Ron Massey Classic: Cool battles on tap Saturday
NORWALK – The 6th Ron Massey Fall Hoops Classic offers some compelling early match-ups between some of best boys’ basketball teams and players, in Southern California and Las Vegas. Twelve games in the eight-team Challenge of Champions Bracket will be…
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Continue ReadingNORWALK – The 6th Ron Massey Fall Hoops Classic offers some compelling early match-ups between some of best boys’ basketball teams and players, in Southern California and Las Vegas.
Twelve games in the eight-team Challenge of Champions Bracket will be played Saturday evening and Sunday, with 18 “showcase” games involving other teams also scheduled for Cerritos College.
Three games will be played simultaneously, beginning at 5 Saturday evening, on the “main” and two sides courts.
Action resumes Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, with the final round of games – including the CCB finale – set to tip off at 2:50 p.m.
The CCB schedule for Saturday: 5, Bishop Montgomery vs. Taft; 6:10, Rancho Christian vs. Las Vegas Trinity International; 7:20, Las Vegas Bishop Gorman vs. Corona Centennial; 8:30, Mater Dei vs. Henderson (NV) Coronado.
Rancho Christian is led by 7-footer Evan Mobley (recently committed to USC), rated by many as the No. 1 prospect in the national Class of 2020.
Trinity has a future UCLA Bruin in one of the best point guards in the country, Daishen Nix.
A more likely “head to head match-up”, though, could take place when of the elite 2021 guards anywhere, Devin Askew (Mater Dei) and Jaden Hardy (Coronado) are on the floor at the same time Saturday evening.
One more cool “head-up” showdown could come when Westchester plays San Ysidro of San Diego on Court 1 (east side of gym) at 5 o’clock Saturday.
Westchester has one of the top scorers in the Class of 2021 in Santa Monica transfer T.J. Wainwright (who scored 65 points in two Pangos SoCal Fall Showcase last week in Long Beach) while San Ysidro counters with one of the nation’s most noteworthy freshmen in another guard, Mikey Williams.
Saturday’s Showcase Schedule (the CCB games are on the main/2 court):
Court 1: 5, San Ysidro vs. Westchester; 6:10, Long Beach St. Anthony vs. Rancho Verde; 7:20, Rolling Hills Prep vs. Fairmont Prep; 8:30, San Gabriel Academy vs. Eisenhower.
Court 3: 5, Fairmont Prep vs. Lynwood; 6:10, Compton vs. Newport Pacifica Christian; 7:20, Los Altos vs. St. Francis; 8:30, Gardena vs. Westminster.