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REDONDO BEACH — Redondo Union High will play host to Saturday and Sunday’s boys’ basketball Take Flight Challenge, with 25 varsity and lower-level games scheduled for the school’s two gymnasiums.

Four programs that participated in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs last season — eventual state Open (Harvard-Westlake) and Division I (Sherman Oaks Notre Dame) championships, joined by St. Bernard and Bishop Montgomery) are part of the weekend field.

Also in the field is CIF SS D-5AA champion Bosco Tech, which opens action Saturday morning at 9 o’clock against Notre Dame.

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LAS VEGAS – Many of the nation’s high school and prep school basketballs stars were in alignment over the past weekend during The Border League.

And — as anticipated —the largest constellation shined ever-so-brightly for Florida-based, prep school powerhouse Montverde Academy.

Sunday night the Eagles blasted to a 16-point advantage at intermission then withstood a Boozer-brother led rally and held off Miami’s Columbus High, 83-77, at Bishop Gorman High for the championship of the eight-team, GEICO Top Flight Invitational division.

The division also included four other “traditional high school” programs in Bishop Gorman, Coronado (in near-by Henderson), SoCal powerhouse Harvard-Westlake and Arlington (VA) O’Connell, along with two other prep-school powers in Napa (CA) Prolific Prep and Chandler (AZ) Compass Prep.

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LAS VEGAS — Championships in seven of the events nine divisions — and showcase games in the other two — are on tap for Sunday’s final day of The Border League at Bishop Gorman and other sites within an 18-or so-mile radius of the campus.

Of course, all the games since Friday’s action began have been showcases:

No. 1,  for the teams’ coaches, to give them an idea of what they need to improve upon and polish as the real season rapidly approaches.

No. 2, for a lot of college coaches to evaluate the players involved and — often — to be seen by a lot of those players as a remainder to the kids that they think enough of them to how much those coaches’ programs want to sign them to letters of intent next month, and finally:

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LAS VEGAS — The collective four-best boys’ basketball players in the Classes of 2024, ’25 and ’26 will be on the same court over a three-hour period Saturday evening at Bishop Gorman High.

The championship semifinals of The Border League will be played at 4:30 (Napa, CA, Prolific Prep vs. Miami Columbus) and 6:15 (Montverde, FL, Prep vs. Chandler, AZ, Compass Prep), respectively, on the school’s main gymnasium floor.

Montverde (aka in this event, “The Florida Eagles) starts a lineup of strong candidates for the 2024 McDonald’s All-American team, including center Derik Queen (originally from the Baltimore area), forward Liam McNeeley (by way of the Dallas metro area) and point guard Rob Wright (Philadelphia).

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LONG BEACH — St. John Bosco High sophomore Brandon McCoy Jr. capped a superb two days of action Sunday afternoon, scoring 25 points to pace the white jerseys to a 120-115 victory in the Top 25 Cream of the Crop all-star game that wrapped up the 20^th Pangos All-West Frosh/Soph Camp at McBride High.

That performance probably was the final nudge that gave him the camp’s overall Most Outstanding Player designation over Tyran Stokes (Napa Prolific Prep), a camp teammate — “San Jose State” — cohort from the USA 16U team last summer.

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