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NORWALK – The tenth State Preview Saturday – now under the guidance of Rolling Hills Prep since Coach Harvey Kitani moved there from Fairfax High – gave a decent not-so-sneaky preview of some of the programs likely to make deep runs into the 2018 California State Championship Tournament.

The most notable those among the 16 teams on display at Cerritos College was, of course, defending State and Southern Section Open Division Champion Bishop Montgomery.

And nothing occurred during the Knights’ 60-43 takedown of L.A. City power Fairfax to even mildly begin to offer any doubt that Coach Doug Mitchell’s club is an iron-clad favorite to successful defend both of those crowns in March.

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DOWNEY – PMA Matchup Day II is set for Saturday at St. Pius-St. Mathias High in Downey.

Six boys’ basketball games will be played, beginning with the noon clash between the host school and Monroe and ending with the 7 o’clock contest pitting Serra and Fairmont Prep.

In a coupling of intriguing games, St. John Bosco faces Blair (coached by SJM alum Jelani Gardner) at 3 and JSerra takes on Cantwell-Sacred Heart at 6.

 

Complete schedule:

Noon, Monroe vs. St. Pius X-St. Matthias; 1:30 p.m.,

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LYNWOOD – The host Lynwood High Knights knocked off the Warren Bears, 68-62, in a Friday night showdown for a piece of first place in the San Gabriel Valley.

And Coach Jason Crowe’s Knights were able to avenge a Jan. 10 loss to Warren (70-63) although the Bears held Lynwood’s best players to seven points below the SGVL scoring average he took into Friday’s game.

Of course, 6-foot-9, 250-pound (give or take) junior Carl Lewis took a 45.0 ppg average over the team’s first five league games prior to the rematch with the Bears.

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NORWALK, Ca. – The defending CIF Southern Section and State Open championship program is among the 16 squads set to play in the Rolling Hills High State Preview, presented by ScorebookLive.com, Saturday at Cerritos College.

Bishop Montgomery (21-0 going into its Del Rey League game at Serra Friday evening) faces Fairfax (14-6 before its Western League game with University Friday night) at 7 o’clock in a game pitting the Southern Section’s top-ranked program and the L.A. City’s No. 2 squad.

The Knights – who needed a buzzer-beating 3-point to beat Cantwell Sacred-Heart Wednesday night – haven’t lost since dropping a 73-67 decision to Montverde (FL) Academy on Jan.

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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Ca. – The Mater Dei High Ivy League basketball duo aced its Trinity League test Wednesday night.

Point guard Spencer Freedman (bound for Harvard) scored a game-high 20 points, on seven of nine shooting from the field, to go with eight assists, six rebounds and three steals as the Monarchs turned in a near-impeccable performance at both ends of the floor while knocking off the host Santa Margarita Eagles, 67-49.

And teammate Michael Wang (a future University of Pennsylvania Quaker) chipped in with 17 points and four rebounds, 12 of those points coming by way of 3-pointers set up by Freedman dishes.

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