Frank Burlison

  SPRINGFIELD, Ma. – A couple of prep school powers that could be well-represented on the 2019 McDonald’s All-American team hooked up in a high-profile match-up Sunday evening in Springfield College’s Blake Arena on the fourth day of the Spalding HoopHall Classic.

  And it was IMG Academy (Bradenton, FL) that was able to out-slug Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, VA), 72-67, in a contest that was every bit as competitive and entertaining as one could reasonably hope for.

   IMG led by 12 points late in the first quarter but trailed by six points at intermission.

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   LAGUNA NIGUEL – The final two weeks of the regular season tip off Monday morning with the 12-game Orange Lutheran High HoopFest.

   Among the games set are No. 4 in the latest BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25) Corona Centennial and Sacramento Sheldon (4:45 p.m.); No. 14 (Chino Hills and Onyeka Okongwu vs. Sacramento Grant (12:30 p.m.); No. 10 Mater Dei and St. Bernard (7:45 p.m.); and No. 13 Orange Lutheran and L.A Cathedral (6:15 p.m.).

   In a much cooler – literally not figuratively – portion of the country on Monday, No.’s

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  SPRINGFIELD, Ma. – Guard Al-Amir Dawes of the Patrick School (Hillside, NJ), who signed a National Letter of Intent with Clemson in November, scored 25 points and his team held off its Our Savior New American (Centereach, NY) counterpart, 66-65, Saturday night in Springfield College’s Blake Arena.

   It was the last of seven games played during the third day of the Spalding HoopHall Classic.

  One of the nation’s elite sophomore prospects, Jonathan Kuminga (PICTURED), had an opportunity to send the game into overtime for Our Savior but missed the back end of a 1-and-1 free-throw situation with 4.1 seconds remaining.

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NORWALK, Ca. – Here are some potentially compelling individual match-ups in Saturday’s seven-game, Rolling Hills Prep/Scorebook Live State Preview at Cerritos Community College:

12:30 p.m., Fresno State-bound Anthony Holland (Notre Dame-Riverside) vs. unsigned Braelee Albert (Brentwood School): Albert (PICTURED) and Holland are both very strong and competitive “inside-outside” players who led their respective programs to CIF Southern Section titles last March.

2, Cal State Fullerton signee Tory San Antonio (Rancho Verde) vs. Santa Clara-committed Giordan Williams (Long Beach Poly): Each player is trying to get them respective team into the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoff field.

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  NORWALK, Ca. – Seven teams in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 25 are among the 14 squads participating in the Rolling Hills Prep/Scorebook Live State Preview Saturday at Cerritos Community College.

  The highest-rated of those seven squads is No. 6 Santa Ana Mater Dei, which will take on No. 23 Camarillo, which is led by UCLA-bound Jaime Jaquez Jr. (PICTURED)

  The Monarchs (21-1), who travel to Bellflower to play No. 13 St. John Bosco in a key Trinity League game Friday night, start three sophomores and two juniors.

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