Redondo Beach = Place to be for quality hoops this week

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA – Redondo Beach will be the hub of upper-scale boys’ high school basketball this week.

Monday thru Thursday, Redondo Union High and Coach Reggie Morris Jr.’s Sea Hawks’ program play host to the Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Showcase and Tournament.

And the Take Flight Challenge returns Friday and Saturday at RUHS, capping a week in which 19 of the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 30 teams, plus the top squads from the CIF San Diego Section (Francis Parker) and Arizona (Millennium of Goodyear), are set to participate.

Four girls’ games are also set on campus during the week as part of the events, with the Sea Hawks playing Valenica Tuesday at 5:15 in the auxiliary gymnasium and then facing La Canada Wednesday at 5 o’clock in the main gym.

The other two girls games will be played on Saturday in the aux gym: Leuzinger vs. La Canada (8:30 a.m.) and Crossroads vs. Lynwood (10 o’clock).

Jason Crowe Jr. and Inglewood play in one of the six games (four in the main gym) set for Day 1, taking on another 4-0 squad, Cypress – the most underrated Orange County-based team – 6:30 Monday night.

Crowe (pictured) has climbed to No. 2 among the all-time career scoring leaders in California, his 3,489 points trailing only Baylor freshman Tounde Yessoufou. He poured in 3,659 points in his four seasons at St. Joseph in Santa Maria.

There are plenty matchups during the six days at Redondo Union pitting potential – some of them likely – CIF Southern Section Open Division clubs, two of those involving the host Sea Hawks: vs. San Gabriel Academy (Wednesday night/6:30) and Crespi (Saturday night/6:45).

Another game in that category is Crespi vs. JSerra (Wednesday night/8 o’clock).

Week’s Schedule

  Monday: (main gym) 3:30 p.m., (tourney #1) St. Monica vs. L.A. University; 5, (tourney #4) Beverly Hills vs. Millikan; 6:30, Inglewood vs. Cypress; 8, Bishop Montgomery vs. San Gabriel Academy. (auxiliary gym) 4, (tourney #2) Palos Verdes vs. Oakwood; 5:30, Leuzinger vs. Chino.

Tuesday: (main gym) 3:30, Laguna Hills vs. Redondo Union; 5, Loyola vs. Santa Margarita; 6:30, Long Beach Poly vs. Windward; 8, Harvard-Westlake vs. La Mirada. (aux gym), Redondo Union girls vs. Valencia.

Wednesday: (main gym) 3:30, St. Anthony vs. Cypress; 5, Redondo Union girls vs. La Canada; 6:30, Redondo Union vs. San Gabriel Academy; 8, Crespi vs. JSerra. (aux gym) 3:30, (tourney #7) TBD; 5, (tourney #8) TBD; 6:30 (Tourney #6) TBD; 8, (tourney #5) TBD.

Thursday: (main gym) 2:30, Woodland Hills Taft vs. Rancho Christian; 4, Laguna Hills vs. St. Anthony; 5:30, (tourney championship) TBD; 7, Harvard-Westlake vs. L.B. Poly; 8:30, North Torrance vs. Heritage Christian. (aux gym) 3, (tourney 7^th place) TBD; 4:30, (tourney consolation final); 6, Crenshaw vs. Bishop Montgomery; 7:30, (tourney 3^rd) TBD.

Friday: (main gym) 5, Arcadia vs. Francis Parker; 6:30, Rolling Hills Prep vs. Las Vegas Democracy Prep; 8, JSerra vs. Millennium.

Saturday: (main gym) 9:30, St. Monica vs. Loyola; 11, Millikan vs. St. Pius X/St. Matthias; 12:30, St. Bernard vs. Eastvale Roosevelt; 2, Mayfair vs. Democracy Prep; 3:45, Crossroads vs. Corona Centennial; 5:15, Harvard-Westlake vs. Francis Parker; 6:45, Redondo Union vs. Crespi; 8:15, Millennium vs. Notre Dame. (aux gym) 8:30 a.m., Leuzinger girls vs. La Canada; 10, Crossroads girls vs. Lynwood; 11:30, L.B. Poly vs. Cypress; 1, Taft vs. Laguna Hills; 2:30, St. Anthony vs. Corona Santiago; 4, Bishop Montgomery vs. Riverside Poly; 5:30, Leuzinger vs. L.A. Washington Prep.