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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – Monday’s opening action in the 67^th Ryse Williams/Pac Shores Tournament set the stage for some compelling – and surprising – Wednesday quarterfinals at Redondo Union High.

Top seeds Bishop Montgomery (76-36 over South Gate South East) and Fairfax (68-41 over Peninsula) – ranked No.’s 4 and 5, respectively, in the BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 25 – busted into the second round without much fuss or muss.

Junior forward Ziaire Williams went for 25 points as No. 12 Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks) pulled away from Rolling Hills Prep, 57-43 (overcoming a 9-1 deficit), and No.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – With the start of the 2018-19 season officially tipping off Monday, Sierra Canyon – with four returning starters and some tall and gifted newcomers – opens as the favorite to defend its 2018 State Open Division championship.

Cassius Stanley (PICTURED) is joined by fellow seniors Scotty Pippen Jr. and Kenyon Martin Jr., along with junior Terren Frank, as returning starters with only Duane Washington (now at Ohio State) having departed from the squad that had post-season wins over Bishop Montgomery (twice), Rancho Christian and Etiwanda before toppling Sacramento Sheldon in the state finale.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – Four fall weekends in Westminster (CA), Dallas, Chicago and Thorofare (NJ) produced four Pangos All-regional Frosh/Soph Camps which, combined, attracted some of the very best players from the Classes of 2021 and ’22 (and a smattering of eighth graders, as well).

I attended each of the West, South, Midwest and East sessions and wrote about each of them on the evening they ended.

Here are my thoughts on the players in those events collectively, beginning with the freshmen (Class of 2022 .

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WEST DEPTFORD, NJ – The two best “big” prospects in the camp turned in terrific performances Sunday afternoon in a deliriously entertaining Top 30 Crème of the Crop All-Star Game to wrap up the Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph Camp at the RiverWinds Center in this Philadelphia suburb.

And, appropriately enough, 6-foot-10 Micawber Etienne – who dominated the competition from the moment he stepped onto the floor for his camp team “Georgetown” Saturday afternoon – scored the Top 30 game-winning bucket for the black jersey-wearing squad in a two-overtime, 87-85 decision over its white jersey-clad counterpart.

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WEST DEPTFORD, NJ – The last stop on the Pangos “All Frosh/Soph Camp” tour got off to a dazzling start Saturday, with multiple standouts from the Classes of 2021 and ’22 in the “All-East” portion of the tour at the Riverwinds Community Center.

Among those were a couple of 6-foot-8 sophomores who came into the camp already loaded with Class of 2021 national kudos in Jonathan Kuminga (who is attending Our Savior American in New York after playing for Huntington Prep in West Virginia as a freshman) and Trey Patterson of Rutgers Prep in New Jersey.

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