SoCal Ratings: Etiwanda vs. Sierra Canyon Saturday
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – And the Southern Regional championship field is set . . .
Following the Tuesday semifinals, the finals will be contested Saturday in six divisions for the right to take trips to Sacramento to compete for state titles in those respective divisions – Open and I to V – next weekend.
The most noteworthy of those, naturally, are the Open and I showdowns, which will be held in the Pyramid on the Long Beach State campus Saturday.
St. John Bosco and Chino Hills – No.’s 5 and 6 in the BurlisonOnBasketball updated Top 10 Plus 15 SoCal ratings – tip off at 2 o’clock in D-I.
And, five hours later, the right to rep the South in the Open finale in Sacramento (March 24) will be decided in the showdown between No.’s 1 (Sierra Canyon) and 2 (Etiwanda).
There is no shortage of irony in that each was beaten in the CIF Southern Section Open playoffs by Mater Dei, Etiwanda in a Feb. 24 semifinal at Cal Baptist University (76-66) and Sierra Canyon in the March 2 championship game in the Pyramid (55-53).
Duane Washington Jr. (PICTURED) of Sierra Canyon proved to be quite the thorn in the proverbial side of the Bishop Montgomery squad – which lost only to the Trailblazers this season.
*His buzzer-beating 3 put his team’s Southern Section Open semifinal into its first OT; the Trailblazers eventually won after a second OT, 77-74, in that Feb. double-header at CBU.
And, Tuesday night at Calabasas High, Washington’s 3 in the final 30 seconds of the first overtime put his team in front to stay as it knocked off the Knights in overtime, 72-70.
The updated BurlisonOnBasketball SoCal Top 10 Plus 15 Southern California team ratings:
SoCal Top 10 Plus 15
(Records as of March 13)
- Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (SS/25-4)
Saturday: vs. Etiwanda at Long Beach State/Regional Open final (7)
- Etiwanda (SS/30-3)
Saturday: vs. Sierra Canyon at Long Beach State/Regional Open final (7)
- Torrance Bishop Montgomery (Southern Section/28-2)
Season concluded.
- Santa Ana Mater Dei (SS/23-7)
Season concluded.
- Bellflower St. John Bosco (SS/24-7)
Saturday: vs. Chino Hills at Long Beach State/Regional D-I final (2)
- Chino Hills (SS/24-11)
Saturday: vs. St. John Bosco at Long Beach State/Regional D-1final (2)
- Temecula Rancho Christian (SS/29-5)
Season concluded.
- Westchester (L.A. City/30-6)
Season concluded.
- Fairfax (City/23-10)
Season concluded.
- Encino Crespi (SS/26-5)
Season concluded.
- Pasadena (SS/25-8)
Season concluded.
- Rancho SM Santa Margarita (SS/20-10)
Season concluded.
- La Verne Damien (SS/23-7)
Season concluded.
- Long Beach Poly (SS/23-9)
Season concluded.
- Oak Park (SS/22-7)
Season concluded.
- Mission Bay (SDS/27-6)
Season concluded.
- Moreno Valley Rancho Verde (SS/23-11)
Season concluded.
- Woodland Hills Taft (LAC/27-10)
Season concluded.
- Corona Centennial (SS/21-11)
Season concluded.
- Eastvale Roosevelt (SS/25-4)
Season concluded.
- Studio City Harvard-Westlake (SS/22-6)
Season concluded.
- Santa Monica Crossroads (SS/23-9)
Saturday: vs. Birmingham/Regional D-II final (6)
- Lake Balboa Birmingham (LAC/15-14)
Saturday: at Crossroads/Regional D-II final (6)
- Los Angeles Brentwood (SS/26-8)
Season concluded.
- San Diego Torrey Pines (SD/28-5)
Season concluded.
Dropped out: El Cajon Foothills Christian (San Diego/26-6)
Season concluded