PASADENA – Southern California’s two-best boys’ basket teams hook up Saturday night at Pasadena City College for the first of what could eventually be three meetings this season.
Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (24-2) and Temecula Rancho Christian (22-4), No.’s 1 and 2 in the CIF Southern Section Division I ratings, hook up at 7:30 in the last contest of a triple-header.
The winner of the clash will be the No. 1 seed and the loser No. 2 when the Southern Section unveils its eight-team Open Division playoff field Sunday at noon (PT).
The teams could meet again in the February 23 Section title game (at Cal Baptist in Riverside) and for a third time during the State Southern Regional final on March 2 at a site to be determined.
Santa Clarita Christian faces Chula Vista Mater Dei at 4:30 and Ontario Colony takes on Valencia at 6 in the first two games played Saturday at PCC.
Sierra Canyon and Rancho Christian met in the first round of the 2018 Southern Section Open playoffs, with Sierra Canyon prevailing, 83-79, in Temecula.
Both programs are loaded with future college players, notably in brothers Isaiah (a senior who has signed with USC) and Evan (pictured/the No. 1 junior in the country) Mobley of Rancho Christian, as well seniors Cassius Stanley, K.J. Martin and Scotty Pippen Jr. (a point guard committed to Vanderbilt) of Sierra Canyon,
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