SoCal High School & Prep Report

San Diego Nike Prep Holiday Classic:
Who's Who and Where's Where--(December 23, 1997)

As you will see if you read our "Titanic Returns" article (dated 12/28/97), our portable computer's hard drive was non-functional on the trip from which we just returned, and as a result, we were operating last week under a major handicap. . . some folks think we've got a few of our own anyway, but this was a major hinderance, and kept us from uploading or downloading to the site completely.

But that didn't stop us from writing some stuff. No sirreebob.

We still were able to boot up the $2,500 paperweight using an "emergency recovery" disk, and with the help of some floppies we were able to use our trusty old DOS Editor program (you remember that, don't you, the one where you type "edit" from the A> prompt. . . go ahead try it. . . .) to write some stuff and actually save it to disk. We're just going to pretend that we uploaded this in a timely manner, so it bears the date it was written. It's also helpful to understand and make some sense out of who's playing in the Nike Prep Classic when you read Patrick McKinney's later reports. So here it is:

The Nike National Prep Classic will be played this week in San Diego from December 26, 1997 through December 31.

The Tournament will be played at four different venues in the first four days, and then will switch to both Torrey Pines High School and to the new Cox Arena on the campus of San Diego State for the semifinal games. The finals, which will be played on New Years Eve, December 31, 1997, will be held at Cox Arena.

The tournament features some of the top talent from not only SoCal but around the country as well. The headliner of this tournament has to be last year's defending Tournament Champions, Crenshaw, who are also the defending Southern Section CIF Champions and the State Division I Champions.

Thirty eight teams will battle it out this year for a chance to claim the title. Among the teams from outside California will be St. Anthony from New Jersey, which is the tourney's highest rated non-California team. Other out-of-state teams include Garfield High School from Seattle Washington, Reno High and Robert McQueen from Reno, Nevada, as well as Camden, New Jersey, Las Vegas Bonanza High, Canberra High from Queensland, Australia, Moountain View High from Bend Oregon, St. Dominics' from Oyster Bay, New York, and St. Pius X from Houston, Texas.

Teams from other parts of California include Bishop O'Dowd from Oakland, Bakersfiled Centennial, Loki Tokay, and Carmichael's Jesuit, who just concluded play in the Reebok Vegas Prep Classic. Also appearing will be South Lake Tahoe's South Tahoe High.

SoCal Teams competing will be La Jolla's Bishop, LA Canoga Park, Mission Viejo Capistrano, Bakersfield Centennial, Oceanside Horizon (State Division V Championship Runners-up), Pasadena's John Muir, Riverside's JW North High, Huntington Beach's Ocean View, Poway High, San Diego's Rancho Bernardo, Vista Rancho Buena, Red Bluff, Solano Beach Santa Fe Christian, San Diego Scripps, San Diego St. Augustine, San Diego Torrey Pines, Upland and Vista High.

This is a great tournament, which promises to be even better this year now that the finals will be held at a first-rate arena. If you're going to be in the San Diego area over the New Year, and want to see seom great hoops, then come down to San Diego for the Nike National Prep Classic.

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