Redondo Beach is the place to be for the best in boys high school basketball this week.
Redondo Union High will play host to the 73rd Ryse Williams/PAC Shores, Monday thru Thursday, with the Take Flight Challenge/Powered by Morgan Stanley scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
Fourteen of the Top 30 members of the BurlisonOnBasketball Preseason Top 70 SoCal teams – including No.’s 2 Harvard-Westlake, 3 Roosevelt, 7 Redondo, 8 JSerra and 10 Sierra Canyon – are set to participate in one or both events.
Coming from outside of Southern California for the Friday and Saturday games are Tounde Yessoufou-led Santa Maria St. Joseph, as well as Idaho State champion Owyhee; Highland and Millennium of Arizona; Dallas Kimball; and Charlotte (NC) Performance Institute.
The host Sea Hawks (3-0) play Oak Park (0-7) at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon; 7-0 Chaminade (led by 6-foot-4 senior Jonas Thurman, averaging 25 ppg) at 5:30 Thursday and Corona Centennial – No. 15 in the Top 70 – Saturday at 7 o’clock.
Harvard-Westlake (4-0) opens with San Gabriel Academy on Tuesday (6:30) and takes on Bishop Montgomery Thursday (7), before closing its week against Owyhee on Saturday (5:30).
JSerra plays Millennium Friday night at 8:30, while Sierra Canyon faces Millennium at 8:30 in Saturday night’s finale.
The Six Days of Hoops at RUHS begins Monday at 3:30 in the afternoon (Lynwood vs. West Covina).
In some of the compelling matchups not played at RUHS this week:
*No. 12 Los Alamitos is at No. 4 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks Wednesday (6 o’clock) and at home to Centennial Friday night (7).
*And top-ranked and 5-zip St. John Bosco is at home to No. 11 St. Pius X/St. Matthias Friday night ( 7).
Top Performances from Week II (Nov. 25-30)
(Based strictly on the games I watched in person)
Most Outstanding Player
*Jake Hall/Carlsbad
12 more who were also very good!
Seniors
*Alec Blair/Concord De La Salle
*Anthony Moore/Stockton Lincoln
*Elliot Perryman/Concord Clayton Valley
*Gavin Sykes/Modesto Christian (NorCal Tip-Off high 38 points/signed with LBSU)
*Peyton White/Crespi
Juniors
*Cameron Anderson/Dublin
*Kaiden Bailey/Santa Margarita
*Demarco Hunter/Santa Cruz
*Zach Khatib/Redondo Union (six 3s Saturday)
*Brayden Kyman/Santa Margarita
*Raymond Whitley/San Francisco St. Ignatius
Sophomores
*Hunter Caplan/Crean Lutheran
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