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NORWALK, Ca. – Here are some potentially compelling individual match-ups in Saturday’s seven-game, Rolling Hills Prep/Scorebook Live State Preview at Cerritos Community College:

12:30 p.m., Fresno State-bound Anthony Holland (Notre Dame-Riverside) vs. unsigned Braelee Albert (Brentwood School): Albert (PICTURED) and Holland are both very strong and competitive “inside-outside” players who led their respective programs to CIF Southern Section titles last March.

2, Cal State Fullerton signee Tory San Antonio (Rancho Verde) vs. Santa Clara-committed Giordan Williams (Long Beach Poly): Each player is trying to get them respective team into the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoff field.

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  NORWALK, Ca. – Seven teams in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 25 are among the 14 squads participating in the Rolling Hills Prep/Scorebook Live State Preview Saturday at Cerritos Community College.

  The highest-rated of those seven squads is No. 6 Santa Ana Mater Dei, which will take on No. 23 Camarillo, which is led by UCLA-bound Jaime Jaquez Jr. (PICTURED)

  The Monarchs (21-1), who travel to Bellflower to play No. 13 St. John Bosco in a key Trinity League game Friday night, start three sophomores and two juniors.

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  RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – The Mater Dei High boys’ basketball team took a significant step to the program’s 31^st consecutive league championship Wednesday night.

   The Monarchs held a three-point advantage early in the third quarter before going on to dominate the Trinity League contest at both ends of the floor the rest of the way to leave the Santa Margarita gymnasium with a 76-57 victory.

  Coach Gary McKnight’s squad, No. 6 in the BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25, improved to 21-1 overall and 3-zip in league with another Trinity contest on tap in Bellflower Friday night against No.

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  LOS ANGELES – The Sierra Canyon High boys’ basketball team may not have been quite as sharp Tuesday night as it will need to be to repeat as the state’s Open Division champion.

   But the top-ranked Trail Blazers (in the BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25) had more than enough pep in their tank to toppled Southern California’s No. 22 squad – host Windward – by 20 points.

   Coach Andre Chevalier’s crew improved to 20-1 with its 77-57 victory.

   It visits Santa Monica to take on Crossroads on Friday night then boards a jetliner for Springfield, MA and a Monday afternoon game against Montverde Academy of Florida, which saddled Sierra Canyon with its only defeat (57-49 on Dec.

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   LAGUNA NIGUEL – The strike by the L.A. Unified School District’s teachers’ guild means that the next chapter in the biggest rivalry in Southern California high school hoops is going to be postponed for a while.

   Westchester and Fairfax, No.’s 2 and 5, respectively, in the latest BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 25, were slated to play in a Western League game at Fairfax Friday night.

   But, while the first strike of the LAUSD’s teachers’ guild in 30 years is on-going, L.A. City athletic teams are not permitted to play or practice (under the direction of their coaches).

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