Frank Burlison

LYNWOOD and WESTMINSTER, Ca. – Courtesy the 710 and 405 freeways, Sunday proved a productive day for zeroing in on some of the best high school basketball individual – and team – talent in Southern California.

The first stop was at Lynwood High, where middle school hoops impresario Julius von Hanzlik held a “Julius V Select 24” double-dip, the first game pitting some of the best in the Southland’s Class of 2019 (freshmen) and the second with the Class of 2018 (sophomores) on display.

Many of the players who participated on Sunday also participated in the Sept.

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NORWALK, Ca. – The much-better-than-average depth in the western classes of 2018&19 was on display on Sunday’s second and final day of the Pangos All-West Frosh/Soph Camp at Cerritos Community College.

Wrapping up the action were Top 60 and Top 30 all-star games, which followed two rounds of games on Sunday morning and early afternoon.

In the first game the “White” jersey-wearing squad defeated its “Black” counterpart, 92-69.

Six-foot-five Trey Johnson – who, along with his father, made the 16-hour trek, by automobile, from Idaho Falls to Southern California to participate in the camp – scored 15 points for the winning squad to garner Most Outstanding Player honors (from my perspective, at least).

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NORWALK, Ca. – Much of the very best in the western high school classes of 2018 and ’19 was on display Saturday afternoon and evening during the Pangos All-Frosh/Soph Camp at Cerritos College.

And the guards in those respective classes were especially impressive – and, often, spectacular – for much of Saturday.

*Spencer Freedman seemed to do pretty much whatever he so desired in the two games he played for the “Colorado” squad Saturday.

The left-handed Santa Ana Mater Dei High transfer (who had a very good freshman season at Santa Monica) scored at will, via mid- to deep-range jump shots and nifty drives, and also delivered passes where and when they needed to be delivered.

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – The Hoop Masters High School Fall League, hosted by Redondo Union High, tips off on Saturday at noon.

The schedule:

Main Gym/Noon, Del Amo (players from West Torrance High) vs. 91 Freeway (Eastvale Roosevelt); 1 p.m., Josh Childress (Mayfair) vs. Trevor Ariza (Westchester); 2, D Wright (Leuzinger) vs. 91 Freeway; 3, Dijon Thompson (Redondo) vs. D Hi (Dominguez).

Small Gym/Noon, The Holidays (Campbell Hall) vs. Atlantic Avenue (Long Beach Poly); 1, Demar DeRozan (Compton) vs. 90210 (Beverly Hills); 3, The Cravens (Bishop Montgomery) vs.

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LONG BEACH, Ca. – The second Ron Massey Memorial Fall Hoops Classic followed pretty much the same script as did the first version of the event:

And as the case in 2014, that meant that the Chino Hills High squad was posing on the floor after the final game with pictures being snapped in the aftermath of its championship effort.

And it was the same fellow pulling each and everyone same figurative string on the court that he did a year ago.

And six-foot-five senior Lonzo Ball used his team’s three games to offer the usual abundance of evidence that he is without peer as a player in Southern California and well beyond, no doubt.

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