Frank Burlison

LA HABRA – There may be just one Orange County-based club involved but Friday night’s Sonora High North Orange County boys’ basketball championships’ semifinals should be dandies.

Canyon of Anaheim (5-2) takes on Heritage Chrsitian (5-1) in a clash of pool B and A winners at 6 o’clock, with pools C (11-0 Etiwanda) and D (8-1 Rancho Verde) following at 7:30.
The matchups were set via pool winners Wednesday, Heritage Christian over Aquinas (53-29), Etiwanda over Cypress (58-42), Canyon over Norte Vista (77-63) and Rancho Verde over the host Raiders (83-71).

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REDONDO BEACH – Many of the CIF Southern Section’s top boys’ basketball teams were on display Saturday in the Take Flight Challenge at Redondo Union High.

Arizona’s No. 1 team, Millennium of Goodyear, pulled out a 62-60 victory over Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, last season’s CIF SS and State Southern Regional Open runner-up, in the last of eight games played in RUHS’s main gymnasium.

Junior guard Adrian Higuera, after a pass from Adan Diggs, hit a go-ahead 3 from the right corner with 2:11 to go to up the Tigers up, 61-60, with the only other point a free throw by Diggs with 2.0 seconds remaining.

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REDONDO BEACH – Arizona’s top-ranked boys’ basketball team, Millennium of Goodyear, got double-figure scoring from four players to lead wire to wire in knocking off JSerra, 68-58, Friday in the first day of the Take Flight Challenge at Redondo Union High.

Six-foot-seven sophomore Trey McKinney, who played at Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas as a freshman, hit four 3s en route to a game-high 25 points as the Tigers – under first year Head Coach Rich Thornton, a long-time assistant to Grant Rice at Bishop Gorman – improved to 7-1.

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REDONDO BEACH – For the second time in three nights, a freshman guard led his high school basketball team to an upset of a Top 10 CIF Southern Section squad.

Monday it was Will Conroy Jr., with the game-deciding 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds remaining and 28 points, nine rebounds and seven assists, propelling host Village Christian past Crespi, 78-77.

Wednesday it was Zach Arnold, in his first start for San Gabriel Academy, stepping up in pristine fashion while anchoring the Eagles’ 58-55 stunner against the host Sea Hawks on the third day of Redondo Union High’s Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Showcase and Tournament.

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REDONDO BEACH  – Jason Crowe Jr. continued his assault on California’s career scoring record Monday night at Redondo Union on the first day of the Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Showcase.

The 6-foot-3, left-handed senior guard scored 50 points while leading Inglewood past Cypress, 95-80, to improve to 5-0 with the Sentinels’ next game set for Wednesday night at George Washington Prep in Los Angeles.

Crowe, who plans to attend the University of Missouri for his freshman season next year, is 121 points short of surpassing Santa Maria St.

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