Larrea Memorial Tournament is Dec. 3-4
Varsity field includes Clear Lake, Lower Lake, Fort Bragg
LAKEPORT >> The third annual Paul Larrea Memorial Tournament featuring junior varsity and varsity boys basketball teams tips off Dec. 3 and runs through Dec. 4 at the Clear Lake High School gym in Lakeport.
Competing teams in the varsity bracket are two-time defending champion Clear Lake, Lower Lake, Vacaville Christian and Fort Bragg, which replaces The Bay School (San Francisco) after that team dropped out of the tournament last week. The junior varsity field includes twotime defending champion Clear Lake, Lower Lake, Fort Bragg and Vacaville Christian.
Teams in both the varsity and JV divisions play one game Friday and two games Saturday. The round-robin format determines the winners.
Friday’s schedule begins with two JV games — Fort Bragg vs. Lower Lake at 3 p.m. and Vacaville Christian vs. Clear Lake at 4:30 p.m. Two varsity games follow — Fort Bragg vs. Lower Lake at 6 p.m. and Clear Lake vs. Vacaville Christian at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday’s JV schedule features Lower Lake-Vacaville Christian at 9 a.m., Fort Bragg vs. Clear Lake at 10:30 a.m., Vacaville Christian vs. Fort Bragg at 3:15 p.m., and Lower Lake vs. Clear Lake at 4:45 p.m.
Saturday’s varsity schedule features Lower Lake vs. Vacaville Christian at noon, Fort Bragg vs. Clear Lake at 1:30 p.m., Vacaville Christian vs. Fort Bragg at 6:15 p.m., and Lower Lake vs. Clear Lake at 7:45 p.m.
A 3-point contest for JV and varsity players takes place at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The inaugural Paul Larrea Memorial took place in 2018 when Clear Lake won both divisions. The host Cardinals repeated as champions in both the JV and varsity divisions again in 2019. No tournament took place a year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2019, Clear Lake’s Ethan
Maize was named the MVP in the JV division while Darius Ford won the Ryan Mayer MVP Award in the varsity division and Travis Howe received the Paul Larrea Inspirational Award.
The tournament honors the memory of the school’s longtime counselor, drama teacher and girls soccer coach, as well as the late Ryan Mayer, a standout player for the Cardinals who graduated in 2002.