Frank Burlison

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Ca. – The Northern- and Southern-based California programs split the 10 bracket championship games played Sunday to tie a bushel of ribbons and bows on the third Boys’ Cali Live basketball tournament on the conclusion of its final day.

The CIF Southern Section’s St. John Bosco, Harvard-Westlake, JSerra, Millikan and Oak Hills took crowns, while the upper half of the state got titles via Richmond Salesian, Amador Valley, San Ramon California, St. Ignatius and Branson.

With the Branson and Salesian wins Sunday they hold bracket crowns from Cali Live and the June 20-22 Section 7 in Mesa (AZ) – the only programs to pull off that accomplishment.

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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO & LADERA RANCH, Ca. – The powerhouse Mission and Trinity Leagues will be represented by six programs Sunday spread over the 10 Boys Cali Live championship games.

Nine of those will be played at San Juan Hills High, with the 10^th (pitting Campbell Hall and Branson) set for the Ladera Sports Center at 5:15 in the evening.

And there would have been a fourth Trinity team playing for title hardware Sunday, but the Mater Dei Monarchs are scheduled to start their school’s CIF-mandated two-week athletics “dead period” on Sunday.

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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Pretty much every standout California- basketball guard from the classes of 2026, ’27 and ’28 drew the rapt attention from college coaches from across the country Friday during the first day of the third Boys California Live/presented by SCIBCA at the Ladera Sports Center and San Juan Hills high.

And a kid who is nearly fourth months away from playing his first regular-season high school game made sure that the Class of 2029 was well-repped, too.

Will Conroy, Jr. scored 31 points afternoon as Village Christian dropped an “overtime” (in the case, the first team hitting four points was awarded the win) loss to Branson, 63-60, early Friday afternoon at San Juan Hills, which is located about five minutes southeast of the LSC, the eight-court facility in Ladera Ranch that is the hub of the event.

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LADERA RANCH – The third Boys California Live basketball tournament gets underway early Friday morning, with games set to be played at the Ladera Sports Center and near-by San Juan Hills and Tesoro high schools.

Although the event – at which the bulk of the better high school programs in California gather, represented by their projected rosters for the following season – began two years ago and was held at multiple Orange County sites, this is just the second times it’s been in SoCal.

The California Interscholastic Association (CIF) decreed that the “host” of the event alternate each June.

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MESA, AZ – Sunday’s final day of Section 7 boys’ basketball action did a superb job of showcasing a big chunk of the west’s best teams and players for the 2025-26 season.

And seven of the event’s 10 bracket champions will be in Southern California’s south Orange County to try to win second titles this weekend.

Southern California’s Sherman Oaks Notre Dame; Encino Crespi and Irvine’s Crean Lutheran; the northern half of the state’s Richmond Salesian, Branson and San Francisco University; and Goodyear (AZ) Millennium are the seven programs trying to go 4-zip for the second week in a row during the Cali Live.

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