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The Gahr and Mayfair boys basketball teams will play for the CIF Southern Section II-A title Saturday night at 8 o'clock at the Anaheim Convention Center Arena.
The St. Anthony and Oaks Christian girls' squad will play for the IV-A crown Friday afternoon at 3:30 in the same building.
The winners of the boys I-AA semifinals in Anaheim Tuesday night (Mater Dei vs. Corona Centennial at 6:30 and Poly vs. Etiwanda at 8:14) play for the championship Saturday night at 6.
The Clippers have just publicly confirmed what has been speculated upon since very late Wednesday night:
Baron Davis is no longer a Clipper.
Davis, who grew up in Los Angeles and starred at The Crossroads School in Santa Monica and at UCLA, was dealt to Cleveland in exchange for another (younger) point guard, 28-year-old Maurice Williams and veteran forward Jamario Moon.
Also going to Cleveland is the Clippers' first pick in the June draft.
The CLippers are holding a press conference at their headquarters at 1 o'clock today.
Here are the locations for the CIF Southern Section boys' basketball playoff semifinals that are teams will be playing Friday night:
II-AA
Compton (21-9) vs. Ventura (27-2) at Ventura College
II-A
Peninsula (28-1) vs. Mayfair (24-5) at Cerritos High
Gahr (22-7) vs. Foothill (22-7) at Villa Park High
Note: Poly will face Etiwanda in a I-AA semifinal Tuesday in the Anaheim Convention Center Arena, The tip-off time will be determined by the Southern Section office on Thursday morning.
Here you go . . . after mixing and matching scores, here is the way the Tuesday quarterfinal action will in look for area boys' hoops teams, with all games set to tip off at 7 o'clock (check for updates).
I-AA
Poly (26-1) at Montebello (27-3)
I-A
Redlands East Valley (24-5) at Downey (26-2)
II-AA
Edison (26-2) at Compton (20-9)
II-A
Mayfair (23-5) at Moreno Valley Vista del Lago (14-11)
Gahr (21-7) at Riverside J.W. North (19-10)
III-A
Cerritos (17-12) at Harvard-Westlake (24-4)
Artesia (14-13) at Crespi (22-7)
IV-AA
St. John Bosco (21-8) at Atascadero (24-3)
There are 11 area boys' basketball teams that will be playing CIF Southern Section second-round games at home Friday, including all three squads from the Moore League -- Poly, Lakewood and Compton.
Here's the area schedule for Friday night (all games tip at 7), by division:
I-AA
Palmdale Knight at Poly
Corona Centennial at Los Alamitos
Eisenhower at Lakewood
I-A
Fountain Valley at Downey
II-AA
Temecula Valley at Compton
II-A
Mayfair at Esperanza
Ayala at Gahr
III-A
Cerritos at Calabasas
Rio Mesa at Artesia
IV-AA
Oak Park at St. John Bosco
Compton Centennial at Alemany
V-AA
Flintridge Prep at Whitney
V-A
St. Bernard at St. Anthony
VI-AA
Los Angeles Adventist at Avalon
Wednesday . . . 7 p.m. for first-round games
LOWER BRACKET
St. Anthony (#16 seed) at California Military
All games are tipping off at -- you guessed it! -- 7 p.m.:
UPPER BRACKET
St. Paul at Flintridge Prep (#1 seed)
Linfield Christian at Whitney (#16 seed)
Excelsior Education Center at Blair (#9 seed)
And the games just keep on coming! (all tipping off Wednesday/7 p.m.):
UPPER BRACKET
St. John Bosco (#4 seed) at Desert
LOWER BRACKET
Centennial (#15 seed) at Citrus Valley
On to the 3A . . . all games Wednesday/7 p.m.:
UPPER BRACKET
South Torrance at Cerritos (#9 seed)
LOWER BRACKET
Artesia at Palm Desert
There is just one area team in this division (games tips at 7 o'clock Wednesday night):
UPPER BRACKET
La Mirada at North Torrance (#8 seed)
Here you go . . . all games Wednesday/7 p.m.:
UPPER BRACKET
Westlake at Mayfair (#5 seed)
LOWER BRACKET
Norwalk at Camarillo
Indio at Gahr (#7 seed)
Here are the boys' hoops first-round games Wednesday night in the 2AA division (tipping off at 7 o'clock):
UPPER BRACKET
Compton (#4 seed) at Canyon Springs
Here are the area matchups for boys' first-round games in the 1A division . . . Wednesday, 7 p.m.:
UPPER BRACKET
Downey (#4 seed), has first-round bye, will play host Friday night to winner of Wednesday Fountain Valley at California game
LOWER BRACKET
Warren at Arroyo Valley
Here we go . . . from Los Alamitos High . . . area boys' basketball matchups in the CIF Southern Section's IAA division (all games Wednesday, 7 p.m.):
UPPER BRACKET
Corona Santiago at Poly (#1 seed)
Wilson at Etiwanda (#4 seed)
LOWER BRACKET
Lynwood at Los Alamitos
Lakewood at Thousand Oaks.
Second-round games will be played Friday night at 7 o'clock.
Junior Shabazz Muhammad scored 31 points and grabbed nine rebounds as Las Vegas Bishop Gorman handed Poly its first loss of the season, 58-53, in the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei High.
Read my game story in Sunday's Press-Telegram.
Poly is up on Bishop Gorman, 31-28, with 3:16 to go in the third quarter tonight at the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei High.
Poly was just four of 27 shooting in the first half but trailed by just a point.
Los Alamitos HIgh boys' basketball standout Camryn Crocker suffered a separated right shoulder during his team's Sunset League game against Marina Friday.
Crocker (19.3 points per game) is on the bench right now in street clothes for his team's Nike Extravaganza game at Mater Dei against Santa Margarita.
I'll try to get an update afterward.
