Orange Lutheran’s Gabe York might have delivered the dunk of the season in last night’s first round victory over Dana Hills. The only thing I’ve seen better this year was Blake Griffin over Kendrick Perkins.
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Orange Lutheran’s boys basketball team kicked off Trinity League play Wednesday night without star guard Gabe York and will probably be without him for a couple of weeks.
York had an appendectomy on New Year’s Eve, Lancers coach Chris Nordstrom said.
Nordstrom said York’s doctors believe that York will be out 2-3 weeks and will likely miss the first round of league games.
Darien Williams led the Lancers with 23 points and 18 rebounds in a 64-47 victory over Servite on Wednesday. Payton Banks had 21 and 10.
Orange Lutheran will face Santa Margarita on Friday and Mater Dei next Wednesday.
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With his Orange Lutheran Lancers staring defeat in the face, York came nailed a game-tying 3 as time expired in regulation to tie the Dick’s Sporting Goods Orange Holiday Classic at 53-53.
In OT, York nailed a 3 on the first possession. Later he had a four-point play with the game tied at 58-58. The Lancers wouldn’t look back, going on to the 68-60 victory over No. 5 Foothill.
York scored 30 points. He also became the school’s all-time leading scorer.
They’re two of the best players in the county. Saturday night, they showed you why.
**Orange Lutheran senior Gabe York had a triple double against Downey, scoring 42 points, with 11 rebounds and 10 assists. York scored 14 points in the final four minutes to lead the Lancers to a 68-63 victory over Downey in the championship game of the El Modena Kick-Off Classic.
**In the finals of the Diablo Inferno at Mission Viejo, Katin Reinhardt scored 34 points to lead the Mater Dei to a 91-55 victory over Capistrano Valley.
Orange Lutheran’s Gabe York, who recently committed to Arizona, will participate in this year’s Boost Mobile Elite 24, Aug. 26-27 in Venice, California.
Participants are selected by ESPNHS basketball experts and other leading talent evaluators and selected based on their performance during AAU tournaments and national summer camps.
York will also compete in the slam dunk contest, which will air at 4 p.m. on the 26th. The game will be aired on the 27th also at 4 p.m.
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Longtime SoCal writer Frank Burlison, a nationally respected evaluator of basketball talent and just an overall in-the-know guy on the local sports scene, wrote this about Orange Lutheran guard Gabe York’s play at the Adidas Nations event this past weekend:
Mater Dei’s Xavier Johnson and Orange Lutheran’s Gabe York, seniors this coming school year, put up some fine numbers Monday in the Adidas Nations event at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
Check out this box score from a third-place game in the age-group tournament.
York committed to Arizona. Johnson is undeclared, and has a plethora of excellent colleges vying for him.
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Orange Lutheran guard and senior-to-be Gabe York has committed to Arizona, Lancers coach Chris Nordstrom confirms.
York, a second-team All-County selection last year, averaged 19 points a game for the Lancers as they captured the CIF-SS 4AA title.
Nordstrom said that York took four trips (Washington, Marquette, Notre Dame and Arizona).
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Mater Dei’s Xavier Johnson and Katin Reinhardt and Orange Lutheran’s Gabe York are scheduled to participate at the 18th Annual National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Top 100 Camp, Wednesday-Saturday at the University of Virginia.
The camp is designed to prepare players for life on and off the basketball court. On the court, the players will compete in practices and games.
The University of Arizona found a player that Southern California schools will surely regret not recruiting harder.
La Verne Lutheran’s Grant Jarrett did everything but take down the backboard, and he nearly did that in the 4th quarter. The Wildcat commit dropped 30 points, nabbed 16 boards, and swatted away six shots in a 74-58 second-round victory over Orange Lutheran.
“There aren’t many center in high school basketball, but he’s one of them,” Orange Lutheran coach Chris Nordstrom said. “He’s as good of a center we’ve played since the Wear twins, I suppose. He is very very good.”
Senior James Douglas played his final game for Orange Lutheran (20 points, seven rebounds), as the Northern Arizona signee went out with a bang. He delivered a number of rim-rattling dunks.
“It’s been a great four years here,” James Douglas said. “We’ve done everything we can, (including) a CIF championship. We wanted to win state, but we gave it our all.”
Orange Lutheran had a number of firsts this year, that included their first CIF championship and their first victory over Mater Dei.
La Verne Lutheran will visit Harvard-Westlake in the Regionals Division 3 semifinals on Saturday.
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CIF-SS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
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PRICE OF LOS ANGELES (27-4) VS. ORANGE LUTHERAN (23-7)
Site, time: Mater Dei High, 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5-$9
Parking: Free
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