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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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  RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Ca. – Three days after a double-overtime loss at St. John Bosco High to open Trinity League action, the Santa Margarita Eagles bounced back in a big way Friday night at home against Orange Lutheran.

   And providing much of that bounce in the 71-65 victory was the senior combination of Pacific 12 Conference-bound Jake Kyman and Max Agbonkpolo.

   Agbonkpolo (who signed with USC in November) scored 17 of his eventual 28 points in a first half that ended with the Eagles down just a point at intermission after trailing by as many 12 early in the second quarter.

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   LAGUNA NIGUEL – League play comes to the forefront in Southern California high school basketball this week.

   And, relative to the CIF Southern Section’s prospect eight-team Open Division playoff field, that’s most notable relative to the four strongest leagues in the section: The Baseline, Ivy, Mission and Trinity.

    In key matchups this week:

   *Baseline: Damien (No. 9 in the BurlisonOnBasketball updated Southern California Top 25) plays at No. 10 Chino Hills Friday night;

  *Ivy: No. 15 Riverside Notre Dame plays host to No.

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   REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – The Sacramento Sheldon High boys’ basketball squad represented the northern portion of California quite well Saturday night at Redondo Union High in the finale of the eight games played Saturday during the second and final day of the sixth Take Flight Challenge.

  The Huskies were in control pretty much the entire game while knocking off Bishop Montgomery (No. 6 in last week’s BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25), 63-57, after leading by as many as 16 points in the second half.

   There was a brutal portion of the game, however, as the Huskies’ 6-foot-11 Joshua Morgan (who signed with Long Beach State in November), suffered an injury to his left leg while setting a screen with 5:46 to go in the second quarter and his team up by a point.

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The No.’s 3- and 18-ranked teams in the BurlisonOnBasketball Top 25 will play in the 8 o’clock finale in the six-game Westchester High Challenge Saturday on the Comets’ campus.

   The Comets improved to 13-1 and the No. 18 Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits to 12-3, respectively, with wins at the Take Flight Challenge at Redondo High Friday night.

   Westchester (led by Jordan Brinson, all-L.A. City as a junior) and Poly have a couple of the very best backcourts in the west.

   Brinson (pictured) and the Jackrabbits’ Justin Rene were the Most Valuable Players in tournaments in South Carolina and Arkansas last week.

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