Day and its Princeton-bound guard, Ryan Langborg.

  *Saturday night,at Carlsbad High for the first-ever BSN Showcase, No. 11 Damien faces the same LJCD team at 5 o’clock, with Mission Bay taking on No. 10 Chino Hills and Onyeka Okongwu at 6:30 and No. 6 Bishop Montgomery challenged by No. 21 Torrey Pines to conclude things at 8.

   *No. 2 St. JohnBosco plays host to a tournament this week, with a field that also includes No. 17 Long Beach Poly.

   *Westminster is the place for a tournament that features No. 9 Mater Dei as well as No. 13 Notre Dame of Riverside, along with unbeaten Villa Park.

  *On Friday and Saturday at Santa Margarita, the No. 14 Eagles will play host to six games involving three programs (themselves, No. 15 Harvard-Westlake and 25 St.Augustine)) from Southern California and three more from the northern portion of the state.

  Here’s the updated BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25:

(With CIF section and record, thru games of Dec. 8)

1. Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (Southern Section/9-0)
2. Bellflower St. John Bosco (SS/8-0)
3. Temecula Rancho Christian (SS/6-0)
4. Fairfax (L.A. City/8-0)
5. Westchester(LAC/6-0)
6. Torrance Bishop Montgomery (SS/6-2)
7. Corona Centennial (SS/5-2)
8. Etiwanda (SS/9-1)
9. Santa Ana Mater Dei (SS/7-1)
10. Chino Hills (SS/3-1)
11. La Verne Damien (SS/8-1)
12. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame (SS/8-3)
13. Riverside Notre Dame (SS/4-3)
14. RSM Santa Margarita (SS/8-3)
15. Studio City Harvard-Westlake (SS/6-2)
16. Riverside Poly (SS/8-1)
17. Long Beach Poly (SS/3-1)
18. Moreno Valley Rancho Verde (SS/6-3)
19. Orange Lutheran (SS/7-2)
20. WoodlandHills Taft (LAC/5-0)
21. Torrey Pines (SD/9-0)
22. Washington Prep (LAC/7-4)
23. Camarillo (SS/8-2)
24. Mission Bay (San Diego/3-2)
25. San Diego St. Augustine (SD/6-1)