Frank Burlison

HAYWARD, Ca. – Cole Anderson’s clinching layup in the closing seconds secured the Class of 2021’s 117-113 victory over its 2022 counterpart Sunday evening at the Slam Academy during the NorCal Clash.

Anderson’s left-handed layup was set up by a steal and pass from 6-foot-9 DeMarshay Johnson (Richmond Salesian).

The 6-3 Anderson (Clovis West), who committed to UC Santa Barbara in the spring, continued to show why he may be as good a jump shooter as there is – not only in California but pretty much anywhere else, too, on the high school level.

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ST. GEORGE, UT – Day II of the Pangos Rocky Mountain Hoops Summit was more of the same:

End line-to-end line dominance by the Seattle-based Rotary program’s six teams here, and impressive play by one of the elite Class of 2022 post players, were on display in the Nets of Fire Sports Facility from early Saturday morning until almost Sunday morning.

Rotary’s top squad, the Black 17s, throttled two more Southern California-based teams (San Diego’s Border Boyz and Long Beach’s Belmont Shore) – 79-61 and 97-64, respectively.

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ST. GEORGE, UT – The Seattle-based Rotary Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) 17s squad had a chance to show what might have been Friday night at the Nets of Fire sports facility in the opening day of the Pangos Rocky Mountain Summit.

It has a roster built to challenge as the best on the Nike-fronted spring EYBL and come out atop during July’s Peach Jam championship. But the COVID-19 pandemic dashed those aspirations – and those of the rest of the EYBL’s 40 or so squads.

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CORONA, Ca. – One of the upper-tier grassroots programs in basketball puts it current and former players – as well as its stance on the multitude of social issues of our times – on display Saturday during the “Magic Bubble” event.

Five “pick-up games/scrimmages” were held, involving currents Compton Magic-affiliated players – notably Class of 2021 members Malik Thomas (Damien), Reese Dixon-Waters (St. Bernard) and Isa Silva (Jesuit in the Sacramento suburb of Carmichael) and superb sophomore-to-be Mikey Williams (San Diego San Ysidro) – as well as some notable “alumni”.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Seven Pacific 12 Conference-bound players are among the 31 BurlisonOnBasketball All-Southern California selections from the Class of 2020.

Notable among those are McDonald’s All-Americans B.J. Boston and Ziaire Williams (each from Sierra Canyon), Josh Christopher (Mayfair) and Evan Mobley (Sierra Canyon).

The college programs landing multiple all-2020 selections were Kentucky (Boston and Devin Askew), USC (Mobley and Boubacar Coulibaly), San Diego State (first-teamers Lamont Butler and Keith Dinwiddie) and UC Irvine (guards Andre Henry and D.J. Davis, first- and second-teamers, respectively).

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