News Bits
Alex Gil-Fernandez, of Gunn High, Foothill College and Cal State San Marcos, signed with the Santa Cruz Warriors on February 7. He played in the Mexican LNBP league the last two seasons. Joey (Marin Catholic/San Diego/UConn) Calcaterra was waived by the Warriors.
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Bellarmine Athletics (Feb 7): "Varsity basketball final: Bells 49 SHC 45. Also, congrats to Junior PG Will Corbett for joining the 1,000 point club finishing the game with 25 points."
That's half of his team's total. Remarkable for the 6-foot-2 prospect.
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Ronnie Flores: "Congrats to Oklahoma-bound & soon-to-be 3x all-stater Alec Blair (L), as tonight he broke the De La Salle High School basketball career scoring mark (1,652 pts.) of 2001 CalHiSports all-state guard Joe See. See helped the Spartans win the CIF D1 crown in 2000; Congrats to Alec."
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6-foot-1 sophomore Kaden (Gunn High) Holbrook is majoring in economics at Macalester College in Minnesota. Besides that, in 16 games, 15 starts and 30.6 minutes an outing, he is averaging 15.8 points plus 4.3 rebounds a game, shooting 39%, 34% and 80% respectively.
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6-foot-8 graduate student Isaiah (Tracy High/USF) Hawthorne is enjoying by far his most productive season of his collegiate hoops tenure. In 24 games/starts and 29 minutes a night, Hawthorne is second on the team in scoring at 16.9 points and also ranks second in rebounding with 5.6 a contest. Head Coach Steve Smiley and his assistants deserve major credit for identifying and wooing Hawthorne to Greeley
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A senior finance major out of The Congo, 6-foot-8, 230 Nathan Ilunga is averaging 10.0 points plus a team high 6.8 rebounds per contest alongside a team best 26 blocked shots in 23 games/starts and 31 minutes an outing. He formerly played at City College San Francisco.
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6-foot-4 senior and business sports management major David (Moreau Catholic High/Chabot College) Hector is in his second season at Southwest Baptist University and in 21 games/starts at 27 minutes per game, is averaging 7.8 points plus a squad high 6.1 boards while shooting 51%, 30% and 60% respectively. His 30 steals is also tops on his team.
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KPIX CBS anchor Matt Lively presents the USF Beasley Brothers, 6-foot-2 senior Robby and 5-foot-11 Ryan, in a just short of three minutes feature. Click here.
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"Cal-Hi Sports Northern California Boys State Basketball Player of the Week Conor Maguire (International, San Francisco) Sr.
It’s not many blocks from the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco where International High School is located to Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors. It’s at International High where we find this week’s boys’ honoree for Northern California.
Head coach Paul Cortes nominated senior guard Conor after what he did during a senior night celebration last week that saw him rack up 14 three-pointers and 63 points in a 100-55 triumph over Drew of San Francisco. We have a photo of the official scorebook to prove the totals.
Many were wondering about CIF North Coast Section and all-time San Francisco city records after Maguire’s big night. Our state records include everyone who has scored 64 points or more, but not 63. Based on that, and with the stipulation that it’s possible there’s another 63-point total from the NCS or SF city annals that we don’t have, Conor would now rank No. 4 on the city list behind 82 by Winters Patterson of Balboa (1995), 78 by Walter Jackson of Balboa (1992) and 72 by Joel Black of Lick-Wilmerding (1966). For the NCS, Maguire would sit at No. 3 behind Black and Don Lyons of CSD Berkeley at 69 (1964).
For the 14 three-pointers, which was helped by Conor nailing 11-of-15 on threes in the first half alone when he had 42 of his points, that is a new NCS record. It broke the previous best in our exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state record files of 12 firs set in 2004 by Chad Lichau of Napa Justin-Siena and tied in 2023 by then freshman Saddiq Alarbesh of Napa Christian. We have no reported total from any other San Francisco schools in the AAA, WCAL or others with 12 or more, either.
In the same game in which Maguire had 63 points, he also had 10 rebounds and five assists. He had 42 points in the first half and was an amazing 11-of-15 shooting three-pointers. In other games earlier this season, Conor had 27 points with six rebounds, four assists and six steals vs San Domenico and 26 points with 10 rebounds and six assists vs Gateway.
“Conor led us to a final four finish in the CIF NorCal D5 playoffs last season has elevated our small school to its best run in school history the last couple of years,” Cortes said. “This was his senior night and he went out in a huge way."
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Mon, Feb 10, NCAA D1 scores
Incarnate Word 75, New Orleans 65 box. Dylan (Healdsburg High) Hayman scored 22 points, grabbed five boards and issued three assists.
Tue, Feb 11, NCAA D1 scores
St. Mary's 73, Santa Clara 64 box. Augustas Marciulionis was on the court for 40 minutes and led the Gaels with 24 points, six assists and three steals. Starting guard Adama-Alpha Bal did not play for the Broncos due to injury/illness.
San Diego State 69, San Jose State University 66 box. Back on January 28, the Spartans led the Aztecs 41-29 at the half only to lose 71-68. This time, the lead was 37-20 San Jose. Latrell Davis, who led SJSU with 21 points, missed on a three-point try for the tie at the buzzer with this one. Teammate Donovan Yap enjoyed 19 and center Robert (Archbishop Riordan) Vaihola posted a solid line of nine boards, five assists, five points (five attempts) and three blocked shots. Starters Josh Uduje and Will McClendon were missing for Sparta presumably due to illness.
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Mon, Feb 10, CCCMBCA scores
no Nor Cal games
Tue, Feb 11, CCCMBCA scores
Cosumnes River College 68, American River College 54
Diablo Valley College 67, Folsom Lake College 62
Sacramento City College 73, San Joaquin Delta College 65
Santa Rosa Junior College 76, Sierra College 55
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