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Boys' basketball: John R. Wooden Award names high school players of the year

The John R. Wooden Award Committee announced its high school basketball players of the year on Wednesday. In the City Section, Keith Fisher of Westchester received the player of the year award. The Southern Section award winners: Lonzo Ball, Chino Hills (Division I); John Edgar, Chino HIlls (Division...

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  • Roosevelt knocks out Fairfax in double-overtime thriller

    Roosevelt knocks out Fairfax in double-overtime thriller

    It's the year of the guard in high school basketball, and Wednesday night's double-overtime thriller between Fairfax and Eastvale Roosevelt on the opening night of the state playoffs only validated the quality and quantity of the guard play in Southern California this season. Freshman Ethan Anderson...

  • High school baseball top 25 rankings

    High school baseball top 25 rankings

    Ranking the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland: Rank, School (W-L), Comment (last week's ranking)1 JSERRA (2-0) - Pitching is holding up so far. (3)2 HARVARD-WESTLAKE (4-0) - Jake Suddleson proving to be a top hitter. (7)3 DAMIEN (2-0) - Sophomore Andrew Garriola off to fast hitting...

  • The idea of challenging high school basketball's best seems to be catching on

    The idea of challenging high school basketball's best seems to be catching on

    There's a positive trend in high school sports that should be embraced by coaches, players and parents. In 2014, when the Southern Section created the Open Division in prep basketball, putting together the best 16 teams regardless of enrollment, there was speculation that teams might lose games...

  • Palisades rolls to another City Section crown

    Palisades rolls to another City Section crown

    For a program that thrives on competition, Palisades certainly didn't get much in this year's City Section girls' playoffs. The Dolphins completed an impressive postseason with a 65-44 blowout of Woodland Hills El Camino Real to repeat as Open Division champions Saturday at Cal State Dominguez...

  • Chino Hills defeats Sierra Canyon, 105-83, for first section title

    Chino Hills defeats Sierra Canyon, 105-83, for first section title

    Early in the first quarter of Saturday's Southern Section Open Division championship game at Honda Center, Chino Hills students started throwing around beach balls and a plastic green alligator in the seating area while their No. 1-ranked basketball team began to dismantle another opponent. Even...

  • Westchester earns Open title with win over Narbonne, 51-42

    Westchester earns Open title with win over Narbonne, 51-42

    Every win is sweet, but Saturday night's victory over Harbor City Narbonne had to taste just a little sweeter for Westchester Coach Ed Azzam. The top-seeded Comets captured their 13th City Section championship — and first in the Open Division — with a 51-42 triumph at Cal State Dominguez Hills,...

  • Jonah Mathews leads Santa Monica to Southern Section 1A boys' basketball title

    Jonah Mathews leads Santa Monica to Southern Section 1A boys' basketball title

    Jonah Mathews was a freshman on Santa Monica High's 1A championship basketball team in 2013. He watched his older brother, Jordan, bask in the glow of leading the Vikings to the title. The next season, he remembers what Coach James Hecht told him. "How do you want to be remembered?" Now a senior,...

  • Bernstein leaves Venice worse for wear in City Division II title game

    Bernstein leaves Venice worse for wear in City Division II title game

    The City Section Division II championship boys' basketball game began Friday night with Bernstein High being assessed a technical foul for wearing illegal uniforms. They have a dragon on the back, in violation of the national federation rules. Venice also would have been called for a technical...

  • Chino Hills brings the best basketball entertainment in Southern California

    Chino Hills brings the best basketball entertainment in Southern California

    These are unprecedented times at Chino Hills High School, home to the No. 1-ranked basketball team in America. Games are selling out faster than a Taylor Swift concert. The 30-0 Huskies, led by the Ball brothers, have become so popular that the school receptionist, Lucy Meneses, said she has been...

  • High school basketball championships schedule

    High school basketball championships schedule

    HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS City Section Wednesday, at North Hollywood High Girls' Division V: No. 5 Community Charter vs. No. 2 Academia Avance, 5 p.m. Boys' Division V: No. 2 Middle College vs. No. 1 Central City Value, 7 p.m. Thursday at Roybal Girls' Division IV: No. 9 Northridge vs....

  • Chino Hills-Sierra Canyon matchup highlights prep basketball title games

    Chino Hills-Sierra Canyon matchup highlights prep basketball title games

    It's championship week in high school basketball, and the Southern Section is feeling pretty good about its lineup for Saturday at Honda Center that will feature the Open Division boys' final between the nation's No. 1-ranked team, Chino Hills (30-0), and Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (26-3) at 6:30...

  • Narbonne topples Fairfax to reach first City Section Open Division final

    Narbonne topples Fairfax to reach first City Section Open Division final

    Harbor City Narbonne basketball Coach Anthony Hilliard is always smiling while wearing a suit and tie at games. Nothing seems to faze him, even when seemingly half of his team was busy playing for the state champion football team. He knew those players eventually would return, get into basketball...

  • Ball brothers lead Chino Hills' 102-54 rout of Mater Dei

    Ball brothers lead Chino Hills' 102-54 rout of Mater Dei

    Gary McKnight, the winningest high school basketball coach in California history, was standing on the sideline Friday night with his arms crossed in a frozen stance watching the onslaught taking place before his eyes. His 22-time Southern Section champion Santa Ana Mater Dei team was being dismantled...

  • Are overbearing parents ruining the Westlake baseball program?

    Are overbearing parents ruining the Westlake baseball program?

    In Westlake Village, where the median home price is $930,400, there has been a saga taking place at the local high school that has lasted seemingly as long as some TV soap operas. It keeps producing story lines that make outsiders cringe in disbelief and laugh in amusement. It was 1985 when Mike...

  • Bishop Montgomery outlasts Damien, 58-56, in overtime

    Bishop Montgomery outlasts Damien, 58-56, in overtime

    There are playoff thrillers in basketball and then there was Tuesday night's Southern Section Open Division quarterfinal boys' game between Torrance Bishop Montgomery and La Verne Damien. The game wasn't decided until a three-point basket by sophomore David Singleton with 2.7 seconds left in overtime...

  • High school baseball rankings

    High school baseball rankings

    Ranking the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland: Rank, TEAM, Comment 1. HUNTINGTON BEACH: Defending Division 1 champions loaded with talent. 2. ORANGE LUTHERAN: Best pitching staff in Trinity League. 3. JSERRA: Chase Strumpf, Brady Shockey, Royce Lewis are impressive trio. 4. SOUTH...

  • High school baseball players to watch in 2016

    High school baseball players to watch in 2016

    Impact baseball players Pitcher Hagen Danner; Huntington Beach; Jr.; Top returning pitcher in Orange County Kevin Gowdy; Santa Barbara; Sr.; UCLA signee can be best in SoCal¿ Hunter Greene; SO Notre Dame; Jr.; 16-year-old is throwing in low 90s Others James Acuna; Cypress; Sr.; Oregon signee is...

  • Chaminade's Blake Rutherford will be the center of attention on the baseball field, with good reason

    Chaminade's Blake Rutherford will be the center of attention on the baseball field, with good reason

    Standing in the West Hills Chaminade High batting cage protected by a net with a video camera pointed directly at Blake Rutherford, you'd think nothing perilous could happen. Suddenly, a microphone resting against the net was struck by a ball whacked by Rutherford and went flying. It was like a...

  • Like father, like son: Lafayette Dorsey Jr. stars for Dons in win over Taft

    Like father, like son: Lafayette Dorsey Jr. stars for Dons in win over Taft

    Back in 1986, the year Stevie Thompson was leading Crenshaw High to City Section basketball dominance, there was an All-City guard, Lafayette Dorsey, playing for the Dorsey Dons. Thirty years later, his son, Lafayette Dorsey Jr, is on his way to earning All-City honors and has the Dons one victory...

  • Redondo squeaks by Eastvale Roosevelt, 56-54, in Open Division playoffs opener

    Redondo squeaks by Eastvale Roosevelt, 56-54, in Open Division playoffs opener

    On the opening night of the Southern Section Open Division boys' basketball playoffs, there was little doubt the matchup of No. 6-seeded Redondo against No. 11-seeded Eastvale Roosevelt was going to be decided by a final shot on Friday night. And it happened. Down by two points with 3.7 seconds...

  • A role model for versatility on the court

    A role model for versatility on the court

    In this era of social media, private coaches and travel teams ad nauseam, it's hard for a talented eighth-grade basketball player to enter high school without someone screaming, "He's the next LeBron." De'Anthony Melton escaped the onslaught of expectations and hype, perhaps because he was more...

  • The Times' boys' basketball rankings

    The Times' boys' basketball rankings

    A look at the top 25 high school boys' basketball teams in the Southland: Rk. School (W-L) Next (last week's ranking) 1. CHINO HILLS (27-0) vs. Santa Margarita, Friday (1) 2. BISHOP MONTGOMERY (24-1) vs. Orange Lutheran, Friday (2) 3. SIERRA CANYON (23-3) vs. Los Alamitos, Friday (3) 4. MATER DEI...

  • Outstanding L.A. Cathedral boys' soccer team knows how to have fun

    Outstanding L.A. Cathedral boys' soccer team knows how to have fun

    Football is usually considered bigger than futbol on high school campuses in the U.S., but don't tell that to the players and fans of L.A. Cathedral, home to the No. 1 boys' soccer team in California. Either everyone has been watching too many English Premier League games on television or the players...

  • Westchester is top-seeded in City Section Open Division boys' basketball playoffs

    Westchester is top-seeded in City Section Open Division boys' basketball playoffs

    Westchester received the No. 1 seed on Saturday for the City Section Open Division boys' basketball playoffs that begin next Saturday, and parity might be the appropriate word to describe the eight-team field. "The City is deeper than it's been in a long time," Westchester Coach Ed Azzam said. ...

  • Freshman Ethan Anderson sparks Fairfax over Westchester, 47-43

    Freshman Ethan Anderson sparks Fairfax over Westchester, 47-43

    Ethan Anderson of Los Angeles Fairfax started the basketball season as a wide-eyed freshman. He's ending it as an experienced guard the Lions can count on in pressure situations. In a sold-out Westchester High gym and just one week before the City Section playoffs begin, Anderson delivered 12 clutch...

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