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High School  | General | 4/2/2018

So Cal's best ready to compete

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National High School Top 50

The Southern edition of the Boras Classic kicks off on Tuesday, April 3, and Perfect Game will be on hand to see some of the top talent that Southern California has to offer. Orange Lutheran, Mater Dei and Santiago all participated at the recently completed National High School Invitational and will be thrown right back into the gauntlet, as, just glancing over the rosters and teams, the event is stacked with elite, national-level type programs. 

The 16-team bracket features two sites, one at JSerra High School and the other at Mater Dei High School, and begins at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday. Five teams currently ranked in the Perfect Game National High School Top 50 will be participating in the event, led by the highest ranked California team in the country, No. 7 Notre Dame. Orange Lutheran is currently No. 13 but might very well be the most talented team in the country as it have tremendous depth and is coming off the heels of capturing the NHSI title. 

Cathedral Catholic (No. 20), Huntington Beach (No. 32) and Harvard-Westlake (No. 38) round out the remainder of the teams in the Top 50, while Mater Dei started the year at No. 10 in the preseason rankings and El Toro was also previously ranked. The rest of the field features a number of top-end programs including JSerra, La Mirada, Etiwanda, Santiago, Simi Valley, Newbury Park, Vista Murrieta, West Ranch and South Hills.

The Boras Classic is always one of the top events of the year in Southern California while Basic (Nev.) captured the Arizona edition of the event earlier this year and Bellarmine Prep (Calif.) won the North California edition. Both schools won their respective event for the second consecutive year. 

There is sure to be a lot of heat in to see these teams as two projected first-round picks will be participating in the event in Orange Lutheran righthander Cole Winn and Santiago shortstop Brice Turang, both of whom are coming off strong performances at the NHSI. Turang and South Hills shortstop Brandon Dieter will be the two participating PG All-Americans in the event while Mater Dei outfielder Vinny Tosti, also a PG All-American, has been sidelined with an injury and his status for the Boras Classic is unknown. 

Many potential PG All-Americans for this year's Classic will be participating in the event as there are eight players in the top 150 of the 2019 rankings on the teams' rosters, led by Orange Lutheran outfielder Jasiah Dixon (No. 20) and Huntington Beach first baseman/lefthanded pitcer Joshua Hahn (No. 36). The three top-ranked sophomores participating are La Mirada third baseman/right-handed pitcher Jared Jones (No. 8), Notre Dame left-handed pitcher Lucas Gordon (No. 15) and Harvard-Westlake outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong (No. 20). Orange Lutheran infielder Tank Espalin (No. 34) is also expected to make his much-anticipated season debut this week to further bolster a loaded squad.

For the full bracket of the week's times and locations be sure to check the bracket here:

http://borasclassicca.com/tournament-info/south-classic/brackets-s/

Here are the first-round matchups set to begin on Tuesday, April 3. The number in parenthesis is where the team was ranked in Perfect Game's National High School Top 50 from last week Wednesday, March 27.

JSerra High School
9:00 a.m. – Orange Lutheran (13) vs. El Toro
12:00 p.m. – Harvard-Westlake (38) vs. Santiago
3:00 p.m. – Simi Valley vs. Cathedral Catholic (20)
6:00 p.m. – JSerra vs. Newbury Park

Mater Dei High School
9:00 a.m. – Huntington Beach (32) vs. South Hills
12:00 p.m. – Notre Dame (7) vs. Etiwanda
3:00 p.m. – La Mirada vs. Vista Murrieta
6:00 p.m. – Mater Dei vs. West Ranch

Here's a look at the top 10 prospects participating in this year's Boras Classic from the high school classes of 2018-2020 (CA = PG California state rank, Nat'l = PG National rank):

2018

CA Nat'l Player School
1 10 Brice Turang Santiago
2 23 Cole Winn Orange Lutheran
6 54 Brandon Dieter South Hills
7 56 Vinny Tosti Mater Dei
14 102 Emilio Rosas Mater Dei
15 105 Erik Tolman El Toro
16 113 Owen Sharts Simi Valley
20 139 Jake Moberg Vista Murrieta
26 179 Grant Burton Mater Dei
31 247 Nick Nastrini Cathedral Catholic

2019

CA Nat'l Player School
2 20 Jasiah Dixon Orange Lutheran
4 36 Joshua Hahn Huntington Beach
8 55 Justin Campbell Simi Valley
9 71 Garrett Frechette Cathedral Catholic
10 72 Hunter Cope Mater Dei
16 93 Sam Hliboki Harvard-Westlake
20 104 C.J. Rodriguez Mater Dei
21 109 Cody Freeman Etiwanda
28 151 Hunter Cranton Mater Dei
29 157 Cole Dale Notre Dame

2020

CA Nat'l Player School
1 8 Jared Jones La Mirada
2 15 Lucas Gordon Notre Dame
3 20 Pete Crow-Armstrong Harvard-Westlake
5 34 Tank Espalin Orange Lutheran
9 49 Daylen Reyes Notre Dame
10 50 Christian Rodriguez Orange Lutheran
12 59 Drew Bowser Harvard-Westlake
14 78 Max Rajcic Orange Lutheran
16 102 Tyler Stromsborg Notre Dame
18 111 Devan Ornelas Notre Dame

In addition, the 2021 class offers a handful of talented freshmen as well with Alonzo Tredwell (Mater Dei HS, 22nd national rank), Zack Torres (Cathedral Catholic HS, 82) and Shane Stafford (Huntington Beach HS, 91) standing out.

Stay tuned to Perfect Game this week for daily updates on the top prospect standouts.




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