Frank Burlison

LAGUNA NIGUEL – Cody Riley, who set a single-game rebounding record while leading Sierra Canyon to its first-ever state championship victory, is the BurlisonOnBasketball 2014-15 Southern California High School Most Outstanding Player for the sophomore class.

The 6-foot-8 Riley grabbed 22 rebounds while scoring 18 points to go with three blocked shots in the Trailblazers’ 80-55 victory over San Francisco University in the Division V final at UC Berkeley on March 27.

For the season the two-time All-CIF Southern Section Open selection (the team went into its “natural” division for the state playoffs after losing to Etiwanda in the second round of the Section playoffs) averaged 15.6 points and 9.4 rebounds in a season that ended with his team at 26-4.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Riley Battin – whose adjustment to high school basketball wasn’t hampered by much in the way of “rough patches” – is the BurlisonOnBasketball 2014-15 Southern California High School Most Outstanding Player for the freshman class.

The 6-foot-7 Battin averaged 21.8 points and 10.5 rebounds per game at Oak Park while closing his first season as a prep with a 25-point, 11-rebound effort in his team’s 93-89 loss to Millikan in a second-round CIF Southern Section 1AA playoff game.

Players from the CIF Southern, L.A.

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PARKER, CO – A player who has probably hit a lot of shots from the very spot on that court nailed a huge 3 pointer down the stretch Saturday evening at Legend High.

Jared Small, a 6-foot-7 junior who attends Legend, dropped in the 3 from the left corner with 40 seconds to play to put the white jersey-wearing team up a point over its gray shirt-wearing counterparts in the Top 20 all-star game of the West Coast Elite Camp/Colorado.

After Jordan Phillips (a 6-6 junior at San Creek in Colorado Springs) missed a jump shot at the other end of the floor, 6-8 junior Austin Mueller (ThunderRidge in Highlands Ranch), was fouled with 8.3 seconds to go and hit both ends of a 1-and-1 free-throw opportunity to seal the 92-89 victory.

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PARKER, CO – There are going to be some terrific boys basketball prospects making their high school debuts some eight months or so from now in Colorado.

That was evident during the elementary and middle school portion of the West Coast Elite All-Star Camp/Colorado Friday at Legend High in this Denver suburb.

Six-foot-four Jaedon Bowles scored 25 points while leading the white jersey-wearing to a 74-70 victory over its gray-wearing counterparts in the Top 20 game that wrapped up the first day of the camp Friday night.

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IRVINE, Ca. – The first Orange County Boys High School Basketball All-Star Game, presented by Open Gym Premier, takes place Saturday night at 7 o’clock at Irvine Valley College.

Many of the very best seniors in Orange County, including UC Irvine-bound Brandon Smith (Godinez), UC Riverside signee Eric Rwahwire (Saddleback Valley Christian) and future UC Davis player Rogers Printup (Orange Lutheran), are among those expected to participate.

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