NORWALK, Ca. – Seven teams in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 25 are among the 14 squads participating in the Rolling Hills Prep/Scorebook Live State Preview Saturday at Cerritos Community College.
The highest-rated of those seven squads is No. 6 Santa Ana Mater Dei, which will take on No. 23 Camarillo, which is led by UCLA-bound Jaime Jaquez Jr. (PICTURED)
The Monarchs (21-1), who travel to Bellflower to play No. 13 St. John Bosco in a key Trinity League game Friday night, start three sophomores and two juniors.
Other games at the event involving two ranked squads are No. 15 Riverside Notre Dame vs. No. 21 Brentwood (12:30 p.m.,) and No. 10 Rancho Verde vs. No. 17 Long Beach Poly (2).
The outcome of each of those two games could impact the makeup and seeding of the CIF Southern Section Open Division’s eight-team playoff field that will be unveiled on Feb. 3.
Because of the L.A. City Unified School Districts’ teachers’ union strike, replacements from the Southern Section had to be found for L.A. City powers Westchester (No. 2) and Fairfax (No. 5).
Ontario Colony is subbing for Westchester against No. 18 Harvard-Westlake while Santa Monica replaces Fairfax while taking on unbeaten Utah powerhouse Wasatch Academy (No. 7 nationally).
The complete seven-game schedule:
11 a.m., Woodland Hills El Camino Real vs. San Pedro Rolling Hills Prep
12:30 p.m., No. 15 Riverside Notre Dame vs. No. 21 Los Angeles Brentwood School
2, No. 10 Moreno Valley Rancho Verde vs. No. 17 Long Beach Poly
3:30, Lakewood Mayfair vs. Playa del Rey St. Bernard
5, No. 6 Santa Ana Mater Dei vs. No. 23 Camarillo
7, No. 18 Studio City Harvard-Westlake vs. Ontario Colony
8:30, Santa Monica vs. Mt. Pleasant (UT) Wasatch Academy
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