An update from the O.C. All-Star Basketball Games being played tonight at Mission Viejo High:
In the Elite Underclassmen Boys Game:
South 97, North 85: Mission Viejo’s Ben Hayes scored a game high 29 in his home gym to lead the South.
Dylan Garrity of Edison contributed 16 and Marina’s Brendon Holmes hit four three-pointers and finished with 13.
Update from the O.C. All-Star Basketball Games tonight at Mission Viejo:
In the Big Schools Senior Girls Game:
South 78, North 63: Foothill’s Christina Marinacci made the best of her last high school basketball game.
The USC bound senior led all players with 15 points to key the South’s victory.
The South All Stars had the contest put away by halftime with a 38-20 lead.
Here is the final score from the Big Schools Elite Underclassmen Girls Game at Mission Viejo.
South 68, North 59: San Clemente’s Cassie Harberts scored a game high 18 to lead the South to the victory.
Kelsey Harris scored 16, including four three-pointers, and her Brea Olinda teammate, Jenae Olekumi, scored 14 to lead the North.
-- LOU PONSI, OCVarsity.com
Here is the final score from the Small Schools Senior Boys Game at Mission Viejo High:
South 71, North 54: Jeff Jefferson of Brethren Christian and Travis Ricker of Calvary Chapel each scored 14 to lead the South All Stars.
Whittier Christian’s Luke Essinger and Pranav Tadi of Whitney scored 12 each for the North.
-- LOU PONSI, OCVarsity.com
Six all-star games featuring many of the top basketball players in Orange County will be held Saturday at Mission Viejo High. (UPDATE: Read how the O.C. players did at the games.)
The Kiwanis/PlyoCity High School All-Star games are to include six players who were All-County first-team selections for the 2008-09 season, including girls player of the year Christina Marinacci from Foothill.
Some of the better non-seniors in the county also are on rosters.
Here are the final rosters for the six O.C. All-Star basketball games on Saturday.
The games are listed in order of today's schedule.
Game 1: Small School Boys
North Roster
No. Player School
11 RJ Arriolla, Orangewood Academy
12 Michael Dykema, Valley Christian
20 Luke Esslinger, Whittier Christian
22 Richard Johnson, Fairmont Prep
23 Evan Laveist, Liberty Christian
24 Jesse Limon, Whittier Christian
30 Alex Matros, Tarbut V’Torah
32 Pranav Tadi, Whitney
33 Andrew Yang, Whitney
34 Tim Wright, Bethel Baptist
42 Sun Yoo, Fairmont Prep
44 Shar Younessi, Tarbut V’Torah
The 2009 Kiwanis/PlyoCity High School All-Star Basketball Games will be played May 9 at Mission Viejo High.
Here is the schedule for the six games:
Noon: Senior Girls (Small Schools)
1:30 p.m.: Senior Boys (Small Schools)
3 p.m.: Elite Underclassmen Girls
4:30 p.m.: Senior Girls (Big Schools)
6:30 p.m.: Elite Underclassmen Boys
8 p.m.: Senior Boys (Big Schools)
Here are the rosters for the Boys and Girls Big Schools games:
The 2009 Kiwanis/PlyoCity High School All-Star Basketball Games will be played May 9 at Mission Viejo High.
Here is the schedule for the six games:
Noon: Senior Girls (Small Schools)
1:30 p.m.: Senior Boys (Small Schools)
3 p.m.: Elite Underclassmen Girls
4:30 p.m.: Senior Girls (Big Schools)
6:30 p.m.: Elite Underclassmen Boys
8 p.m.: Senior Boys (Big Schools)
Here are the rosters for the Boys and Girls Small Schools games:
The 2009 Kiwanis/PlyoCity High School All-Star Basketball Games will be played May 9 at Mission Viejo High.
Here is the schedule for the six games:
Noon: Senior Girls (Small Schools)
1:30 p.m.: Senior Boys (Small Schools)
3 p.m.: Elite Underclassmen Girls
4:30 p.m.: Senior Girls (Big Schools)
6:30 p.m.: Elite Underclassmen Boys
8 p.m.: Senior Boys (Big Schools)
Here are the team rosters for the Boys and Girls Elite Underclassmen games:
A memorial service for Orange Lutheran girls basketball coach Tony Matson will be held on May 4 at 4 p.m. at Rose Drive Friends Church.
The memorial service is open to the public.
Matson's pastor Jim LeShana said two memorial funds are being established in Matson's name with the proceeds going to his wife, Heidi, and their three children.
Donations can be made to the "Matson Memorial Fund" at Rose Drive Friends Church through its Web site, www.rdf.org, or mailed to 4221 Rose Drive, Yorba Linda, CA., 92886. All of the donations will go to the family for a variety of needs that they currently and will have in the days ahead.
2008-09 All-San Joaquin League Girls Basketball Team
MVP: Jordan Esparza, Fairmont Prep, Sr.
FIRST TEAM: Delaney Lew (Fairmont Prep, Sr.); Nina Adamo (Saddleback Valley Christian, Sr.); Rachelle Davis (Orangewood Academy, Jr.); Yesenia De La Rosa (Avalon, Sr.); Ashlie Adams (Saddleback Valley Christian, Soph.)
These are always the worst stories to write.
I love covering high school sports in Orange County. I've been doing it since 1992. I've been on the girls basketball beat for a long time and Friday the Orange County sports community lost one of the good guys.
Orange Lutheran girls basketball coach Tony Matson, 44, collapsed at his construction job in Corona this morning and died after being transported to the Corona Regional Hospital.
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