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LONG BEACH — Key players from a couple of CIF Southern Section Open Division squads, as well as the CIF SS Division 1 champion, were among the many standouts Saturday during the Pangos Best of SoCal Spring Showcase at the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church gymnasium.

James Evans Jr. and Darrell Morris, standouts as junior for the Jeff Bryant-coached West Ranch team that was 29-3 last season, scored 34 and 23 points, respectively, in the Class of 2024 Top 20 game that wrapped up the action.

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MESA, AZ — The three West Coast Elite Under Armour Association (UAA) swept their Sunday games at the Legacy Sports Complex Sunday to end up a collective 11-3 over the weekend during Session I of the UA Next boys’ basketball circuit.

Session II — during the second and final spring “live evaluation” period permitted by the NCAA for its Division I-affiliated coaching staffs — for this weekend in South Carolina.

Six-foot-9 Xinyi Li — who helped lead St. John Bosco to the CIF Southern Section Division Open division championship game and the No.

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MESA, AZ — The West Coast Elite Under Armour Association (UAA) Southern California-based 17s squad improved to 4-0 Saturday with back-to-back victories during the second day of UA Next, Session 1, at the 16-court Legacy Sports Complex.

Six-foot-five Vyctorius Miller continued to demonstrate why he’s rated one of the top backcourt prospects in the national Class of 2024 and he and his teammates edged Indiana’s Grand Park Premier (75-71) and Tennessee’s BMaze Elite (59-39) to move on top of the UA Pool D standings.

Miller (pictured) & Co.

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MESA, AZ — The West Coast Elite program’s 17s, 16s and 15s squad won a combined four of their five games during Friday’s first day of Session 1 of the Under Armour Next boys’ basketball grassroots circuit.

And, with Friday morning-to-Sunday afternoon making up the first of two “live spring recruiting weekends” for NCAA Division I-affiliated programs, there were plenty of college coaches on hand to watch the respective teams’ — and players’ — performances.

Action resumes Saturday morning at 8 o’clock in the spiffy — and, yeah, mammoth —  16-court Legacy Sports Center Fieldhouse in this sprawling Phoenix suburb.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – The Harvard-Westlake High boys’ basketball program and its leader picked up the final BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal awards for the 2022-23 season.

The Wolverines’ 76-65, State Open Division victory over Santa Maria St. Joseph on March 11 in Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center wrapped up a 33-2 campaign that placed it among the top five or so “true high school” team performances in the country this past season.

Coach David Rebibo’s club won eight of its nine games against the other seven teams that made up the field for the CIF Southern Section’s Open Division playoff field.

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