Frank Burlison

REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – The 16-team Redondo High Basketball Summer Classic gets underway Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock and wraps up Sunday afternoon at 3:40 with the championship game.

Among the squads joining the host Sea Hawks in the four “pools” of the event are defending State Division IV champion Torrance Bishop Montgomery; Southern Section 1AA champion Long Beach Poly; 2AA Southern Section champion Anaheim Canyon; and Southern Section “Open entrants” Bellflower St. John Bosco (which won the State Division II crown last spring) Compton and Montebello Cantwell.

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LOS ANGELES – Day V of the 28^th Nike Fairfax Summer Basketball Classic will culminate in the championship semifinals on Friday evening.

Chino Hills, led by Class of 2016 standout Lonzo Ball (who has scored 45 and 43 points, respectively, in his team’s first two wins over Harvard-Westlake and Lawndale), takes on Chatsworth Sierra Canyon in the first semifinal at 6 o’clock.

Coach Ty Nichols has a roster littered with gifted prospects in the Classes of 2016 (point guard Devearl Ramsey), ’17 (posts Cody Riley and Ira Lee, and wings Adam Seiko and Terence McBride) and even ’18 (wings Michael Feinberg and Cassius Stanley).

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LONG BEACH, Ca. – A memorial service will be held Sunday afternoon (June 15) at Long Beach City College for Bill Fraser, one of most respected and revered basketball coaches in Southern California.

Fraser, who passed away on April 16 at age 85, began his coaching career as the junior varsity coach at Long Beach Wilson High in 1958 and enjoyed immense success as the school’s varsity coach and then head man at Long Beach City College (from 1973 until his retirement in 1990).

During his stint at LBCC the Vikings won a state championship (in 1976) and advanced to the state championship Final Four five other times.

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SANTA ANA, Ca. – The Mater Dei High basketball program will play host to an 81-game tournament this weekend – with games spread over three courts in the school’s Meruelo Center.

Among the program joining the Monarchs in the event (which gets underway with three games tipping off at 3:30 Friday afternoon and then wraps up with three more games at 8:45 Sunday night) Bellflower St. John Bosco, Corona Centennial, Redondo Beach Redondo, Santa Margarita, L.A. Fairfax, Chatsworth Sierra Canyon and Anaheim Canyon.

Six programs that participated in the first-ever CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs – Mater Dei, St.

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LONG BEACH, Ca. – The 12^th edition of the Pangos All-American Camp is a wrap.

From my respective, at least, it didn’t take the full four sessions of camp games – and the two all-star games – to determine who the two best players were from among the 120 or so who participated during the weekend event at Cabrillo High.

By Saturday afternoon it was clear that the best backcourt player at the camp was Isaiah Briscoe (Roselle, NJ, Catholic) and the best post player was Stephen Zimmerman (Las Vegas Bishop Gorman).

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