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Newport Harbor Wins Last Week's
Palm Springs Tournament--(July 17, 1998)

In the rush to get as much stuff up from the West Coast All-Star Camps and in preparation for the adidas Big Time and the Best of Summer and the Slam N Jam NIT next week, we almost forgot to post the results of the third in the series of four Palm Springs Summer Tournaments. We want to thank our friends at Palm Springs High, including coach Paul Barton and Assistant coach Randy Small (who actually prepared this report and e-mailed it to us) for providing as much information as possible. So if Vegas at 116 degrees isn't hot enough for you in the middle of summer, perhaps you'd like to try the local desert, where it was about 118 today.

Anyway, here are the results for the third of four summer tournaments from Palm Springs High School for the weekend of July 10-12:

Newport Harbor swept through the 24 team tournament, behind the MVP play of point Matt Jameson, to beat Colony of Alaska, who last year finished behind Juneau-Douglas and Carlos Boozer on a last second shot in their state tournament. Jameson scored 15 points to lead Newport to a 57-42 victory. Colony was led in their push for the title by guard Patrick McGowan.

Results of Championship bracket action:

Palm Springs def. Camarillo
Harvard-Westlake def. Silverado
Colony def. Beaumont
La Quinta def. Santa Ynez
Newport Harbor def. Peninsula
Banning def. University City (SD)
Magnolia def. Rancho Verde
Chadwick def. Indio

Palm Springs def. Harvard-Westlake
Colony def. La Quinta
Newport Harbor def. Banning
Chadwick def. Magnolia

Colony def. Palm Springs
Newport Harbor def. Chadwick

Finals
Newport Harbor 57 Colony (Alaska) 42 (Championship)
Chadwick 63 Palm Springs 60 (3rd Place)
Palm Desert 48 Littlerock 43 (5th Place)
Magnolia 47 Harvard-Westlake 34 (6th Place)
Rancho Verde 50 Beaumont 37 (7th Place)

All - Tournament Team
Tim Franklin - La Quinta
Darius Stewart - Banning
John Karavas - Harvard-Westlake
Artty Upattiya - Magnolia
Dat Le - Birmingham
Jermel Brooks - North Torrance
David Barton - Palm Springs
Jordi Higueras - Palm Springs
Ryan Maier - Chadwick
Gene Myvett - Littlerock
John Fernandez - Palm Desert
Mike Johnson - Colony
Pat McGowan - Colony
Allen Limon - Newport Harbor
Gary Robinson - Newport Harbor
MVP-Matt Jameson - Newport Harbor

Leading Scorers
Paul Barton - Palm Springs 16.5
Stia Asoua - Magnolia 15.8
Joey Gill - Palm Desert 15.2
Matt Jameson - Newport Harbor 14.8
Pat McGowan - Colony 14.5
? Brooks - North Torrance 14.2
Aaron Stephens - Beaumont 13.7
Jamayne Potts - St. Monica 13.2
Brandon Tedrow - Beaumont 13.2
Ryan Maier - Chadwick 13.0

The next tournament is scheduled for July 24,25,26, with 32 teams participating. Again, there will be teams from all over SoCal including a team from Arizona and a team from Michigan. Teams scheduled to participate include recent champion Newport Harbor and recent finalist Schurr, plus Cathedral City, Serra, Nordhoff, El Dorado, Marina, Barstow, San Dimas, and many others. See you there.