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LAS VEGAS – During its first six games, the Irvine Crean Lutheran High boys’ basketball squad has shown that it’s not only among the elite teams in Orange County but a contender for one of the eight CIF Southern Section Open Division playoff bids, as well.

But Coach Nate Klitzing’s team will get by far its toughest test of the season Tuesday afternoon at Bishop Gorman High.

The Saints, who rolled past South Jordan (UT) Bingham Monday night, 71-54, in the Orleans Hotel Arena, take on one of the top teams from Texas in the 2:30 championship game of the Gold Division of the Tarkanian Classic.

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LAS VEGAS – The Gold Division will provide the opponents in the first two of the four Tarkanian Classic semifinals that will be played Monday afternoon and evening in the Orleans Hotel Arena.

On Saturday in Bishop Gorman’s auxiliary gymnasium, South Jordan (UT) Bingham (with its 67-63 win over Oakland Bishop O’Dowd in double overtime) and Irvine (CA) Crean Lutheran (by way of its 67-41 toppling of Baton Rouge Liberty Magnet), set the field for the first Gold Division semifinal at 3 o’clock on Monday.

The second (4:30) semi opponents will be Fresno San Joaquin Memorial (which edged JSerra of South Orange County in Southern California, 59-56, in one of the event’s most competitive and well-played games) vs.

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LAS VEGAS – The Las Vegas-based programs were 4-for-4 in opening-day Friday games in the Platinum Division of the Tarkanian Classic at Bishop Gorman High.

The host Gaels (71-39, vs. Evangel Christian School of Kentucky), Liberty (80-71 over San Diego St. Augustine), Durango (57-47 against Pebblebrook of Georgia) and Coronado (which smacked Chicago De La Salle, 77-43) to move to quarterfinal games of the event’s top division Saturday afternoon and evening.

Those begin at 3:30, with Durango taking on Playa del Rey (CA) St. Bernard, followed by Bishop Gorman vs Richmond (CA) Salesian at 5; Coronado vs.

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LAS VEGAS – Day II of the “prep school/academy” portion of the 10^th Tarkanian Classic at Bishop Gorman High once again was a showcase for a couple of the prime prospects in the national Class of 2023.

Robert Dillingham, as gifted a guard as there is in the junior class, sparked the recently-formed Donda Academy squad (based in the San Fernando Valley area of Southern California), to a 76-64 victory over Denver Prep.

The 6-foot-1 Dillingham (originally from Charlotte, he was the linchpin of the CP3 EYBL team at the Peach Jam last July), got plenty of help from 6-5 Zion Cruz – especially after intermission.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – Only three public high school programs are in the updated BurlisonOnBasketball Southern California boys’ ratings.

Corona Centennial, following a 33-point beatdown of the defending top-division, state-champion from Arizona Saturday in Phoenix, maintains the top spot it will likely hold on to until the Huskies are beaten by a Southern California-based program.

The other two public-school programs in the Top 15 are No. 7 Riverside Poly and No. 15 Ontario Colony.

Damien (now No. 3) and Harvard-Westlake (4) swapped spots in the Top 15 after Harvard-Westlake suffered its first loss (to Mountain Pointe in the same Hoophall Classic Centennial and Sierra Canyon played in last week) and Damien – as R.J.

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