Frank Burlison

SANTA ANA, Ca. – Seniors Kaden Minter and Gabriel Quiette split 16 of their team’s 21 fourth-quarter points to help the Mater Dei High boys’ basketball program maintain its dominance – but barely – over its counterpart from Santa Margarita Thursday night.

The host Monarchs, trailing by 15 points with a little more than a minute to go in the first half, got 16 third-quarter points from junior forward Zach Davidson and then used the Minter-Quiette Class of 2022 combo to catch and then hold off the Eagles, 61-58, in a Trinity League game.

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LONG BEACH, Ca. – Senior guard Jaayden Bush scored eight points of his game-high 22 points – and came up with a critical steal – to help the host St. Anthony High Saints toppled Bishop Montgomery, 52-47, Wednesday night in a Del Rey League clash on Darrick Martin Court in Jack Errion Memorial Gymnasium.

With the league’s schedule ripped asunder by COVID issues, the teams will have a “rematch” on Saturday at 6 o’clock on the Knights’ home court.

St. Anthony is scheduled to play at Cathedral in another Del Rey League clash Friday night.

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SANTA ANA, Ca. – Fifteen games – including a girls’ clash between the Mater Dei and Aliso Niguel squads Friday night at 7:30 – are on that this weekend during the 27^th Nike Boys Basketball Extravaganza in Mater Dei High’s Meruelo Athletic Center.

Games get underway Friday afternoon at 1:30, when Cerritos Valley Christian takes on Rancho Santa Margarita’s St Margaret’s. They wrap up Saturday night with the 9 o’clock tipoff between the top high school team in California, Corona Centennial, facing Henderson (NV) Coronado.

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ONTARIO, Ca. – Even when it’s short-handed – and playing against one of the top teams in Southern California – the Corona Centennial High boys’ basketball squad looks every bit capable of successfully defending its 2021 CIF Southern Section Open Division championship.

That was clearly the case Saturday night when the Huskies, despite playing without a 6-foot-9 junior that has hit 24 3s in his past five games (Devin Williams) and the 2021 co-Open Player of the Year for the second quarter (guard Donovan Dent), knocked off once-beat Irvine Crean Lutheran, 72-57, at Colony High in the final game of the State Preview Classic.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Ca. – The Etiwanda High boys’ basketball team took a big step toward making it the front-runner for the Baseline League title Friday night, while diving right back into the mix for a spot in the eight-team CIF Southern Section Open Division playoff field.

In a game in which neither team held an advantage larger than six points, the host Eagles knocked off the Damien Spartans, 45-39.

Etiwanda improved to 5-0 in league and 15-4 overall while the Spartans dropped to 3-1 and 21-2.

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