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Sierra Canyon, Fairfax top seeds in regional action

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – The State CIF Office released the boys’ basketball State Regional playoff brackets Sunday afternoon and put some nifty first-round games on the table for Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

   Action in Divisions I-V (with 16-team brackets) begins Tuesday and follows on Thursday, Saturday and March 5.

   The eight-team Open bracket begins Wednesday night, with semifinals on Saturday night and the final on March 5.

   All championship games will be hosted by the higher remaining seed in the matchup, instead of being played in large venues (such as the Pyramid on the Long Beach State campus).

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Sierra Canyon goes for CIF SS to State Open parlay

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RIVERSIDE – The Sierra Canyon High boys’ basketball team took a big step Saturday night on its road to a second consecutive CIF State Open Division championship.

  And the Trailblazers of Coach Andre Chevalier did it by win their first-ever Southern Section Open title.

  Led by the scoring of senior guards Cassius Stanley (a game-high 29 points on 10 of 15 from the field, including three 3s, while perfect on six free throws) and Scotty Pippen Jr. (12 points, eight in the fourth quarter), they led wire-to-wire while knocking off Bishop Montgomery, 64-57, at Cal Baptist University.

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Santa Margarita “D” the difference for CIF SS title

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RIVERSIDE – The Santa Margarita High boys’ basketball team finished in fourth place in the Trinity League on Jan. 30.

  On Feb. 23, the Eagles finished atop the CIF Southern Section’s Division 1 playoff bracket.

  The Eagles used a stunning final seven minutes – four of those in overtime – to knock off defending champion and top seed Chino Hills, 62-61, Saturday afternoon at Cal Baptist University.

  Santa Margarita’s Jake Kyman put things into overtime with a 3-pointer with nine seconds to go – his only points after intermission.

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Three “all-Classic at Damien matchups” set Saturday

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   Nine teams that played in the Dec. 26-29, 2018 Classic at Damien will be competing in boys’ basketball CIF sectional championships games Saturday.

  Six of those are playing in three of the Southern Sectional matchups:

  *Defending champion Chino Hills, led by 2018 State Player of the Year and USC-bound Onyeka Okongwu (PICTURED), takes on Santa Margarita at 3 o’clock at Cal Baptist for the Division I crown;

   *Rolling Hills Prep and Santa Clarita Christian (the 2018 champions in the 4A and 5AAA divisions, respectively, a year ago) hook up in the 3AA title game, at 4 o’clock, at Godinez High;

   *And, at 8:30, Colony and La Canada meet for the 2A championship.

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CVS earns first trip to championship game

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  MISSION VIEJO – A head coach in his second season heading the program, and a player in his third year in the United States, helped a school in its 45th year of existence earn its first ever spot in a CIF Southern Section boys’ basketball championship game Saturday night.

   San Juan Capistrano’s Capistrano Valley Christian High Christian Eagles got a 10-point first-quarter effort from 6-foot-7 Festus Ndumanya for an early advantage that they were able to maintain throughout on their way to a 48-34 Division 3A semifinal victory over the Palos Verdes Sea Kings at Mission Viejo High.

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