Marcus Ramirez, a senior point guard at Oxnard High School, is so talented on and off the basketball court that coach Jeff Staniland asks his youth coaches to bring their players into the gym just to watch him.
“He embodies everything you aspire your players to be,” he said.
Ramirez has a 4.5 grade point average and averages 17.5 points and 5.9 assists. He was the best player in the league last season.
“He’s a special kid,” Staniland said. “He’s a quiet kid off the field. He’s a fierce competitor on the field. You don’t want to play anything with him because he’ll come at you.”
Ramirez comes from a basketball family. His father, Joey, was a star player at Santa Paula, became a head coach at Ventura College and is now an assistant at Westmont College. Older brother Andrew plays at Westmont. Younger brother Eric is a freshman at college in Oxnard.
“He literally does everything for our program,” Staniland said. …
The Mission League Basketball Tournament will begin on Sunday, February 2, and will continue for four consecutive days. The final schedule will be determined after the games are played at the Intuit Dome on February 1. The highest seed will host the matches. …
The City Section will host football championship games at Los Angeles Valley College and Pasadena City College. …
The Southern Section basketball playoff pairings will be released on Saturday, February 8th.
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