Stuart Wesonga's efforts recognized

Harold Abend features and honors San Marin's Stuart Wesonga, who posted some incredible numbers this season.

Sunday's report on Saturday night's northern California high school basketball scores

Glen Reeves reports on Sacred Heart Cathedral downing Burlingame. There are also Santa Teresa - Serra plus Pinewood - Mid-Peninsula writeups included. Mitch Stephens also provides a SHC - Burlingame story, as does Jeremy Balan.

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Harold Abend, John Dugan and Jimmy Durkin all offer the details on San Marin's Wesonga-powered win over El Cerrito.

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Jimmy Durkin also writes about Oakland High's three-point victory over Mack.

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Brian VanderBeek has the Colfax High triumph over Amador High and Bill Paterson covers the same territory.

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Joe Davidson tells us about Sheldon getting past Jesuit.

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Bill Paterson is all over St. Mary's of Stockton taking down Antelope.

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Travis Souders says it was Sterling Smith and Kurt Kitayama leading Chico High to victory over Pleasant Valley High.

The Saturday report on last night's northern California high school basketball games

The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat has the details of the Ben Freeland-powered Montgomery victory over Dublin.

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Dave Curtis reports on San Marin's takedown of Albany.

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The Sac Bee's Bill Paterson has everything you would want to know about the scores  and highlights of games up that way.

Bill also offers the scoop of Jesuit's win over Burbank with Joe Davidson doing the same about the Franklin triumph versus Turlock.

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Aaron Finley fills us in on Bishop O'Dowd's hard fought win over Del Norte.

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Nick Wilson says it was Sterling Smith power that led Chico over Red Bluff.

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It was the firm of Giusti and Tollefsen who led San Ramon Valley to an 11-point success against Deer Valley -- check out Jimmy Durkin's article.

At the Inside Bay Area site, Mike McGreehan covers the Oakland - Oakland Tech and Castlemont - McClymonds contests.

Jim Bucci writes that Castro Valley had no trouble downing Antioch. 

Bill Kolb tells us Las Lomas held on against Redwood.

Scott Strain caught the El Cerrito victory over San Rafael.

Chace Bryson covered Northgate edging past Pinole Valley.

Head here for a ton of box scores on the various games.

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Joe Chappell, at age 69, is still in the coaching box at Salinas High as George Watkins reports.

Tuesday's northern California high school basketball report

Love 'em or hate 'em, here are Mitch Stephens' playoff picks, plus more.

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Here is Joe Davidson doing the same for up Sacramento way.

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San Fran Preps has University High in the top spot this week.

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What do you call it when a player not only averages a double-double but is very close to being in the 20s in scoring AND rebounding? San Marin's Stuart Wesonga is at 21.5 ppg. and 18.4 rpg. Head here for all the Marin County basketball stats.

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Dom Artis took Bay Shore Athletic league top player honors -- head here to read more selections.

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Brian VanderBeek of the Modesto Bee looks at the upcoming playoff pairings and makes some interesting predictions.

HS & JC scores, news and notes

Saw this posted at the Rivals basketball recruiting message board: "Josiah Turner is leaving Sac High and taking his talents to Quality Education Academy in North Carolina"

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Santa Rosa 67, Delta 62

Derek Wofford scored 11 points, but visiting Delta fell to Santa Rosa JC. SR's Lorenzo McCloud led all scorers with 30 points and five 3-pointers.

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Santa Teresa 59, Leland 56

Santa Teresa -- Spencer Koopmans 6-2-19, Trevor Priest 6-0-13, Denzel Copeland 4-2-11

Leland -- Justin Dueck 6-2-14, Dylan Bell 5-0-12

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Oakland over Deer Valley, Berkeley over Oakland Tech in the Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have A Dream Classic" at Laney College. Go here.  

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San Marin won over Novato behind 20+ points and 20+ rebounds from Stuart Wesonga -- go here.

A load of scores, game reports and more from yesterday's games

Jabari Bird receives some major love from Mitch Stepens, who also reports on the game outcomes of the MLK Classic.

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Here is Jimmy Durkin on Salesian over Castro Valley.

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Here is a good Inside Bay Area combo report on Sacramento defeating BOD, plus other game reports.

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Check out yesterday's East Bay Prep Corner Live Blog of the MLK Classic.

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Here is Bill Paterson on Sac High's win over Bishop O'Dowd.

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Here is a three and a half minute video of Sheldon High battling Sac High last weekend.

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The Salesian High players out of Vallejo are featured in this Jose San Mateo article in the Vallejo Times.

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Stuart (San Marin High) Wesonga and Michael (Terra Linda High) Best are both averaging a double-double in Marin County play so far this season. Check out the numbers here.

Rose City Basketball Tournament begins tomorrow

Stuart Wesonga of San Marin receives some major play in this Press Democrat article on the Rose City tourney which starts on Thursday -- go here.

Stuart Wesonga heads south

As first reported by NorCalPreps, here are some details of San Marin's Stuart Wesonga's decision to move to southern California for college.

San Marin's Wesonga to play at Cal State Northridge
Dave Allen
Marin Independent Journal
11/03/2010

San Marin High basketball standout Stuart Wesonga has verbally committed to accept an athletic scholarship from Cal State Northridge. He plans to sign a letter of intent to play for the Matadors on Nov. 10.

What won me over was how honest and caring everyone on the staff is," said Wesonga, who is preparing for his senior season at San Marin and would begin attending classes at Northridge in the fall of 2011. "Coach (Bobby) Braswell is a teacher first and foremost and that means he really cares. I could tell that right away."

Go here for the remainder.