Key Trinity and Mission games set for this week

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Ten of the teams in the newest version of the BurlisonOnBasketball Southern California Top 25 are set to participate in Friday-Saturday, 28^th version of the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei High in Santa Ana.

Noteworthy among those are No.’s 1 Centennial, 2 Harvard-Westlake and 4 West Ranch.

Those teams are a combined 66-5 and already locked into the CIF Southern Section’s Open Division playoff field of eight, competition for which is set to begin on Feb. 10.

The first of the 16 Extravaganza games, St. Margaret’s vs. Palm Springs, is set to tip off Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock.

One of those games is the Friday night (7:30) girls’ contest between the host Monarchs and Esperanza.

Saturday’s 11-game schedule begins at 8 a.m. – rise and freakin’ shine, hoop heads – when Servite takes on Los Alamitos.

And the near-13 hours (barring any overtimes) of hoop-di-do close with the conclusion of the 9 p.m. game between defending California State Open champion Centennial and Liberty of Henderson in Nevada – led by the top junior point guard in the country, 6-foot-1 Dedan Thomas Jr.

  In other key games in this, the second-to-last week of regular season, No. 11 visits Bellflower to take on No. 5 St. John Bosco Wednesday night in the Trinity League.

The host Braves are 5-0 in league, including the first win by a league foe on Mater Dei’s home court in 25 years (Jan. 6, 67-64).

And, on Friday night, No. 8 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame plays “host” to No. 9 Sierra Canyon in UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion (Notre Dame is renting the facility for the game, reportedly in hopes of using it as a “fund-raiser”).

 

BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 25

(records thru games of Jan. 21)

1. Corona Centennial (CIF SS D-1) 20-3

Next Up: Tuesday, at Corona Santiago, 7:15 p.m.

2. Studio City Harvard-Westlake (D-1) 23-1

Next Up: Wednesday, vs. Chaminade, 7 p.m.

3. Torrance Bishop Montgomery (D-1) 23-1

Next Up: Friday, vs. St. Anthony, 7 p.m.

4. Valencia West Ranch (D-1) 23-1

Next Up: Friday, at Hart, 7 p.m.

5. Bellflower St. John Bosco (D-1) 21-3

Next Up: Wednesday, vs. No. 11 Mater Dei, 7 p.m.

6. Playa del Rey St. Bernard (D-1) 17-5

Next Up: Friday, at Serra, 7 p.m.

7. Etiwanda (D-1) 17-4

Next Up: Monday, at Chino Hills, 6:30 p.m.

8. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame (D-1) 16-8

Next Up: Wednesday, at Crespi, 7 p.m.

9. Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (D-1) 18-5

Next Up: Wednesday, vs. Alemany, 7 p.m.

10. Temecula Rancho Christian (D-2A) 13-9

Next Up: Tuesday, at Elsinore, 6 p.m.

11. Santa Ana Mater Dei (D-1) 18-5

Next Up: Wednesday, at No. 5 St. John Bosco, 7:30 p.m.

12. Manhattan Beach Mira Costa (D-1) 21-1

Next Up: Tuesday, vs. Peninsula, 7 p.m.

13. RSM Santa Margarita (D-1) 20-5

Next Up: Wednesday, at JSerra, 7 p.m.

14. La Mirada (D-2A) 19-6

Next Up: Friday, at Dominguez, 7 p.m.

15. Santa Ana Foothill (D-1) 22-2

Next Up: Tuesday, vs. Yorba Linda, 7 p.m.

16. Eastvale Roosevelt (D-1) 19-5

Next Up: Tuesday, at Riverside MLK, 7 p.m.

17. Los Angeles Windward (D-1) 18-6

Next Up: Tuesday, at Viewpoint, 7 p.m.

18. Sun Valley Village Christian (D-1) 20-4

Next Up: Tuesday, at Maranatha, 7 p.m.

19. Los Angeles Brentwood School (D-1) 20-3

Next Up: Monday, vs. Milken, 7 p.m.

20. Orange Lutheran (D-2AA) 15-7

Next Up: Wednesday, vs. Servite, 7 p.m.

21. La Verne Damien (D-1) 20-3

Next Up: Monday, vs. Upland, 6:30 p.m.

22. San Pedro Rolling Hills Prep (D-1) 19-5

Next Up: Wednesday, vs. Hawthorne Math & Science, 6 p.m.

23. Irvine Crean Lutheran (D-1) 16-6

Next Up: Tuesday, at Tustin, 6:15 p.m.

24. Anaheim Canyon (D-1) 19-5

Next Up: Tuesday, vs. Villa Park, 7 p.m.

25. Northridge Heritage Christian (D-1)             15-7

Next Up: Monday, at Whittier Christian, 7 p.m.