Salesian of Richmond boys head coach Bill Mellis is shown coaching during game before the pandemic hit in 2020. At right is state scoring phenom Ari Long from Valley View of Moreno Valley. Photos: David Gershon / SportStars & Valley View girls basketball.
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. And this week there were milestones galore, especially from just Tuesday night of this week when we had girls scoring 61 and 60 points in a game plus a freshman boy with 60. Last week on the same night we had two boys coaches win their 600th game (with another one from the night before). We have another girls coach winning a 700th game, Mater Dei’s incredible 34-year league win streak ending and a freshman boys’ player coming on from a remote town up north that burned in the 2021 Dixie fire.
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NOTE: Freshman Jason Crowe Jr. from Lynwood scored 60 points on Tuesday night in a victory against Gahr of Cerritos. We’ll have more details about it when we reveal our first Class of 2026 player rankings on Saturday.
(NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week are not duplicated for this feature. To see this week’s honorees, CLICK HERE).
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(Thanks to CIF Central Section historian Bob Barnett for contributions)
(Through reported results of Saturday, Jan. 28 with perhaps some early week performers as well)
