SoCal High School & Prep Report

21st Annual Reebok Las Vegas
Prep Classic: First Day Scores--(December 20, 1997)

Ok, we're sitting here with a laptop, in a hotel room with a pileof statistics and notes from a few games we saw, and a whole bunch we didn't see. But we're going to give you the score, and at least a few highlights from some of the top SoCal teams' games. Here goes:

Game 1: Bartlett (Anchorage, Alaska) beat Peninsula (Rolling Hills, CA) in the first game, 57-69. Thehigh scorer for Peninsula was Grant Perica, who had 16 points, 6 offensive rebounds, 7 defensive rebounds, had no turnovers, and was named the game MVP even though Peninsula lost.

Game 2: Mercersburg (Kobe Bryant's alma mater, from Mercersburg, PA) beat Lincoln Prep from San Diego 95-62. Kyle Logan from Mercersburg was named the game MVP with 24 points. Anthony Watts from LP had 23 points, and John Allen had 11.

Game 3: Los Angeles High beat East Jefferson (Metairie, LA) 78-71. Leroy Dawson was named the games Most Valuable Player, and he had 28 points and 2 assists in 21 minutes for LA. Deon Green had 18 points in 26 minutes for LA. Jefferson's Pat Turley hade 26 points in the losing effort.

Game 4: Rangeview (Aurora, Colorado) beat Brittania (Victoria, B.C.) 101-31 in one of the most lopsided games yesterday. Andy Gurzick from Rangeview was the games MVP, and he scored 28 points. Carlos Castillo was the high scorer for Brittania with 13 points. Brittania only had two other scorers, Harlan Torrealba with 10, and Lorne Page with 8.

Game 5: Long Beach Poly beat Centennial High (B.C.) 94-57 in another lopsided game against a team from Canada. Richard Anderson was the game MVP with 20 points, and 11 rebounds for Poly.

Game 6: Archbishop Spalding (Severn Maryland) beat Rancho Bernardo (CA) 61-56. Rei Rivera had 28 points for RB in the losing effort, while Derrick Goode was named MVP for Spalding with 22 points.

Game 7: Woodinvile (Washington) lost to Washigton Union (Fresno, CA) 77-44. Shame Stallworth was named MVP had he had 26 ponts in 27 minutes of play. Woodinville only had one player in double figures (Jesse Barham with 13).

Game 8: Manual (Denver, CO) beat Westlake (Austin, TX) 91-78. Marcus Holmes of Manual was named MVP with 21 pts in 24 minutes.

Game 9: Upper St. Clair (PA) lost to host Durango 76-55. Steve Simister was named MVP and he had 21 points for Durango.

Game 10: Mountain View (Phoenix, AZ) proved that it is one of the best teams on the west coast --if the desert is one the coast-- by beating Newbury Park by 19 points, 67-48. Kenny Crandall was named the MVP and he had 20 points and 6 assists. Ned James had 19 pts while Todd Heap had 10 for MV. Newbury Park was led by Dan Bobik with 22, and he was the only Panther in double figures. Other scorers for NP were Will Svitek 2, Dan Block 0 in 5 minutes, Brian Bobik 3 pts in 23 minutes, Jesse Roche with 2 in only 29 seconds of play, Chris Pollastrini did not score and played for only 26 seconds at the end of the game, Luther Staine only had 2 points in 30 minutes of play, and Nick Czernick had 3 in 13 minutes. Robert Congelliere had 2 points in 11 minutes, while Prian Polen only had 3 points in 14 minutes. Mike Meru had 7 points in 17 minutes of play, while Lee Turner did not score in 12 minutes. Newbury Park had 25 total turnovers.

Game 11: Compton beat Dunbar (Lexington, Kentucky) 82-74. Tito Maddox was named the game MVP with 21 points in 26 minutes. Deandre Moore also had 21 points and 5 assists, while Tito had 3 assists. Others scoring for Compton were Dony Legans with 5 pts, 1 assist, Ellis Miles DNP, Ray Ross had 2 points in 11 minutes, James Cummings DNP, Reggie Howard had 6, Milton Riley didn't score and only played 3:25, Jeremiah Thompson played 5:36 and did not score, Terry Hosendove played 6:39 and had 7 points and 1 turnover, while David Hamilton played 26 minutes and had 18 points and 10 rebounds. Compton had a total of 37 rebounds. The high scorer for Dunbar was Scott Hundley with 27.

Game 12: Ponderosa (Parker CO) beat Redemptionist (NY) 65-63 in the closest game of the tourney. Bobbie Ballard of Ponderosa was the MVP with 29 points in 26 minutes.

Game 13: Baldwin got beat up by Mt. Zion (see our separate story on this one) 85-30.

Game14: Denver East lost to Salmen (Slidell, LA) 58-47. Troy Smith of Salmen was the MVP with 20 points.

Game 15: Poway (San Diego, CA) beat co-host Cimmaron Memorial (Las Vegas, NV) 56-48. How rude. Joe Mann of Poway was the MVP and he only had 12 points and this was just a defensively oriented game.

Game 16: Inglewood lost to Graves County (Mafield, Kentucky) by a score of 66-59. Jamie Norsworthy was the MVP and had 25 points for Graves. For Inglewood, Sandy Fletcher had 8 points in 24 minutes of play, John Youngblood had 6, Brian Taylor had 2 points in 6:39, Kevin Bradley had only 2 points in 12:35, while Lonnie Davis had 5 (but the stats list him as DNP-- he must be the most productive player ever to get 5 and not play). Dushon Wodard had 2, and Bradley Jackson had 22 points and should have been the MVP as he played great. Greg Langston had 0 and DNP, Gerrod Jenkins had 8 points and 2 assists and 6 rebounds. Antonio McClinon had 0 points in 2:29, while Noel Felix had 4 points. Lennie Brown, Paul Stewart and Skip Esene had no points and only Skip Esene played (for 16 minutes). Inglewood starters were Fletcher, Woodard, Jackson, Jenkins and Esene. Inglewood is now 1-3 on the season with this loss.

Game 17: Harvard Westlake (Studio City, CA) lost to Long Branch in the opening round 61-69 in a game that HW was winning by 3 points with 1:00 remaining in the game. See our accompanying article on HW's performance and some other details on this one. We'll also feature a separate story or later augment the article for Long Branch stats and features.

Game 18: Rice (NY) just pounded Basic (Henderson NV) 95-34. Rice's Pyree Wilson was named the game MVP.

We'll have the rest of the games which were played last night later today, because we just couldn't wait around for the late game stats. But for those who just can't wait, Westchester did beat South Mountain High by about 25 points--we'll also have a complete report on this game, which we saw, later today. But for now, we've got to get over to the gym to see some other games (only had 4 hours sleep). . . Later.

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