Frank Burlison

REDONDO BEACH — Three of the five games played during Tuesday’s long first day of the 72^nd Ryse Williams/Pacific Shores event at Redondo Union High needed a collective five overtimes to determine winners.

Not surprisingly, Harvard-Westlake wasn’t one of those basketball teams needing extra time to bag its fifth win in as many tries.

Coach David Rebibo’s defending state Open Division champion got all but 10 of its points from its “Big Three” of seniors Trent Perry (30) and Robert Hinton (23), and junior Nikolas Khamenia (20), to keep a gritty La Mirada squad at bay, 83-68, in what qualified as the first “competitive” contest the Wolverines had been involved with in a season just into its 16^th day Tuesday.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. — Eight teams from among the first 13 in the updated BurlisonOnBasketball Top 30 SoCal ratings — including No.’s 1, 2&3 squads — will participate in the 72^nd Ryse Williams/Pacific Shores, which tips off at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon at Redondo Union High.

The Southland’s top pre-Christmas high school hoops event also includes six other squads from among the Top 30 that will participate in single game “showcase” (non-tournament) competition that runs five days thru Saturday evening.

Action tips at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon with No.

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DUBLIN, Ca. — The “North” and “South” split their two high-profile matchups Saturday during the nine-game, 16^th NorCal Tip-Off Classic at Dublin High.

*Eastvale (located about nine miles north of Corona, for those familiar with Riverside County) Roosevelt trailed 5-zip before reeling off 19 consecutive points en route to 77-72 victory over San Francisco Riordan.

The 5-0 Mustangs hit 10 3-pointers in the first half (they finished with 14) while going in front by as many as 21 points before intermission.

That advantage was 19 points going into the final quarter before Coach Steve Singleton’s offense bogged down via rushed/ill-advised shot attempts (usually, after one pass beyond mid-court) and six missed free throws.

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The 16^th Nor-Cal Tip-Off — with its nine-game field — gets underway Saturday morning at 8 o’clock at Dublin High.

Rise and shine, indeed!

Many of the top teams from Northern California will be joined by a couple of the best teams from the south — and in the entire west — in what should be a terrific day of basketball.

The action gets underway with Oakland Head-Royce facing San Jose Bellarmine Prep.

The “So-Cal vs. Nor-Cal” clashes are set for 2 and 8:30.

Eastvale Roosevelt (No.

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BELLFLOWER — California’s No. 2-ranked boys’ basketball team made its 2023-24 debut Saturday evening.

And, despite falling behind by as many as five points late in the first half, the host St. John Bosco High club was able to pull away from Long Beach Poly, 71-61, in one of eight games in the Braves’ Varsity Tip-Off.

Coach Matt Dunn’s team outscored the visitors by 11 points in the third quarter then held-off the “big shot”-making ability of the Jackrabbits’ 6-foot-5 junior, Jovani Ruff, down the stretch.

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