SoCal High School & Prep Report

Best In the West Preliminary
Round Schedule--(December 22, 1997)

Artesia coach Wayne Merino was kind enough to send a copy of the game schedule for this year's version of the Best in the West Invitational to be held from December 26-30. Even though two days of play will have occurred by the time we post this, we thought we'd put it up so that some of our reports would make some sense. Thanks again to Jason Day for passing along some of this information as well. The preliminary games will be played at Artesia High, Long Beach City College (main and auxiliary gyms), and the Lakewood YMCA.

Top seeds this year are: No. 1 Westchester; No. 2 Long Beach Poly; No. 3 Artesia; No.4 Compton; and No.5 Fairfax.

Here are the early round matchups, times, and locations:

DECEMBER 26, ARTESIA HIGH SCHOOL GYM

10:25 a.m. L.A. Jordan vs. Lakewood
12:05pm Fairfax vs. LB Wilson
1:40pm Chatsworth vs. Burbank
3:15pm Crossroads vs. Cypress
4:45pm Verbum Dei vs. Los Angeles
6:00pm Perris vs. (winner Washington/Morningside)
7:45pm Cathedral City vs.(winner Palisades/Pasadena)
9:20pm Towers( GA)vs. (winner Manual/Bakersfield)

DECEMBER 26, LAKEWOOD YMCA

11:00am Washington vs. Morningside
4 :00 pm Clovis West vs. (winner L.A. Jordan/Lakewood)

DECEMBER 26, LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE MAIN GYM

10:15am Long Beach Jordan vs. Arlington
11:50am Compton vs. Damien
1:25pm Long Beach Poly vs. San Pedro
2:55pm Westchester vs. Antelope Valley
4:25pm\tab \tab \tab Artesia vs. Bonita Vista
6:00pm Inglewood vs. (winner Chatsworth/Burbank)

DECEMBER 26, L.B. CITY COLLEGE AUXILIARY GYM

10:00am Etiwanda vs. Dorsey
11:35am Palisades vs. Pasadena
1:10pm Centennial vs. La Costa
2:45pm Hanford vs Bellarmine Prep
4:15pm Manual Arts vs. Bakersfield

Several second round games will also be played in the evening at the three main venues (none at YMCA). Matchups will be determined by the results of some of the early morning games. DeLaSalle, last year's Division 1 runner-up, has drawn byes for the first 2 rounds and opens in the 3rd at L.B. City Main Gym at 1:20 pm on Dec. 27 th.

As usual, this promises to be a great event. SoCalHoops will have plenty of coverage for those who can't get there. More later.

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