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LOS ANGELES – Strong Friday night semifinal efforts propelled the Mater Dei and Sierra Canyon squads to Saturday’s 6 p.m. championship game of the 32^nd Fairfax Summer Classic.

Sophomore point guard Devin Askew scored 24 points and dictated the tempo of the Monarchs’ 72-63 win against Sierra Canyon.

And spectacular senior-to-be Cassius Stanley dropped in 30 points as Sierra Canyon broke open what had been a tight affair late in the first half and then cruised in the second half to come away with an 81-51 dismantling of Taft – which could prove to be the best team in the L.A.

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LOS ANGELES – The defending California Open Division champion and three Southern Section titlists are among the 16 programs participating in the 32^nd Fairfax Summer Basketball Classic that runs Monday thru Saturday.

The top seed in the event is Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth, which is scheduled to return four starters from the squad that knocked off Etiwanda in the State Regional final and then toppled Sacramento Sheldon for the State Open crown last March.

Among those starters for the Coach Andre Chevalier’s Trailblazers, who face Altadena St.

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NEWPORT BEACH – The three-day Corona del Mar High Summer Varsity Boys Basketball Shootout tips off Friday afternoon.

Sixty-four games are set to be played in CDM’s two gyms and at the near-by Newport Coast Community Center (where seven games will be played on Saturday, beginning at 10:30 a.m.).

Among the programs scheduled to participate are Trinity League squads from Mater Dei, Santa Margarita, Orange Lutheran and Servite, as well as “non-Orange County” programs from Riverside Poly and Phoenix St. Mary’s.

Opening games on Friday (at 2 o’clock) have Capistrano Valley taking on Costa Mesa in the “big” gym and the host Sea Kings meeting Phoenix St.

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PASADENA – The championship “platinum” semifinals of the sixth Maranatha Summer Boys Basketball Block Party are set for Friday night at the host school.

Four of what are expected to be among the very best squads in Southern California for 2018-19 are set in the 7:30 and 8:30 matchups.

In the first clash, La Verne Damien takes on L.A. Fairfax, with Long Beach Poly and Studio City Harvard-Westlake to follow.

The likelihood of Damien landing into the CIF Southern Section’s eight-team Open Division playoff pool next February was greatly enhanced with the recent addition of transfer guard Jarred Hyder (pictured) from Cajon High.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Isaiah Mobley proved quite a prophet Saturday night in the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena.

“I like this team,” the senior-to-be from Rancho Christian High in the Southern California community of Temecula told an acquaintance just after the “76ers”, one of the 10 teams made up from the players in attendance at the National Basketball Players Association Top 100 Camp, had completed their first practice Wednesday morning.

“Watch – we’re going to win the championship.”

And that they did.

The 6-foot-9 Mobley and a deep and talented 76ers crew held off the Warriors, 78-70, in the finale to a cap an 8-1 run over four days, including Saturday morning and afternoon quarterfinal and semifinal decisions.

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