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LAS VEGAS – Terrific backcourt play . . .

That tidily sums up my observations of Sunday’s first night of the 22^nd Pangos All-American Camp at Bishop Gorman High.

Brayden Burries (Roosevelt High in Eastvale in SoCal) and Jerry Easter (Toledo by way of La Lumiere Prep in La Porte, IN) – among the early front-runners for spots on the 2025 McDonald’s All-American team – were the lynchpins to eased-up wins by Notre Dame and Illinois, respectively, in the first round of game action.

The Notre Dame (82-69 vs.

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LAS VEGAS –  Sixteen Southern California-based boys’ basketball players are among the near-100 players listed on the roster for the 2024 Pangos All-American Camp, set to tip off later Sunday evening at Bishop Gorman High.

Among those players are a trio from Roosevelt in Eastvale in SoCal Junior of the Year Brayden Burries and classmates Issac Williamson and Myles Walker.

The Mustangs were 31-4 last season, with losses to eventual State Open champion Harvard-Westlake in the CIF Southern Section and State Southern Region Open title games.

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SAN GABRIEL – Kevin McCloskey, whose teams won CIF Southern Section titles in 2014 and ’23, is stepping down as the boys’ basketball coach and athletic director at San Gabriel Academy – effective Aug. 1 – he said Tuesday night.

McCloskey, who said he will go to work helping lead a “small financial company” when his duties at SGA are completed, coached his 13 teams to a cumulative 252-121 mark. During that stretch, he coached three CIF SS Players of the Year and 13 all-state selections.

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NORWALK – A couple of Trinity League high school foes turned in impressive efforts for The Arizona Unity/EBYL 17s squad Friday night during one of four showcase games played at Cerritos College during the EHA x MADE Hoops West Mania.

Brandon McCoy Jr. – who helped lead near-by St. John Bosco to a CIF State Division I title in March – scored 17 points and senior-to-be Dallas Washington (Santa Margarita) added a game-high 21 to lead Unity past Jalen Green Elite (which pays on the adidas spring and summer circuit), 71-64.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Trent Perry and David Rebibo of Harvard-Westlake bagged the last of the 2023-24 BurlisonOnBasketball.com SoCal boys’ basketball honors.

The 6-foot-4 Perry is the SoCal Senior of the Year after leading the Wolverines to a second consecutive State Open Division championship with their 50-45 win over Richmond Salesian in Sacramento on March 9.

Rebibo was the easy choice as the Coach of the Year, after his team’s State, Regional and Sectional championship victory – among the team’s 33-3 finish – improved his overall record (including a six-season stint at El Camino Real) to 337-129 in 15 seasons.

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