Frank Burlison

Many of the very best high school programs from Southern California will be taking part in the “Hoops for Houston” event to be held Saturday and Sunday at Culver City and Pasadena Maranatha high schools.

Thirty-four different teams will play a collective 21 games, eight each at Culver City and Maranatha on Saturday and five at Maranatha on Sunday.

All the proceeds from the paid admissions ($10 daily) will go to Miller Intermediate School in Houston, whose students and their families were among those devastated by the impact of Hurricane Harvey.

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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Ca. – The first-ever PrepHoops So-Cal Top 250 Expo was held Sunday afternoon at Fountain Valley High.

There were approximately 80 players on hand.

But what the event might have lacked in quanity was more than made up for by way of the quality of players and instructors on hand.

Players got in nearly two hours of exceptional teaching from Clint Parks, Kris Johnson, Aaron Wright, Dominique Dunning, A.J. Gaspora and D’Cean Bryant (the coach at the host school).

Collectively, there isn’t a better group of “skills instructors” to be found anywhere.

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LAKEWOOD, Ca. – It was a “quasi rematch” of the 2017 CIF Southern Section and State Regional Open Division championship games.

And the Santa Ana Mater Dei Monarchs made the “third time the charm” Sunday afternoon at Artesia High during the title game of the fourth Ron Massey Memorial Fall Hoops Classic.

Harvard-bound point guard Spencer Freedman’s eight-foot runner in the lane with two seconds to play gave the Monarchs a 55-53 victory over the Torrance Bishop Montgomery Knights in the last of the 12 games played in the “Elite 8” bracket over the two-day event

There were also eight “Showcase” games played, with 15 teams participating (L.A.

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LAKEWOOD, Ca. – Defending champion Mater Dei High, along with Bishop Montgomery, Culver City and Las Vegas Bishop Gorman, won first-round games Saturday night in the Elite 8 bracket of the fourth Ron Massey Memorial Fall Hoops Classic at Artesia High

Those victories set the stage for championship semifinal games Sunday pitting Mater Dei vs. Culver City (Court 1 at 10:10 a.m.) and Bishop Gorman vs. Bishop Montgomery (Court 1 at 11:20 a.m.).

The championship game is scheduled for 2:50 (also on Court 1).

There were also four “showcase” games played Saturday night among teams that are not part of the Elite 8 portion of the event.

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LAKEWOOD, Ca. – The fourth Ron Massey Memorial Fall Hoops Classic is set for Saturday and Sunday at Artesia High.

The event is named for the much-loved basketball coach who died of an apparent heart attack on April 8 in 2014, just four years after he had retired as Long Beach Jordan’s basketball coach and athletic director, and just three months after the Panthers’ basketball court had been named in his honor.

Twenty-three high school teams are scheduled to participate, eight of those in an “Elite 8” bracket that includes Bishop Montgomery and Mater Dei, which played in both the CIF Southern Section Open and State Southern Open championship games last March.

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