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STUDIO CITY – The Harvard-Westlake boys basketball team’s 76-66 home victory over Chaminade Wednesday night was a multi-pronged accomplishment:

It, 1) Secured an unbeaten (6-0) regular-season Mission League record; 2) it gave the Wolverines the No. 1 seed and a spot in the Feb. 5 semifinal doubleheader of the league tournament and, 3) it was another notch on the CIF Southern Section Open Division “resume” for Coach David Rebibo’s squad.

Although the margin of victory – the Wolverines were up by 16 points with about three minutes to go in the third quarter – wouldn’t suggest it, it was nothing short of a hard-earned win against a Chaminade squad (22-6 overall and 3-3 in league) that was coming off a Saturday victory against Richmond Salesian, one of Northern California’s best teams.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Ten of the teams in the updated BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25 will play Friday or Saturday during the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei High.

The host Monarchs (No. 7/18-5) will play twice in the event, Friday night vs. Servite (in a Trinity League game) and Saturday night against Chicago Whitney Young.

Other notable Nike X match-ups include No. 2 Corona Centennial vs. Richmond Salesian (Saturday 3 o’clock); No. 3 Rancho Christian vs. Washington, DC, Gonzaga (Saturday 9 p.m.); No. 4 Etiwanda vs. No. 16 Westchester (Saturday, 4:30); and No.

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LOS ANGELES – Coach Josh Giles’ Corona Centennial High team continued to play like The 2019-20 High School Basketball Story in California Saturday night at Harbor College during the Rolling Hills State Preview/Presented by Scorebook Live.

The 21-2 Huskies rapidly turned what had been expected to be a possible down-to-the-wire matchup into nothing short of a blowout, blistering Windward (No. 10 in last week’s BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25), 66-45.

It was their 17^th consecutive win, collected in much the same fashion utilized in their 21 victories – with constant full-court pressure applied at both ends of the floor.

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TEMECULA – A clash between host Rancho Christian and Riverside Poly is the jewel in Saturday’s five-game Eagle Showcase.

The host Eagles (17-5) are No. 2 in the BurlisonOnBasketball top 25 while Riverside Poly (19-4) checks in at No. 20.

Each has a pair of players that signed with Division I programs in November: Evan Mobley (USC) and Dominick Harris (Gonzaga) for Rancho Christian and Lamont Butler (San Diego State/pictured) and D.J. Davis (UC Irvine) for the Bears.

Schedule

  1:30 p.m., Banning vs. Murrieta Mesa; 3, Linfield Christian vs.

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LOS ANGELES – The Windward High Wildcats, just two night after taking top-ranked Sierra Canyon to the wire, get a pop at No. 3 Corona Centennial Saturday night (8:20) at Harbor College in the finale of the Rolling Hills State Preview/Presented by Scorebook Live.

Coach Colin Pfaff’s Wildcats (18-6 and No. 10 in this week’s BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25) were edged by Sierra Canyon at Cal State Northridge Thursday night, 71-68.

Centennial (19-2) is taking a 15-game winning streak into its Friday night Big VIII League game at Corona Santiago.

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