Watts Summer Games Boys’ Basketball Tournament Begins

The 1994 All-Sport L.A. Watts Summer Games Boys’ Basketball Tournament began Saturday at various high school sites.

Venues include Dorsey, Fremont, Jordan, Wilson, Inglewood, Carson, Fairfax and Westchester.

The second and third rounds will be played today from 9 a.m. until noon at each site. Rounds four and five will be played Saturday at Washington and Inglewood high schools, beginning at 9 a.m.

The semifinals and finals will be played June 26 at Compton College beginning at 10 a.m.

Area schools scheduled to compete: Bell, Belmont, Dorsey, Fremont, Garfield, Huntington Park, Jordan, Lincoln, Locke, Los Angeles, Loyola, Manual Arts, Pilgrim, Roosevelt, South Gate, Verbum Dei, Washington and Wilson.

The tournament will showcase some of the area’s top returning players. Leading the list are Jordan’s Clem Breedlove and Loyola’s Ryan (Moose) Bailey.

Breedlove, a 1994 City Times second-team all-star, averaged 20 points a game for the Bulldogs and will be Coach Ed Kamiyama’s primary weapon next season.

“Clem’s role will be to knock down the three-point shot,” Kamiyama said. “He will be the premier man.”

Bailey will attempt to carry on the family legacy and pick up the leadership role provided for four years by older brother, Toby, who will play at UCLA this fall.

Moose Bailey was Loyola’s second leading scorer last season, averaging 17 points. He had a team-high 20 points in the Cubs’ 78-60 loss to Mater Dei in the Southern Section Division I-A semifinals.

Two-time City Section 4-A Division runner-up Dorsey sends Willie O’Neal and Jason Howzell.

Representing defending Southern Section Division IV champion Verbum Dei will be Andre Larry and Andre Smith.

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Trade Tech College is the host site for the seventh annual Say-No Basketball Classic.

The summer league began Friday and is scheduled to run until Aug. 8.

Games are played every Friday, Saturday and Sunday except for the weekend of July 4, when games are scheduled for Friday only.

Friday games begin at 6 p.m. and weekend games begin at noon.

Four games are scheduled each day, involving some of the top high school and college talent across the nation.

Former Loyola High standout Toby Bailey will play alongside fellow UCLA recruit J.R. Henderson of Bakersfield East on their squad team, Team UCLA.

The squad team known as Fastbreak features former Crenshaw stars Tremaine Fowlkes and Kris Johnson.

Reggie McFerren, who also went to Crenshaw, is teamed with former Beverly Hills center Luke Buffum on the team World-One-For-Christ.

College players include USC’s Lorenzo Orr and Stais Boseman and former Trojan Avondre Jones; Cameron Dollar and Charles and Ed O’Bannon of UCLA; Michael O’Quinn of Loyola Marymount and former Pasadena Muir star Jacque Vaughn of Kansas.

For further information contact Rod Smith, league director, at (213) 930-1945.