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  MISSION HILLS – The Loyola and Harvard-Westlake squads pushed through to semifinal wins Thursday night to advance to Friday night’s first-ever Mission League boys’ basketball tournament championship game at Alemany High.

  The Loyola Cubs advanced to 21-5 with their 61-60 win over Chaminade in the first of the Thursday night, with the Harvard-Westlake Wolverines (18-7) using a strong collective rebounding and defensive performance to pull away down the stretch against Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, 59-49.

  The championship game (scheduled to tip at 8 o’clock) is also set to be televised by KDOC (Channel 56 on DirecTV).

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  ETIWANDA, Ca. – Junior guards Camren Pierce and Darryl Jackson made a couple of critical plays down the stretch Wednesday night to help the Etiwanda High basketball team pull out a 58-56 victory over visiting Baseline League foe Damien, 58-56.

   It was the 13^th consecutive victory for the 24-2 Eagles (No. 7 in the BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25), who can collect their second 10-0 league mark in a row with a regular-season ending win at No. 12 and 15-9 Chino Hills Friday night.

   Coach David Kleckner’s team – which joined its crowd in celebrating “Senior Night” for its three seniors as well as the school’s cheer-leading squad members before the tip-off – fell behind by as many as 19 points (31-12) early in the second quarter against the No.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – The final week of regular-season boys’ basketball action in the Southern Southern Section has some significant match-ups on tap that figure to impact the respective make-ups of the section’s Open Division playoff field.

   Notable games in that regard in the Southern Section include:

   *Wednesday Trinity League finales of No. 9 Mater Dei (in the latest BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25) at home to No. 20 Orange Lutheran; No. 11 Santa Margarita at No. 23 JSerra; and No. 10 St. John Bosco at Servite.

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  SANTA ANA, Ca. – The host Mater Dei High Monarchs never was able to delivered a figurative knockout punch against its opponent from Rolling Hills Prep Friday night.

  But Coach Gary McKnight’s club was able to play just well enough at both ends of the floor to edge the Huskies, 57-51, in the final game of the first day of the 24^th Nike Extravaganza in the Meruelo Center.

   The Monarchs (No. 10 in the most recent BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25) got 18 points from sophomore guard Devin Askew and 10 apiece from his classmates, posts Wilhelm Breidenbach (who grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds) and Nick Davidson, to improve to 23-3 with another Nike X game on tap vs.

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  RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Ca. – As far as “back-handed compliments” go, this one is world-class:

  “Is there a better eight-loss boys basketball team anywhere than the Santa Margarita High Eagles?”

  That question begged to be asked Thursday night, after Coach Jeff Reinert’s team stunned Las Vegas Bishop Gorman – arguably the best team in the west – 63-60 at Santa Margarita High.

   Coach Grant Rice’s Bishop Gorman Gaels, who face another SoCal team (Chino Hills) Saturday night in the 24^th Nike Extravaganza.

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