Friday northern California high school basketball report

Carl Steward offers a look at Salesian and star Jabari Bird.

Kendall Andrews, Jabari Bird and T.J. Taylor are lauded as the East Bay basketball players of the week by Inside Bay Area.

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Jeremy Balan reports on Riordan's sacking of Seaside High.

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Isaiah Guzman provides the details of Harbor High's swamping of Robert Louis Stevenson, powered by Colin Gruber's double-double of 39/14.

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David Kiefer informs us of the Watsonville High takedown of Gunn.

Watsonville 64, Gunn 61

Watsonville -- Ivo Basor 13-10-36 (10-10 at the foul line plus 20 boards)

Gunn -- Anthony Cannon 8-3-21, Matt Redfield 9-1-19

Kendall Andrews, Newark Memorial get some love

State-final trips are old hat to Newark Memorial's Kendall Andrews
Carl Steward
Oakland Tribune
3/24/2010

Kendall Andrews has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. That was apparent a year ago when his close-range bank shot with two-tenths of a second left gave Salesian High its first state basketball title.

But now, Andrews qualifies as a certified good-luck charm. Even though he is just a junior, the 6-foot-4 forward is making his second consecutive trip to a state championship game. If that isn't rare enough, this time he's doing it at a different school — Newark Memorial, which plays Westchester-Los Angeles on Saturday night for the Division I boys title in Bakersfield.

Andrews grew up in the Fremont area, and after two years of making the tough daily commute to Salesian in Richmond, he decided it was time to stay close to home to go to school. In the fall, just before the start of the school year, he enrolled at Newark to play football and basketball...

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