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IRVINE, Ca – Twenty games among some of the better boys’ basketball teams in Southern California, spread two sites and Saturday and Sunday are the hook for the Hoops By Ugland Fall Showcase.

Fourteen of those games, with the first tipping off at 9 a.m., will be played at Beckman High in Irvine (3588 Bryan) Saturday on two courts.

And the final six will be played at Servite High in Anaheim (1952 West La Palma).

Daily admission is $10. According to Irvine Unified School District and school policies, spectators must wear masks at all times while inside the gymnasiums, as must coaches and players when their teams aren’t playing.

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IRVINE, Ca – Twenty games among some of the better boys’ basketball teams in Southern California, spread two sites and Saturday and Sunday are the hook for the Hoops By Ugland Fall Showcase.

Fourteen of those games, with the first tipping off at 9 a.m., will be played at Beckman High in Irvine (3588 Bryan) Saturday on two courts.

And the final six will be played at Servite High in Anaheim (1952 West La Palma).

Daily admission is $10. According to Irvine Unified School District and school policies, spectators must wear masks at all times while inside the gymnasiums, as must coaches and players when their teams aren’t playing.

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ENCINITIS, Ca – The start of the “real” high school basketball season is less than a month away.

And those in the Boys & Girls Club gymnasium in this San Diego suburb got a nifty look at some of the better players in San Diego County, as well as the make-up of what should be some of the better teams, Wednesday night in the first-ever Pangos Best of San Diego Showcase.

The St. Augustine squad that has positioned itself as the preseason choice to win the San Diego section’s Open Division crown was well represented by three players that make one of the state’s best 2021-22 “perimeter: juniors Jurian Dixon (6-foot-5) and Jaden Matingou (6-2), and sophomore Lolo Rudolph (6-2).

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LA GRANGE, IL – Sophomores Dekwon Brown and Payton Kamin led the black jerseys past their white counterparts, 99-94, Sunday afternoon in The Top 30 Cream of the Crop Game to cap the annual two-day Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp at the Park District sports facility.

The 6-foot-3 Brown (Limestone Community on Bartonville, about 170 miles southwest of Chicago) opened the game with three 3-pointers, finishing with 17 points, and the 6-6 Kamin (DePaul Prep in Chicago) sizzled after intermission, when he drilled four clutch 3s en route to his 16-point effort.

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LA GRANGE, IL – There is no shortage of quality basketball “post prospects” from within the Illinois borders in the high school classes of 2024, ’25 and ’26.

That was made abundantly clear on Saturday’s first day of the annual Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp is once again being held at the Park District sports facility in this Chicago suburb.

And Chicago’s St. Rita High program showcased two of those bigs during the first two rounds of games played among the 200-plus players (scattered from among 14 states) divided into 24 games.

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