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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – It was a compelling Saturday night for Southern California high school basketball – including one game that was played in the northern part of the state.

*Chatsworth Sierra Canyon, just behind Chino Hills in the BurlisonOnBasketball preseason Top 25, frittered a second-half, 12-point advantage away and lost to Hayward Moreau Catholic, 60-59, during the Prep2Prep Tip-Off Classic at Newark Memorial High.

*Back in Southern California, proper, the host Redondo Union Seahawks pulled away down the stretch to knock off Long Beach Poly, 64-49, in a rematch of the 2014 finale (won by Poly) during the 64^th Dijon Thompson/Pac Shores Tournament.

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – The Redondo Union and Long Beach Poly programs will hook up in the championship game of the Dijon Thompson/Pac Shores Tournament Saturday night at 7:30 at Redondo High – for the second year in a row.

The Jackrabbits knocked off the Seahawks – in overtime – last Nov. 29, 63-61.

Zafir Williams scored 28 points for Poly and was selected the event’s Most Outstanding Player.

The 6-foot-6 junior scored 26 to help his team knock off Eastvale Roosevelt, 55-48, Friday night to earn the Jackrabbits’ spot in the Saturday night finale.

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NEWARK, Ca. – The ninth Prep2Prep Tip-Off – with seven games being served on the Thanksgiving Weekend platter – gets underway Saturday morning at 11 o’clock at Newark Memorial High.

Five of the games are “NorCal vs. NorCal” matchups, with the exceptions being the Sacramento Sheldon vs. Carlsbad Army-Navy (in San Diego County) at 3:45 p.m. and, in the 8:30 finale, Hayward Moreau Catholic vs. Chatsworth (in the San Fernando Valley) Sierra Canyon.

Sierra Canyon returns five starters from the team that won the California State Division V title last March in Berkeley.

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – The first three championship quarterfinals Wednesday during the 64^th Dijon Thompson/Pacific Shores Tournament were decided by margins of 18, 15 and 26 points, respectively.

The last of those quarterfinals played at Redondo Union High, between Long Beach Poly and Inglewood, didn’t follow that M.O. at all.

Trailing by seven points with a little less than a minute to go, Inglewood got a very deep 3 from senior guard Terrell Gomez then, after a steal, Jordan Bell dunked to get the Sentinels within two points with 28 seconds remaining.

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. — The first seven games played during Monday’s opening round of the 64^th Dijon Thompson/Pacific Shores Tournament went pretty much to script at Redondo Union High.

As for Game No. 8, though . . . well, that wasn’t quite the case.

Encino Crespi returned four starters from a squad that won CIF Southern Section 4AA and State Division IV crowns last March and the Celtics were No. 7 in the BurlisonOnBasketball Southern California preseason Top 25.

But apparently none of those things made a dent in the resolve of the Peninsula Panthers, who are projected to finish in third place in the Bay League standings this season behind Pac Shores host Redondo and another tourney participant, Inglewood.

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