Frank Burlison

REDONDO BEACH – The Campbell Hall, Beverly Hills, Windward and Harvard-Westlake boys basketball teams all picked up victories on Tuesday’s first day of the Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Showcase at Redondo High – the alma mater of the late and great Williams.

Harvard-Westlake (No. 2 in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal ratings) closed the first night out by improving to 6-0 with its 83-40 victory over Long Beach St. Anthony.

Campbell Hall went to 3-0 in the first game while knocking off Inglewood, 76-59.

In the most compelling – aka, “tight” – game played Tuesday, Beverly Hills held off Irvine Crean Lutheran, 69-68.

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REDONDO BEACH – Nationally ranked Harvard-Westlake headlines this week’s Ryse Williams/Pac Shores boys’ basketball tournament at Redondo Union High.

The 5-0 Wolverines (No. 2 in California behind Corona Centennial) will be in action three times at the event, beginning Tuesday night (8 o’clock) against Long Beach St. Anthony.

Coach David Rebibo’s club returns to Redondo Union for a Thursday night (7 o’clock) game with No. 30 San Gabriel Academy, then wraps up the week by taking on Rancho Christian Saturday night at 6.

Rancho Christian (ranked No.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – If their preseason ratings and Monday night performances are the best indicators, then it would appear inevitable that the Etiwanda and Rancho Cucamonga boys’ basketball teams will meet in the championship game of the Inland Empire Tournament Saturday night.

And, if their on-court history is another solid barometer, one of those teams would seem to have reason to feel confident about its chances in that projected final.

Some 75 minutes or so after host Rancho Cucamonga improved to 5-0 with its eased-up, 97-46 win against Victor Valley, Etiwanda wrapped up the four-game “non- bracketed schedule” played Monday as part of the IE tourney in the same systematic fashion against Redlands East Valley, 74-27.

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DUBLIN, Ca. – All the offensive possibilities imagined by many when Caleb Foster and Mercy Miller left Virginia’s Oak Hill Academy and headed to the San Fernando Valley early in the spring were embodied on the Dublin High court Saturday night.

Foster and Miller joined another one of the most gifted high school players anywhere, Dusty Stromer, when they checked into Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks.

And that trio and the rest of the Knights showed why they’re capable of scoring a lot of points – and in a hurry – regardless of the caliber of competition while rolling past Northern California’s top team, Modesto Christian, 98-72, in the last of the eight games played during the 15^th annual NorCal Tip-Off Classic.

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OAKLAND – The top-ranked team from Northern California hooked up against one of the four best teams from the Las Vegas area Friday night during the debut of Bishop O’Dowd High’s spiffy new Knauss Gymnasium and Steve Phelps Court.

Ring up another testimony to just how good high school basketball is in Las Vegas and near-by Henderson these days.

Coronado (from Henderson and one of those four quality programs) High had the best player on the floor during any of the four games played Friday during the first of the two-day Thanksgiving Challenge.

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