Hoops tourney comes to Ocean View

The Ocean View High School gymnasium on Sunday will showcase the

talents of some 180 boys’ high school basketball players in the fifth

annual Plyo City Roundball Extravaganza.

Eight games will be played at the gym highlighted by the main game

that will pit 12 of the top players from Orange County against 12 of the

top players from Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire.

“It’s a terrific event for everyone to come see,” said Mike Rangel,

executive director of the extravaganza. “This is a chance to see 180 of

the top players from all of Southern California play in one gym. It

should be a great day of basketball.”

The day’s action begins with a seventh-grade game featuring members of

the 2001 National Amateur Athletic Union championship team.

Huntington Beach will be represented in the game by Taylor King and

Corey Ferraro.

Three games featuring eighth-grade athletes -- 60 of the top

eighth-graders from the Southland, will follow the seventh-grade

showcase.

Jeff Hann, Caleb Rogers and Brad Sweeney of Ocean View, Casey Becker

of Marina, and Tim Golden, Mike Hardwick, T.J. Lipold, Thomas Marcin will

be competing in the eighth grade games.

Of the 20 players competing in the 10th-grade game, three hail from

Ocean View and two from Marina. Seahawks involved in the game are Greg

Okwudibonye, Matt Sargeant and Carter Wurts. Stephen Becker and James

Lambert will represent Marina.

Casey Ortiz of Ocean View will play in the 11th-grade game.

The main game will showcase 24 of the Southland’s top players, 10 of

which were All-Orange County this past year. Several of these players are

heading to Division I schools UCLA, Pepperdine, Oregon, Santa Clara,

Oklahoma State and the University of Pennsylvania.

In addition to the eight games that will be played Sunday, the

extravaganza will feature an exciting three-point contest and an

electrifying slam-dunk contest.

More than 6,000 people have attended the four previous Roundball

events.Ticket prices for an entire day of basketball are $5 per child and

$10 per adult. Half of the proceeds from pre-sale tickets will be benefit

the Ocean View High boys’ basketball program, with 20% of ticket sales

the day of the game going to the program.

Tip off for the first game will be 9 a.m. The main game will get

underway at 7 p.m.