{"id":472960,"date":"2026-02-11T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472960\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:07:07","slug":"san-pedro-vs-washington-prep-tops-city-basketball-playoff-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472960\/","title":{"rendered":"San Pedro vs. Washington Prep tops City basketball playoff openers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The high school basketball playoffs begin on Wednesday throughout the Southland, and there\u2019s no doubt what should be the best opening matchuip in the City Section: San Pedro at Washington Prep.<\/p>\n

No. 5-seeded San Pedro (22-6) won the Marine League title and has a veteran team under coach John Bobich. No. 4-seeded Washington Prep (17-11) won the Coliseum League title has the City Section\u2019s leading scorer in Jayshawn Kibble, who\u2019s averaging 28 points a game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re ready,\u201d Washington Prep coach Jovante King said. Washington Prep lost to Cleveland last season in an Open Division first-round game. <\/p>\n

The winner will face either top-seeded Palisades or No. 8-seeded El Camino Real in the semifinals on Feb. 21 at L.A. Southwest College. A Washington Prep-Palisades game would be almost a home game for Washington Prep.<\/p>\n

San Pedro likes to play zone defense and rely on its three-point shooting.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the link to City Section pairings. <\/a> <\/p>\n

The Southern Section Open Division begins with Mission League rivals Crespi and top-seeded Sierra Canyon playing at Sierra Canyon. Crespi has been showing improvement in recent weeks, defeating Harvard-Westlake and putting a scare into Sherman Oaks Notre Dame before losing.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the Southern Section schedule.<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The high school basketball playoffs begin on Wednesday throughout the Southland, and there\u2019s no doubt what should be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,241237,64724,202488,241239,182577,1862,62479,241238,1463,198205,66889,163522,25906,241236,85,241235],"class_list":["post-472960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-city-basketball-playoff-opener","tag-city-section","tag-crespi","tag-el-camino-real","tag-feb","tag-game","tag-improvement","tag-marine-league-title","tag-no","tag-palisades","tag-recent-week","tag-san-pedro","tag-semifinal","tag-sierra-canyon-playing","tag-sports","tag-washington-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}