Season recap: Redondo’s boys basketball team goes for local talent
Junior forward Xan Wesley will return to lead Redondo’s basketball team in the 2019-20 campaign. Photo By Paul Teetor The Redondo boys basketball team lost its first and only post-season game last week, an 81-60 thumping at the hands of Harvard-Westlake in the CIF Division 1 playoffs. Harvard-Westlake of Studio City, which had beaten Redondo 62-39 earlier in the regular season, was unable to pull away until the second half. Led by Johnny Juzang, a 6-foot-7 junior who is ranked among the top 20 players of the class of 2020, they maintained a steady 5-10-point lead until the second half and then asserted their dominance. “They beat us with their size and their shooting,” said Redondo Head Coach Ali Parvez. “We’d already played them once, so I knew we would have to play a perfect game to beat them. We weren’t able to do that.” But the early end to the season after so many deep playoff runs in recent seasons didn’t prevent the second-year Sea Hawk coach from declaring the 2018-19 season a success with an overall record of 20-9 and a Bay League record of 8-2. The first and most important factor in that evaluation: “We won the Bay League for the seventh straight season,” he said. “That…
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