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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – If their preseason ratings and Monday night performances are the best indicators, then it would appear inevitable that the Etiwanda and Rancho Cucamonga boys’ basketball teams will meet in the championship game of the Inland Empire Tournament Saturday night.

And, if their on-court history is another solid barometer, one of those teams would seem to have reason to feel confident about its chances in that projected final.

Some 75 minutes or so after host Rancho Cucamonga improved to 5-0 with its eased-up, 97-46 win against Victor Valley, Etiwanda wrapped up the four-game “non- bracketed schedule” played Monday as part of the IE tourney in the same systematic fashion against Redlands East Valley, 74-27.

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DUBLIN, Ca. – All the offensive possibilities imagined by many when Caleb Foster and Mercy Miller left Virginia’s Oak Hill Academy and headed to the San Fernando Valley early in the spring were embodied on the Dublin High court Saturday night.

Foster and Miller joined another one of the most gifted high school players anywhere, Dusty Stromer, when they checked into Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks.

And that trio and the rest of the Knights showed why they’re capable of scoring a lot of points – and in a hurry – regardless of the caliber of competition while rolling past Northern California’s top team, Modesto Christian, 98-72, in the last of the eight games played during the 15^th annual NorCal Tip-Off Classic.

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OAKLAND – The top-ranked team from Northern California hooked up against one of the four best teams from the Las Vegas area Friday night during the debut of Bishop O’Dowd High’s spiffy new Knauss Gymnasium and Steve Phelps Court.

Ring up another testimony to just how good high school basketball is in Las Vegas and near-by Henderson these days.

Coronado (from Henderson and one of those four quality programs) High had the best player on the floor during any of the four games played Friday during the first of the two-day Thanksgiving Challenge.

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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – The host JSerra Lions wrapped up the four-game, inaugural SoCal Challenge High School Tip-Off Saturday event by holding off San Diego Torrey Pines, 56-48.

Juniors Aidan Fowler (23 points and three assists) and Sebastian Rancik (12 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots) led the way as the Lions improved to 3-0 after also beating a couple of teams in El Paso earlier in the week.

Another Trinity League member, St. John Bosco, opened things Saturday afternoon by easing past Sacramento Capital Christian, 67-52.

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FULLERTON – The Anaheim Canyon and Eastvale Roosevelt boys’ basketball team collected semifinal victories Friday to move into the Saturday night (7:30) “Rumble for Rosecrans” championship game at Sunny Hills High.

Canyon improved to 4-0 with its eased-up, 52-40 victory against Rolling Hills Prep in a game played at Fullerton High.

Six-four sophomore Brandon Benjamin – likely the most skilled and toughest “undersized” center in Southern California – led Nate Harrison’s team with 15 points, 10 rebounds and two assists.

Six-seven junior Jaden Goodall, one of the “purest” deep jump shooters in the region, hit four 3s enroute to an 18-point effort.

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