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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – Day I of the 63^rd Dijon Thompson Pac Shores Tournament featured eight first-round games.

But, in reality, two of those contests had more thrills and chills than the other six combined.

And one of those – the clash between Calabasas and Lakewood Mayfair – had something else the others didn’t: That would be 12 extra minutes of playing time.

Winners Monday were Calabasas (84-77 over Mayfair, with the aforementioned three four-minute overtime stanzas needed to seal the deal); host Redondo (75-47 over Harbor City Narbonne, in the final game of the evening); Gardena Serra (71-65 over Santa Monica); Bellflower St.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – High school basketball’s 2014-15 season – Southern California-style – tips off Monday afternoon at Redondo Union with the 63^rd Dijon Thompson Pacific Shores Tournament.

The 16-team field includes seven squads selected in BurlisonOnBasketball’s preseason SoCal Top 25, topped by the host Sea Hawks (No. 6) and Long Beach Poly (7) – the top two seeds in the event.

Rounding out the top four seeds are No. 3 Compton (9 in the Top 25) and No. 4 L.A. Westchester (16).

The eight first-round games will be played, staggered by a half hour, in the school’s main and auxiliary gymnasiums, beginning with the 3 o’clock game between Compton and North Hollywood Campbell Hall in the auxiliary gym and the 3:30 contest pitting Palos Verdes Peninsula and Westchester.

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PARKER, CO – The dominant play of two of the national Class of 2016’s best prospects was a major highlight to Sunday’s high school portion of the West Coast Elite Camp/Colorado at Legend High in this Denver suburb.

That one of those juniors is 6-foot-9 De’Ron Davis of Overland High in nearby Aurora is a given:

He’s been widely considered one of the top 2016 post prospects since well before he played a game in a high school uniform. There was an Associated Press story written about in Denver when he was an eighth grader.

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PARKER, CO – The “present” of the best of the high school basketball players in Colorado will be on display Sunday during the West Coast Elite Camp/Colorado at Legend High in this Denver suburb.

And the “future” showed off its collective promise Saturday during the elementary and middle school portion of the event.

Approximately 100 players – the vast majority of those in grades 7 and 8 – participated Saturday, with every camp team playing twice and the day culminating with Top 40 and Top 20 all-star games.

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SALT LAKE CITY – Most of the very best prep hoop players in Utah – and then some – were on hand Saturday at West High for the first-ever West Coast Elite All-Star Camp/Utah.

There is a particularly strong class of 2016 within the state and Frank Jackson (6-foot-3/Highland Lone Peak), Yoeli Childs (6-7/South Jordan Bingham) and Gavin Baxter (6-7/Provo Timpview) each did his part to justify that perception Saturday.

Jackson scored with something bordering on absurd ease, either in transition or half-court settings, by way of pull-up jumpers – from just about any point at or within the arc – and explosive forays to the rim, around or over the top of defenders.

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