Frank Burlison

Boys’ basketball programs with a high degree of familiar with one another will meet Tuesday night to earn slots in next weekend’s respective State CIF Division I and Open championships in Sacramento.

St. John Bosco (24-9) will play host to Damien (30-7) in Bellflower at 7 o’clock, with the winner of the Southern Regional D-I final playing its Northern counterpart Friday night, at 8, in the Golden 1 Center.

And, in another regional final to decide which team will travel to Sac Town to represent the Southern regional in the Saturday night (also at 8) Open final, Mission League rivals Harvard-Westlake (27-6) plays top seed Sierra Canyon (28-1 – with a 23-game win streak that started on Dec.

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REDONDO BEACH – Six-foot-nine senior Drew Anderson missed only one shot – a free throw – en route to a 29-point performance that helped the Santa Margarita High Eagles edge the host Redondo Union Sea Hawks, Wednesday night in a State Southern Regional boys Open basketball game.

The win earned the Eagles (28-5) another long trip from Rancho Santa Margarita Saturday – to the San Fernando Valley’s Chatsworth – to take on top seed and CIF Southern Section Open champion Sierra Canyon.

The Trailblazers (27-1) knocked off the Eagles, 70-47, in a Feb.

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The seasons of the respective Division I top seeds – and the high school career of the most prolific scorer in state history – concluded on Tuesday night’s opening round of the CIF State Regional boys’ basketball competition.

For the second year in a row, the team sitting atop the Southern Regional’s bracket was stunned by the 16 seed.

And this time the North’s top seed in the bracket was “one and done”, as well.

La Mirada (24-9) landed in the top spot after going 2-2 – the wins at St.

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There is a multitude of Tuesday night, first-round viewing options for boys’ basketball in Divisions I thru V in the CIF State Southern Regional action.

As for Wednesday’s night Open Division play, there is just one viable option – Santa Margarita at Redondo Union – unless a hike up the coast to Santa Maria to watch Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and host St. Joseph is on your agenda.

Among the eight Division I games, the one likely to draw the most attention (and largest crowd) whose rooting interests are not specifically tied to either of the participants will be held in La Verne, where host Damien (27-7/1-2 in the Southern Section Open playoffs) and No.

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ONTARIO – The Sierra Canyon basketball program – make that, programs – turned in quite the collective four-plus hours Saturday night in the Toyota Arena.

First, the top-seeded boys’ Trailblazers squad used its multitude of skilled and bouncy players to hold off Mission League foe Harvard-Westlake, 59-53, to win its first CIF Southern Section Open Division championships in six years.

Then, the school’s girls pulled off a stunner in front of a largely partisan crowd of 5,123, knocking off Ontario Christian – ranked No. 2 nationally while taking a 31-1 record into the building – 69-62 by outscoring the Knights by 12 points in the fourth quarter.

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