grand finale

There's been one notable change in the teams playing in this tournament, and that is that Compton has now become Compton Centennial, both literally and figuratively speaking. Compton last year had Jeremiah Thompson and Jamal Barnes, not to mention Rod Palmer as head coach, Dominique Street, George Borthwell and Gary Miles as assistants, but with Rod's transfer to Centennial as the new AD, the rest have followed, to be joined by Omar Weaver (6'-7" Sr. PF), who transferred to wherever Rod happened to be from the East Coast.

We saw Omar play in two games yesterday, first against Fontana at the Best in the West Summer Shootout, a game that Centennial lost, and then again at the Carson Grande Finale, a game that Centennial won, and Omar is good, very good, perhaps even exceptional as a potential college prospect at the three, but we're just not convinced yet that he's the top power forward, or even the top three man in SoCal just yet, at least from what we saw yesterday. Omar is very athletic, pretty thin, and he runs the floor, but we didn't see any marvelous displays of shooting, no smothering defense, and while he can get up and dunk with ease, he didn't do it in the game. We liked what we saw, we'd just like to get a few more looks.

Dominguez 75, Villa Park 36
Westchester 63, Oceanview 59
Canyon Springs 54, Redondo 77
Mira Costa 37, St. Bernard 51
Verbum Dei 57, Carson 65
Serra 43, Centennial 70
Bishop Mongtomery 51, LB Wilson 35
Inglewood 66, West Torrance 44
JW North 65, Lynwood 55
Fremont 65, LA Washington 62
Carson 71, Canyon Spring 78
St. Bernard won over Westchester (score not in yet)

At Carson HS
Game No.	Time	Teams
No. 15	12:00 p.m.	Dominguez v. San Pedro
No. 17	1:15 p.m.	Redondo v. Verbum Dei
No. 19	2:30 p.m.	Villa Park--BYE
No. 21	3:45 p.m.	Washington v. Inglewood
No. 23	5:00 p.m.	West Torrance v. Fremont
No. 25	6:15 p.m.	Serra--BYE
No. 27	7:30 p.m.	Carson v. Redondo

At Lynwood HS
Game	Time	Teams
No. 16	1:00 p.m.	Centennial--BYE
No. 18	2:15 p.m.	Morningside v. Serra
No. 20	3:30 p.m.	Lynwood v. Bishop Montgomery
No. 22	4:45 p.m.	LB Wilson v. JW North
No. 24	6:00 p.m.	Oceanview v. Mira Costa
No. 26	7::15 p.m.	Canyon Springs v. Verbum Dei
No. 28	8:45 p.m.	Morningside v. Centennial