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REDONDO BEACH – The JSerra Lions overcame Goodyear (AZ) Millennium’s 15 3-point baskets, and a 14-point, first-half deficit, to dig out a 63-61 victory Friday night during Day I of the Jordan Brand/Take Flight Challenge at Redondo Union High,

Seven games were played Friday – four in the school’s main gymnasium and the others in its spacious auxiliary gym.

Action resumes Saturday morning 9 o’clock (with a girls’ game between Crossroads and Narbonne in the aux gym) and 9:30 (St. Monica vs. Legacy Christian in a boys game in the main gym).

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REDONDO BEACH – Harvard-Westlake and Redondo Union’s forceful victories, and Mayfair’s championship win over St. Monica, highlighted Thursday’s final day of the Ryse Williams/PAC Shores boys basketball event.

There’s two more days of high-caliber high school basketball set to tip off Friday afternoon (3:30) at Redondo Union High, via the 23-game Jordan Brand Take Flight Challenge/Powered by Morgan Stanley.

Action begins with the Serra vs. Palos Verdes clash in the school’s auxiliary gymnasium, with play starting at 4 o’clock in the main gym with two other South Bay-based foes, Rolling Hills Prep and St.

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REDONDO BEACH  – Two San Fernando Valley-based high school boys’ basketball teams scored impressive wins over quality competition Wednesday night during Day III of the Ryse Williams/PAC Shores at Redondo Union High.

Heritage Christian of Northridge improved to 6-0 by knocking off Bishop Montgomery (5-1), 68-56.

And Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth (5-1) cruised past Long Beach Poly (3-2), 74-40.

In an earlier game, St. Monica (7-1) eased past Millikan (3-3), 62-51.

The Mariners will play Mayfair (4-1) at 8:30 Thursday night in Redondo’s main gymnasium in the bracket championship portion of the four-day event.

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REDONDO BEACH – The Westchester High boys’ basketball team seemed to be well on the way to its first victory Tuesday night at Redondo Union High.

And it appeared as if win No. 1 – after a zip-3 start – was going to be of the decisive variety.

But the 21-point advantage the Comets took into the fourth quarter of its Ryse Williams/PAC Shores contest proved to be just enough cushion to secure a 74-72 decision against The Brentwood School.

Six-foot-eight junior Tajh Ariza scored 12 points in the third quarter – with three of his teammates knocking in 3s in the stanza – as the Comets, after consecutive losses to San Fernando Valley-based Chatsworth, Crespi and Harvard-Westlake, finally demonstrated why they were the consensus preseason choice to be the best team in the Los Angeles City Section.

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REDONDO BEACH – The Bishop Montgomery High boys’ basketball program may still be a year away from being a strong contender for a slot in the CIF Southern Section’s Open Division playoffs.

But Coach Doug Mitchell’s club, a bit more than two weeks into the 2024-25, campaign have demonstrated that they’ve made considerable progress over last season.

The Knights got strong contributions from multiple players – notably twin sophomore forwards Tarron (19 points and eight rebounds) and Terron (11 and six) Williams – to pull away from Leuzinger, 57-48, Monday night at Redondo Union High in one of the opening games of the four-day, Ryse Williams PAC Shores.

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