Basketball Games

James Mosley scored 20 points and Emeka Okenwa added 19 to lead The Master's College to a 103-55 victory over Patten in a nonconference men's basketball game Thursday night at Newhall. Mosley (nine of 13) and Okenwa (eight of 10) helped the Mustangs (6-2) make 65.6% (40 of 61) of their shots. Doug Leaman added 18 points for The Master's, hitting six of seven shots, including three of four from three-point range.

SAN ANTONIO -- With the Clippers and Kings having playoff games on Sunday at Staples Center, a scheduling conflict could arise. The Kings are scheduled to play the Phoenix Coyotes in Game 4 of the NHL Western Conference finals at noon and the Clippers are scheduled to play the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals at 7:30 p.m. If the Kings go past one overtime period, the start of the Clippers' game could be...

Fifteen people were killed when an electrical wire fell into a crowd during a street basketball game in the town of Petit-Goave, electrocuting players and spectators, officials said. The accident happened Monday afternoon as dozens of people were watching the basketball game in the small coastal town. Petit-Goave Mayor Reginald Francois called the deaths a "real catastrophe" and said the Haitian government would pay funeral expenses for the dead.

Mohammad El-Akkari, a guard for the Mouttahed basketball team of Tripoli, scored 113 points in his team's 173-141 win over Bejjeh in a Lebanese Division A pro league game Tuesday night in Beirut, according to FIBAasia.net . If that's not amazing enough, El-Akkari came into the game averaging just 7.6 points. But according to the website, he made 40 of 69 shots, including 32 of 59 from three-point territory. All of this brings up the question: Does April Fool's Day fall on April 3 in the Lebanese pro basketball league?

Starting this season, UC Irvine Anteater fans are able to receive online broadcasts of the men's and women's basketball games by pointing their Web browsers to the home page of the campus communications office. To hear the play-by-play commentary of KUCI (88.9 FM) radio announcers Mark Roberts and Brian Underwood via the World Wide Web, listeners need to have a computer outfitted with a sound card, speakers or headphone, and a 14.4 bps or faster modem.

A basketball game between ninth-graders from Inglewood and Santa Monica high schools was canceled Friday, two weeks after a pair of Santa Monica High basketball players reported being robbed of their Walkman radios in Inglewood High's gymnasium. The boys basketball game, scheduled to be held in the Inglewood High gym, was canceled because an investigation of the alleged robbery had not been completed, said Sandor Rosenfield, an assistant principal at Santa Monica High.

The fifth San Gabriel Valley Hall of Fame all-star basketball games will be played Friday at Pasadena City College. The girls' game begins at 6 p.m., followed by the boys' game at 8. Steve Goldstein of La Salle will coach the West boys' team and Gordon Hamlow of Rowland will coach the East. Girls' coaches are Jerry DeLaurie of Blair for the West and Robert Miller of St. Paul for the East. Admission is $7. All proceeds go to the Hall of Fame's scholar-athlete program.

Two state all-star basketball games, featuring the top boys' and girls' high school seniors, have been scheduled for June 24 at UC Irvine's Bren Center. The doubleheader will have a North vs. South format with a squad of 11 graduating seniors on four teams. It will be the first state all-star boys' game since 1971, and the first state all-star girls' game. The rosters will be announced in two weeks.

Rosters were announced Wednesday for the 35th Orange County All-Star boys' and girls' basketball games, presented by the Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club. The games will be played April 15 at Orange Coast College.

Mater Dei's Miles Simon, a two-time Times Orange County boys' basketball player of the year, and Colleen Hudson and Sarah Beckley, members of Brea-Olinda's undefeated Division III State championship girls' team, are among a talented group of players in the 29th Orange County boys' and girls' all-star basketball games Saturday at Orange Coast College. The girls play at 4 p.m. and the boys at 7:30, with the gymnasium being cleared between games.

Max Guercy's journey in high school basketball ends Saturday in the Division III state championship game in Sacramento. What an appropriate setting for a senior point guard from Mission Hills Alemany whose resilience and perseverance have helped turn skeptics into believers. "From the beginning of the season, I played with a chip on my shoulder," he said. "This year, I've been able to win. The schools that have offered me scholarships, they're seeing that size doesn't matter and know I can play.

What lockout? AEG, the owner of Staples Center, said that in the first four months of this year, the arena will make up for most of the events lost in the previous four months, when contract disputes between the National Basketball Assn. and its players left many venues, including Staples, dark for much of the fall. Now that the NBA is back in full swing, the 20,000-seat arena in downtown Los Angeles is booked nearly to capacity with games and concerts through April 26, the end of the NBA's season.

St. Louis plays noisy basketball. Shoes squeak because the Billikens are always moving their feet, whether on offense or defense. Players shout. They chatter to each other, call out defenses, bark out what play has been called, warn each other away from screens. The 2,637 who came Sunday to the Anaheim Convention Center for the 76 Classic were rewarded hearing the sounds of a basketball team that has a good plan. St. Louis (6-0) won the championship with an 83-63 win over Oklahoma (4-1)

The creation of the Pac-12 Networks was announced Wednesday, with details about a television network covering schools in the West coming from league Commissioner Larry Scott in New York. Beginning in August 2012, the Pacific 12 Conference will offer one primary national channel and six regional channels matching up teams paired in the same area (USC and UCLA, for example) that will televise 350 events annually on the main channel and 500 more regionally. So far the Pac-12 has signed cable providers Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox and Bright House to distribute the seven network channels.

UCLA football season must be here. Quarterback Brett Hundley on Wednesday will have the torn meniscus in his knee surgically repaired after being injured while playing in a pickup basketball game last month. Meanwhile, cornerback Anthony Jefferson is mulling his options for treatment on a disk problem in his back. This has become business as usual for the Bruins, who were overwhelmed by injuries during a 4-8 season in 2010. Hundley, the centerpiece of the Bruins' last recruiting class, will miss three to four weeks.

Until entering high school, the only thing that made Aaron Liberman stand out on the basketball court was his growing 6-foot-5 frame. He was more of a celebrity for his height than a basketball player among his friends and family. "The summer I entered ninth grade is when a former coach told me that I could make something of this if I really pushed myself," Liberman said. "That's when I started to realize I had some talent. " Now standing 6-9, Liberman has not only become one of the most successful players in Southern California, but the senior forward also has been a driving force in helping a small Jewish school get its first taste of athletic success.

The last hoop was just like thousands of others, a sweet little jumper by Louis, the guy with a quick first step and a tattoo on his arm. As the ball dropped through the basket, the players sauntered off to the sidelines, dripping with sweat. Another Friday night basketball game was over, and it was time to go. But we lingered.

Two months after it was canceled because of slow ticket sales, a basketball game pitting members of the Crips and Bloods against the Los Angeles Police Department has been rescheduled for this Saturday at 6 p.m in the Cal State Los Angeles gym. Proceeds from the tickets, which range from $10 to $20, will benefit the Rev. E. V. Hill's World Christian Job Training Center in South-Central Los Angeles.

Some say, in regards to life, that the sweet is never as sweet without the sour. That helps explains why the Clippers' 106-103 win Wednesday against Houston was like a barrel of sugar for guard Mo Williams . No, it had little to do with Williams, newly acquired by the Clippers in a trade from Cleveland, winning and playing well (17 points, 11 assists) in his home debut at Staples Center. That was just the icing. It was winning in general that took the cake, because Williams hasn't had much of that this season, given the Cavaliers' NBA-record 26-game losing streak, which ended against the Clippers last month.