Frank Burlison

REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – Four competitive Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Tournament quarterfinals on Tuesday set the stage for a couple of intriguing championship semifinals on Friday night.

L.A. City Section squads Westchester (over Dominguez) and Narbonne (over Oak Park) collected victories against strong Southern Section teams to set up an “L.A. City Open Division playoff preview game” of sorts at 8 o’clock Friday night.

And host Redondo Union got a 29-point effort from senior guard Zekiah LoVett to hold off Mayfair and gifted sophomores Josh Christopher (31 points) to earn its spot in a 6:30 Friday semifinal against Santa Margarita, which held off a scrap St.

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – The 2017-18 Southern California boys’ basketball season gets off to what should be a rousing beginning Monday afternoon at Redondo Union High.

The 66^th Ryse Williams Pac Shores Tournament – with a title revised to honor the former Redondo standout who passed away last June after a bout with cancer – will feature eight games today in the school’s main and auxiliary gymnasiums.

Six programs that participated in the Southern Section or L.A. City Section Open Division playoffs are among those in what will be one of the strongest fields of any pre-Christmas event in California.

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WEST DEPTFORD, NJ – The Dinos Trigonis-fronted Pangos All-Frosh/Soph Camp fall tour came to another conclusion Sunday afternoon at the River Winds Center with its fourth stop that lured many of the very best players from among the sophomore (2020) and freshmen (’21) classes in the east.

The camp, and the Top 30 All-Star game, was highlighted by the presence of two of the best sophomore guards in the east – and beyond – in Posh Alexander and Marcus Dockery, based in the Bronx and Washington, DC, respectively.

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WEST DEPTFORD, NJ – Marcus Dockery got in front of the storm (due to hit the region Sunday) by about 24 hours Saturday afternoon and evening in the River Winds Community Center.

The 6-foot-1, left-handed sophomore from Roosevelt High in Washington, DC was raining jump shots on anyone and everyone who tried to check him during the first day’s action of the Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph Camp.

Dockery was assigned to the “North Carolina” squad (one of 20 for the approximate 190 or so players in attendance) but wasted little time springing into action with the “Virginia Commonwealth” team, scheduled on Court 1 just before UNC’s game.

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LA GRANGE, IL – Eleven athletes from in and around Chicago are among my choices for the Top 25 players in attendance at the Pangos All-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camp that wrapped up early Sunday afternoon at the Park District sports facility in this suburb of the city.

Among those are sophomores from long-time Public League powers Whitney Young (guard Tyler Beard), Simeon (forward Sincere Callwood) and Morgan Park (guard Adam Miller), along with a Simeon freshman (guard Ahmad Bynum).

But the other 14 were scattered from among seven other states: Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

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