LOS ANGELES – Many of the elite boys’ basketball programs in Southern California are set to participate in the third Ryse-Up Fall Classic that will get underway Saturday at Fairfax High, and then conclude Sunday at Culver City High.
Eleven games over the two days are scheduled to be played to honor the memory of the late basketball standout, Ryse Williams, and to raise funds for the charitable foundation formed in his name.
Williams, a two-time, all-Southern Section selection who had planned attend and play basketball for Loyola Marymount University, died in late spring of 2017 – just a day before his scheduled Redondo High School graduation ceremony – of Renal Medullary Carcinoma (RMC), a rare form of cancer.
Daily admission is $10. Fairfax is located at 7850 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, Culver City at 4401 Elenda State in Culver City.
Fairfax is now coached by Reggie Morris, Jr., who was Williams’ coach for his first three years at Redondo and then recruited him for LMU when his was on that school’s coaching staff. Roy Walker is the Culver City coach and was an assistant at Redondo when Williams played there.
The Ryse-Up schedule:
Saturday at Fairfax
12:10 p.m., Long Beach Poly vs. Beverly Hills; 1:10, Mayfair vs. St. Anthony; 2:20, Fairfax vs. Chaminade; 3:30, Lynwood vs. Bishop Montgomery; 4:45, Washington Prep vs. Redondo.
Sunday at Culver City
11:10 a.m., Brentwood vs. Birmingham; 12:20 p.m., Windward vs. Leuzinger; 1:30, Colony vs. St. Bernard; 2:45, Westchester vs. Harvard-Westlake; 4, Fairfax vs. Alemany; 5:15, Culver City vs. Loyola.
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