wss rosters

As noted in our last article, we got a press release and the full rosters for the inaugural Warehouse Shoe Sale Scholastic Hoops Jam basketball benefit which will be held on Saturday, May 1st at Los Angeles Southwest College. Some great players, and they are not calling it an "All-Star" game apparently because if it was considered as such it might affect player eligibility at the NCAA level. We've been assured by the organizers that everything is kosher and these guys know what they're doing, so we're not too worried about it either.

Here are the two underclass boys' rosters. Some pretty exciting players too, but clearly there's been a mistake and the organizers confused Rodney Anderson, a senior, with Devrin Anderson a junior, and the rosters we were supplied with had them switched. They'll probably straighten it out by game time. Here are the rosters:

City Section Underclass Boys (Los Angeles) Team

Southern Section Underclass Boys' Team

Edmund "EJ" Harris (6'-2" Jr. PG) Crenshaw
Tommie Johnson (6'-4" Jr. SG) Crenshaw
Evan Burns (6'-5" Fr. SF) Fairfax
Jason Morrissette (6'-4" Jr. SG/SF) Fairfax
Craig Smith (6'-6" So. F) Fairfax
Mario Roberts (6'-1" Jr. PG/SG) Manual Arts
Steve McMaryion (6'-4" Jr. SG/SF) Palisades
Rodney Anderson (6'-1" Jr.* G) Washington **
Eugene Moore (6'-6" Jr. F) Washington
Chad Bell (7'-0" So. C) Westchester*
Lou Wright (6'-6" Jr. SG) Westchester

** as noted above we think Rodney being listed
here is a mistake, since he's a senior, and no doubt
organizers meant to list Devrin Anderson from
Crossroads here instead (see below)

* the roster we were given also listed Chad as a
freshman, but that's not correct. He's a soph.

Andre Hazel (6'-0" Jr. PG) Artesia
Derrick Craven (6'-2" So. SG/PG) Bishop Montg.
Errick Craven (6'-2" So. PG/SG) Bishop Montg.
Jamaal Williams (6'-6" So. F) Corona Centennial
Scott Borchart (6'-9" So. F/C) Chaminade
Keith Brooks (6'-7" Jr. PF) Domginuez
Tyson Chandler (7'-0" So. C) Dominguez
Adon Baines (5'-8" Jr. G) Hawthorne
Josh Childress (6'-4" So. SG) Mayfair
Edwin Draughn (6'-5" So. SF) Mayfair
Andrew Zahn (6'-9" Jr. F) Redondo Union
Travon Bryant (6'-7" Jr. PF) L.B. Jordan
Jonathan Harper (6'-4" So. SG) L.B. Poly
Geoffrey Clayton (6'-4" So. SG/SF) Magnolia
Felipe Williams (6'-3" Jr. SG/SF) Crossroads

As noted earlier, the senior boys' teams will be coached by Baron Davis of UCLA, a Santa Monica Crossroads grad, and probably soon to be of the NBA, who will coach the Southern Section, and his fellow UCLA teammate, Billy Knight, a Westchester High grad who will coach the City Section team. The rosters we got didn't list height, but did list GPA and colleges that the players have committed to play at next year. Here are the rosters for the boys' senior teams. Please note that where the roster has a college indicated, in the case of most we've just kept it the way it was sent to us. But in the case of a few (Ronald Johnson & Edward Estaven notably) we've put in the colleges we believe they will be attending. As for Ronald Cass at Kansas, well, we haven't heard about any basketball scholarship (at least not yet) so if he's going there, it will be as a regularly enrolled student. Maybe Roy Williams though should take a look at him, because he's really a fine player and would definitely be a great walk-on (or a scholarhip player at many other schools). We also have heard conflicting reports about where Larry Dillingham will actually go next year, but for now, they're listing LB State. Here's the City roster, followed by the Southern Section roster:

City Section Boys' Senior Team (Los Angeles)
High School	Player Name	GPA	College
Crenshaw	Dewayne Parker	NA	undecided
Crenshaw	Ryan Sims	NA	undecided
Crenshaw	Jonathan Stokes	3.0	undecided
Franklin High	Brian Berumen	2.8	Cal State LA
Franklin High	Gabriel Chipe	3.8	Occidental
Manual Arts	Ronald Cass	3.0	Kansas
Manual Arts	Larry Dillingham	2.8	Long Beach State
Manual Arts	Brandon Moorerr	2.7	Texas A& M Corpus Christi
Manual Arts	James Wright	3.0	Long Beach State
Mid City	Ramesh Graham	3.2	undecided
Palisades	Edward Estaven	2.7	LA City College
South Gate	Ronald Johnson	3.2	Cal State LA
Taft High	Raja Boykins	2.9	CSUN
Washington	Nehemia Campbell	3.0	New Mexico
Westchester	Eric Knight	2.8	undecided

Southern Section Senior Boys' Team
High School	Player Name	GPA	College
Capistrano Valley	J.J. Sola	2.7	Loyola Marymount
Dominguez	Keith Kincade	NA	West Virginia
Dominguez	Ronald Jackson	NA	undecided
Dominguez	Marcus Moore	NA	undecided (San Jose, New Mexico)
Gahr	Marques Jordan	3.0	undecided
Lynwood	Gary Lenoir	NA	undecided
Verbum Dei	Marlon Parmer	3.5	undecided (UNLV, Mich., USC)
LB Jordan	Craig Calloway	3.4	CSUN
LB Jordan	Darren Peterson	2.8	undecided
John Muir	John Parker	3.5	undecided
Crossroads	Devrin Anderson**	NA	undecided**
Crossroads	Chad Gordon	NA	undecided
Santa Monica	Aras Baskauskas	3.7	undecided

The girls game gets underway between the underclassmen and the boys' senior game and will take place at 7:00 p.m. Here are the rosters:

City Section Girls' Senior Team (Los Angeles)
High School	Player Name	GPA	College
Banning	Candice Baldwin	3.1	undecided
Crenshaw	Jenice Johnson	4.0	undecided
Gardena	Shevonda Gordon	3.1	Cal State Fullerton
Hamilton	Jody-Ann Gilzene	3.3	University of Illinois
Hamilton	Nicole Smith	3.5	UCSB
Los Angeles High	Shirlee Low	3.03	undecided
LA Jordan	Chakeitha Lawson	3.0	undecided
Manual Arts	Robin Richs	3.0	undecided
Palisades High	Leilani Estavan	3.0	Oregon State
Palisades High	Nicole Funn	3.0	Oregon State
San Pedro	Tiffany McCollum	3.1	undecided
Washington	Cynthia Alex	3.2	undecided
Washington	Xena Harris	3.2	undecided
Westchester	Kiara Drummond	3.5	undecided
Wilson	Maria Barajas	3.1	Cal State LA

Southern Section Senior Girls' Team
High School	Player Name	GPA	College
Dominguez	Sharone Spencer	3.1	Kansas
LB Poly	Triana	2.75	undecided
Brea Olinda	Jerri Costello	3.0	undecided
Brea Olinda	Lindsay Davidson	3.6	George Washington
Brea Olinda	Kate Ides	3.6	Harvard
Calvary Chapel	Cathy Joens	3.92	George Washington
Century	Aprile Powell	2.8	undecided
El Toro	Gioconda Mendiola	3.8	undecided
San Clemente	Debby Caine	3.4	UCSB
Sonora	Lillian Kewko	4.3	UCSD
Westminster	Tara Moore	4.2	Grand Canyon

Tickets will be available at the door. We have no idea how much they will be (the press release doesn't say) but they probably won't be too expensive (we're guessing between $5 and $10), and for three games, that's cheap. If you need further information on the games, or want to know about the banquet tomorrow night (Thursday, April 29) at 6:00 p.m. at the Torrance Holiday Inn, call Kenneth Miller at (310) 715-9300.