Press for Salesian

Curtis Pashelka looks at Salesian High hoops.

Take a bow Coach Bill Mellis and the Salesian High basketballers

Powered by 24 points from Jabari Bird, it was Salesian High taking down southern counterpart Price High 70-56 to win the D-IV state championship this afternoon. Go Pride!

Previewing Salesian versus Price

Jimmy Durkin looks at the Salesian - Price matchup for the state D-IV championship.

SPSV taking on Salesian

Jose San Mateo reports it's St. Patrick-St. Vincent challenging Salesian High today.

Salesian two better than Sheldon

Doug Benton/Nor Cal Preps writes about Salesian's two-point win over Sheldon High.

Mitch Stephens also was present as was Bill Paterson.

Salesian over SPSV

Jose San Mateo has the game report of Salesian topping St. Patrick St. Vincent.

Salesian by a trey over SJND

Jimmy Durkin reports on Salesian's three-point win over St. Joseph Notre Dame.

BayPreps also has a report plus video.

Salesian romps (and more)

Ben Enos serves up coverage of Salesian High's 21 point victory over Sacramento High, plus all the games at the MLK Classic in Berkeley.

Salesian is Bird-powered

Mitch Stephens was present and accounted for in the Jabari Bird-led Salesian High win over Berkeley.

Salesian repping the Bay Area in the Sunshine State

Mitch Stephens offers the details on Salesian High's four game set back in Florida.

Salesian having no trouble

Mitch Stephens reports on Salesian's romp over a Kentucky squad.

Salesian falls to Montverde

In the Palms Tournament (Ft. Myers, Fla.) in first round play on Friday:

Montverde Academy 55, Salesian 42

Salesian High

Jabari Bird 5 2-2 12
Mario Dunn 3 3-4 9
Markel Leonard 2 2-2 7
Jermaine Edmonds 2 0-0 4
Jeffrey Parker 1 0-0 3
Freddie Tagaloa 1 0-0 2
Davion Mize 1 2-2 4
Jawian Harrison 0 1-3 1

From Brian Bosworth at NBE Basketball:

Jabari Bird (Salesian 2013) – Standing at 6’6” Bird is one of the most coveted shooting guards in the 2013 class. He constantly worked his way into the paint off the dribble and finished with floaters, dunks, and pull up jumpers. He also drew help defenders and then found open teammates for easy looks off his penetration. Bird did not show 3 point range (no attempts) but did everything else offensively you would want from a 2 guard.

DA lands third offer

Salesian High and Oakland Soldier point Dominic Artis has received his third basketball scholarship offer. The 2012 backcourter received his initial invite from Nevada a few weeks ago, then Washington State, and now Cal's Mike Montgomery just extended. That's one from the Mountain West and a pair from the PAC-12 conferences.

Congrats to the Bay Shore Athletic League most valuable player.

Any guessing on who else joins the beginning-to-be-a-crowd in pursuit once DA is out and about this summer?

March 27 -- your northern California high school basketball report

Douglas Benton has all the boys game reports from yesterday as well as individual spotlights.

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Mitch Stephens reports on yesterday's DLS and BOD games -- aka Black Saturday --  up in Sacramento.

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Mitch is here with Salesian's loss.

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Jimmy Durkin also covered the BOD loss.

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Bill Paterson has the details on two of the championship games for the boys.

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From the southern California perspective, Eric Sondheimer has more on the MD - DLS matchup.

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Eric and Steve Galluzzo collaborate on the game reports for the LaVerne win over BOD and Windward triumph over Salesian.

Two losses for NorCal so far

So far, it's Windward over Salesian 63-57 and Lutheran topping BOD 64-59, despite a 26/8 by Brandon Ashley in the latter.

Jimmy Durkin and Doug Benton are both tweeting.

March 26 -- your Saturday northern California boys basketball report

Alex Pavlovic has the game report plus offers 21 photos of Mitty's win against Summit. Call it Aaron Gordon's coming out to the lower half of the state party.

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Mitch Stephens covers both the Mitty success and that of St. Joseph Notre Dame -- another championship not to be forgotten.

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The Inside Bay Area folks will be live-blogging every state championship game today.

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Jimmy Durkin has updated his article on the St. Joseph Notre Dame triumph against St. Bernard.

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Ben Enos previews tonight's DLS - Mater Dei matchup.

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Joe Davidson takes a look at MD Coach Gary McKnight as well as the season for Salesian High.

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Joe also reports that there is momentum for a change in the public - private schools groupings.

Mitch Stephens on Salesian High

Mitch Stephens covers the ups-and-downs, many more of the former than the latter, of Salesian's quirky season.

Jabari Bird ineligible

Here is Mitch Stephens and here is Phil Jensen on Jabari Bird's ineligibility ruling. Salesian now has to forfeit a bunch of games.

The big high school games from last night

Here is Jimmy Durkin on the DLS - San Ramon matchup.

Here is Ben Enos on the Salesian rout of St. Mary's.

Here is Mitch Stephens on the De La Salle - San Ramon and Salesian - St. Mary's outcomes.