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CORONA, Ca. – Both the host Corona Centennial Huskies and the Etiwanda Eagles demonstrated they are very good teams during the first two days of the second Tip-Off at the Empire Invitational.

The tag to that sentence, of course, is: “As if anyone who follows high school basketball in Southern California didn’t know that already”.

OK, but just how good are the teams coached by Josh Giles and Dave Kleckner, respectively?

The Huskies (83-24 over Bakersfield East) and Eagles (61-47 over a game- and 3-point-shooting Great Oak squad) each improved to 2-zip Wednesday night and, minus stunners Friday – when the Huskies take on Fresno Central and Etiwanda tangles with Ranch Verde – should hook up in the championship game Saturday night at 7:45.

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – Each of the 62^nd Pacific Shores Tournament championship quarterfinals played Tuesday at Redondo Union High was reasonably competitive – even if none of them proved to be down-to-the-wire affairs.

Top three seeds St. John Bosco (over Long Beach Millikan), Los Angeles Westchester (over Long Beach Poly) and host Redondo (over North Hollywood Campbell Hall) prevailed by 14, 12 and eight points, respectively Tuesday.

Only fifth seed Lakewood Mayfair (over fourth seed Compton, 75-66) provided an element of “surprise” to Tuesday’s proceedings.

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – Six favorites advanced with relative ease, while two more teams had a rougher go of it before advancing to the championship quarterfinals of the 62^nd Pacific Shores Tournament in the opening Monday night of the Southern California high school hoops season Monday night at Redondo Union High.

Top-seed St. John Bosco (84-35 over Palos Verdes, with a running clock in the fourth quarter), No. 2 Westchester (69-41 over Peninsula), host and three-seed Redondo (76-39 over Morningside) and four-seed Compton (74-66 over Narbonne) advanced to the Tuesday’s quarters by an average margin of victory of 30.5 points.

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  LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The Southern California high school hoops season tips off today and in grand fashion, too.

  A half-dozen of the BurlisonOnBasketball Southern California Top 30 teams – including Bellflower St. John Bosco and L.A. Westchester – are part of the 16-team field in the Pacific Shores Tournament being held at Redondo Union High in Redondo Beach.

  If the seeding in the tourney holds up, those two clubs will hook up in the championship game on Saturday night.

  Another potentially terrific tournament gets underway Tuesday at Corona Centennial.

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PARKER, Co. – Sunday the opportunity was at hand for the high school hoopsters to show their – uh, no pun intended – stuff on Day II of the first-ever Pangos All-Colorado Camp at Legend High.

And a whole bunch of them did just that.

Four seniors who plan to sign national letters of intent this week didn’t need to show up.

After all, they’ve already earned their scholarships.

But show up they did – while showing out quite impressively, thank you very much.

One of those 12^th-graders, Dominique Collier (Denver East), could have driven to Boulder to watch his future college program, the University of Colorado Buffalos, play host to Tennessee-Martin late Sunday afternoon.

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