SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Jaxen Turner of Moreno Valley’s Rancho Verde High is rated among the very best defensive backs in the national Class of 2019.
And, as he put on display so precisely Thursday night at JSerra High during his team’s State Southern Regional Division I playoff game with Santa Margarita, he’s among the upper-tier among basketball prospects in the class, as well.
The 6-foot-1 Turner scored 30 points – three of them via a 41-foot, buzzer-beating, game-winner – in the Mustangs’ gut-twisting 57-54 victory over the Eagles.
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