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LA VERNE, CA – It took a gut-twisting extra four minutes, but the Roosevelt High Mustangs repeated as Platinum Division champions of The Classic at Damien Monday night.

The Mustangs needed a successful inbound pass from Issac Williamson to Christian Benjamin with 1.4 seconds to go in overtime to finally prevail, 56-55, over the St. John Bosco Braves in a rematch of last year’s final.

Coach Steve Singleton’s program became the first to win back-to-back Platinum crowns since Rancho Christian did it in 2018 and ’19.

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LA VERNE, CA – A high school basketball rematch – 365 days in the making – is set for Monday night at 8:30 in the Athletic Center on the Damien High campus.

A year-to-the-day that the Roosevelt High Mustangs knocked off the St. John Bosco Braves (68-65) in the Platinum Division championship game of The Classic at Damien, the same programs – with much of the same casts – will be at it again in the finale of the Platinum Division of the country’s top “traditional high schools-only” post-Christmas tournament.

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LA VERNE, CA – Three of the best boys’ basketball teams from California – and another from Utah – powered their way into the Saturday night championship semifinals of the Platinum Division in the eighth edition of The Classic at Damien with strong Friday performances.

The top-ranked team in California – 13-0 St. John Bosco – faces a second challenge in 15 days from 12-2 La Mirada at 7 o’clock.

And defending Platinum champion Roosevelt (13-1) and Utah’s Layton Christian Academy (7-4) follow at 8:30. Both games will be played in the school’s Athletic Center.

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LA VERNE, CA – These are the highlights of Thursday’s Day I of the eighth edition of The Classic at Damien . . .

Well, where to begin?

*Central California power Clovis North of Fresno, along with Sandra Day O’Connor of Phoenix and Layton Christian Academy of Utah, pulled off tight first-round wins to join five of Southern California’s 10 best teams in a power-packed group of Platinum Division quarterfinals Friday in Damien’s Athletic Center.

*And, in the most anticipated first-day game of the event – and, for that matter,  anywhere else in High School Hoops Land Thursday – Jason Crowe, Jr.

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LA VERNE, CA – Many of the elite boys high school basketball programs in Southern California – and beyond – will tip off on Thursday’s first day of The Classic at Damien.

The eighth annual event has a field of 128 teams, made of up eight, 16-team divisions.

Sixteen games, split between the Platinum (Athletic Center) and Gold (Event Center) brackets, will be played on Damien’s campus Thursday, beginning with the Platinum game pitting Redondo Union (10-1 and No. 5 in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 30) against Sacramento Destiny Christian (4-2).

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