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LAS VEGAS – There wasn’t anything on hand approaching the Big Ballers Frenzy that took over the Cashman Center and the adidas-fronted event way up on the northern side of town late Wednesday night.

All the Fab 48 Tip-Off Challenge, held at Bishop Gorman High down the southern region of the city from 5 to 11 p.m. or so, were 15 games featuring teams fronted by all the major sports apparel companies (Nike, Under Armour and adidas) and a whole lot of the very best high school basketball players in the country.

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WESTMINSTER, Ca. – A helping heaping of some of the very best high school guards from the Class of 2018 was on hand Wednesday – with a whole lot of coaches looking on – during the Baller.TV/Pangos Premier Showcase 80 at Westminster High.

The first day of the NCAA’s first week (out of three) of its July evaluation period was the reason coaches from all of the major conferences in the west – and all of those players who wanted to be seen by them, up close – showed up.

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CULVER CITY, Ca. – Los Angeles Westchester rallied from a 10-point deficit at intermission Sunday afternoon at Culver City High to knock off Bellflower St. John Bosco, 66-61, in the championship game of the first-ever Summer Take Flight Challenge.

The Braves took their 35-25 advantage at the via sizzling play of sophomore-to-be point guard Josh Camper (who scored 10 of his 15 points before intermission) and 6-foot-4, senior-to-be Alpha Okoli who scored eight points.

The strong post play of seniors-to-be Kaelin Allen and Maurice Tutt kept the Comets reasonably close to the Braves in the first half and helped them chip into their deficit after intermission while combining for 34 points for the game.

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CULVER CITY, Ca. – The first-ever Summer Take Flight Challenge boys’ basketball tournament tips off at Culver City High at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon and wraps up with a championship game set to get underway Sunday evening at 5:10.

Among the 16 schools represented in the event is Torrance Bishop Montgomery, whose Knights’ squad won the California State Open Division championship in March.

Among the others are Chatsworth Sierra Canyon, Woodland Hills Taft, Studio City Harvard-Westlake, Van Nuys, Santa Monica Crossroads and L.A. Westchester, all of which played in the State Southern Regionals last spring.

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LOS ANGELES – The 31^st Nike Fairfax Summer Classic tips off Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock with, as usual, many of Southern California’s top programs involved.

First-round action will be played with four games each on Monday and Tuesday, quarterfinals on Wednesday and Thursday, semifinals on Friday and final-day action on Saturday, wrapping up with the 6 o’clock championship game.

Mater Dei, paced by two-time all-CIF Southern Section selection and Harvard University-bound point guard Spencer Freedman and 7-foot-3 Bol Bol, is the top seed with host Fairfax, led by all-L.A.

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