westchester tournament

	What:	1st Annual Westchester Varsity Classic Tournament
	When:	Dec. 4-8, 2001
	Where:	Westchester HS 7400 Manchester Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90045
	Who:	8 Top-Ranked Teams From SoCal

There's little doubt that the LA City Section this year has some of the best teams in SoCal, and indeed the entire country. There's also very little doubt that with players like Hassan Adams, Brandon Heath, Keith Everage, Ashanti Cook, Scott Cutley, and others, Westchester HS is arguably among the top 10 teams in the country this year. So it's only fitting that Westchester will choose to stay home early and host its own tournament this year, inviting some of the other top teams in the region in for a little party.

Who else is coming? Here's the list: Fairfax, Pasadena, Compton Dominguez, San Diego Horizon, LA Locke, Washington, Hawthorne, and of course, Westchester. Sounds like a nice, small 8-team tournament. Very nice.....

The tournament will start on December 4 and 5, with a series of "play in" or "out of bracket" games, meaning that these won't count towards the tournament championship, but will just be a warmup (we're guessing that what happened with this is that the tournament was originally planned as a 16-team tournament, but given other commitments from other top schools in the region, Ed Azzam & staff decided to trim it back to just 8 teams). Here's the schedule for the first two days of play, which again, don't count towards the finals:

Tuesday, December 4, 2001
5:00 p.m.	Fairfax vs Pasadena
6:30 p.m.	Dominguez vs Horizon
Wednesday, December 5, 2001
5:00 p.m.	Washington vs Hawthorne
6:30 p.m.	Locke vs Westchester

The actual tournament play schedule (i.e., games that "count") starts on December 6, 2001, and is as follows:

Thursday, December 6, 2001
3:00 p.m.	Hawthorne vs Westchester (Game 1)
6:15 p.m.	Dominguez vs Pasaadena (Game 2)
4:30 p.m	Washington vs Fairfax (Game 3)
7:45 p.m.	Locke vs Horizon (Game 4)

The rest of the tournament schedule really won't make sense unless you see it on a bracket. Here's what it looks like:

Sat 12/8	Fri 12/7	Thurs 12/6	Fri 12/7	Sat 12/8
Winner #6 Game #10 5th Place 4:30 p.m.. Winner #5	Loser #1 Game #6 4:30 p.m. Loser #2	Hawthorne Game #1 3:00 p.m. Westchester	Winner #1 Game #8 7:45 p.m. Winner #2	Winner #8 Game # Championship 8:00 p.m. Winner #7
		Dominguez Game#2 6:15 p.m. Pasadena
	Loser #3 Game #5 3:00 p.m. Loser #4	Washington Game #3 4:30 p.m. Fairfax	Winner #3 Game #7 6:15 p.m. Winner #4
		Locke Game #4 7:45 p.m. Horizon
Consolation/Loser's Bracket Games
Sat 12/8				Sat 12/8
Loser #5 Game #9 7th Place 3:00 p.m. Loser #6				Loser #8 Game #11 3rd Place 6:15 p.m. Loser #7

And for those of you who prefer such things in text format, here's what it looks like

Friday, December 7, 2001
3:00 p.m.	Loser Game 3 vs Loser Game 4 (Game 5)
4:30 p.m.	Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2 (Game 6)
6:15 p.m.	Winner Game 3 vs Winner Game 4 (Game 7)
7:45 p.m.	Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 2 (Game 8)
Saturday, December 8, 2001
3:00 p.m.	Loser Game 5 vs Loser Game 6 (7th place, Game 9)
4:30 p.m.	Winner Game 5 vs Winner Game 6 (5th place, Game 10)
6:15 p.m.	Loser Game 8 vs Loser Game 7 (3rd place, Game 11)
8:00 p.m.	Winner Game 8 v. Winner Game 7 (Championship Game)

We want to thank Stuart Koss, the Westchester team manager for sending us this info.