The 2019-2020 San Pedro Prep Basketball season has been in full swing for over a month now, and all six combined boys and girls teams from San Pedro, Mary Star Of The Sea and Port Of Los Angeles High Schools are looking to make potential runs in the postseason, while the boys and girls teams of Mary Star both have the most optimistic chances of winning a league championship.

Who will make the biggest shot of them all?

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MARY STAR – Four-time San Pedro News Pilot Prep Boys Basketball Player Of The Year & Mary Star's all-time leading scorer Joseph Octave is no longer around, but the Stars and fourth-year coach Mike Sestich aren't void of talent.

Testing themselves early in tournament play against several talented teams has Mary Star off to a current…

It was a season that hasn't happened in a long time for all of San Pedro Prep Football in 2019.

Both San Pedro and Mary Star Of The Sea High Schools capped off a season with either an outright (Marine) or share of (Camino Real) a league championship, and both also garnered a postseason victory.

For the Pirates (10-2 overall, 4-0 Marine League), they were able to post another magnificent season where they were able to nearly back up last year's run to the CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division 1 championship, with a semifinal appearance in the Open Division in which they were one quarter away from victory, losing 28-25 to eventual champion Birmingham of Lake Balboa after leading 17-7 through the first three frames,

San Pedro captured the outright Marine League title thanks to gaining a forfeit victory over powerhouse Narbonne of…

2019 was another great year in the annals of San Pedro Prep Sports.

San Pedro High girls soccer once again won the Marine League championship, for a fourteenth consecutive year. Mary Star High had a sensational winter with the boys basketball, boys and girls soccer teams all capturing a league championship, with the boys basketball team repeating as co-Santa Fe League champions.

Port Of Los Angeles girls cross-country won their first league title in five years when it captured the Imperial League crown, while POLA boys volleyball reached the CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division 3 quarterfinals.

Yet, those were just part of the many amazing stories that came out of 2019 as this decade comes to an end. Here are the top ten stories that grabbed the bigger headlines.

1. POLA Girls Volleyball: From The…

San Pedro High football was once again well represented on the 2019 All-CIF Los Angeles City Section selections with a dozen Open Division selections, and two of the Pirates got high honors.

A year removed from his CIF-LACS Division 1 Player Of The Year selection after guiding the Pirates to the 2018 Division 1 championship, UC Davis-bound RB/LB Joshua Ward got a second straight high honor by the City Section as the 2019 Open Division Defensive Player Of The Year. Senior OL/DL Matthew Rodriguez was also named the Open Division Offensive Player Of The Year to add on to his same honor given to him by the consensus Marine League coaches.

Ward led San Pedro in rushing yardages, rushing touchdowns, total touchdowns, all-purpose yardage, tackles, forced fumbles and fumble recoveries, while Rodriguez led an experienced offensive line that…

The 2019 San Pedro Prep Girls Volleyball season was full of excitement, and featured yet another storybook championship ending.

Making the biggest impact of the season was no doubt the Mary Star High girls volleyball team, as they got the season started off in grand fashion by sweeping host San Pedro 25-14, 25-13, 25-13 in an intersectional crosstown showdown on August 26.

It didn't stop from there, as the Stars continued to rack up victories all the way to a school-record 32 wins, finishing 32-4 and reaching the CIF-Southern Section Division 6 quarterfinals, where it fell in four sets to runner-up Nordhoff of Ojai. Mary Star also won the Artesia Tournament and more importantly in their eyes, regained the Camino Real League…

With everything San Pedro High football senior running back & linebacker Joshua Ward has accomplished in his four-year prep career, his latest and most important achievement and came Wednesday morning at San Pedro High.

The 2019 Marine League Most Valuable Player & 2018 CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division 1 Player Of The Year joins a successful recruiting class for the UC Davis football as one of sixteen prep football seniors who signed with the Aggies, who went 5-7 and placed fifth in the Big Sky Conference. UC Davis finished ninth in the country among FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) teams in 2018.

UC Davis is coached by former Boise State & Colorado coach Dan Hawkins.

"(UC Davis) had every thing I was looking for," said Ward, who helped guide the Pirates to a 10-2 record, the Marine League title (thanks…

Talk about taking something by force.

From the pregame shoot-around all the way to the singing of the alma mater, it was a night to remember for Mary Star High girls basketball.

In the first crosstown meeting with in-city neighbor San Pedro since the 2001-2002 season, it was a Star-studded performance from the opening tip as Mary Star bolted to a commanding lead in the first quarter and never looked back before steamrolling their way to a convincing 62-28 victory over the Pirates on Saturday at Mary Star High.

Mary Star (8-4 overall) made a massive statement in a crosstown battle that proved to all in attendance that they are more than capable of making another huge run after last year's incredible run to the CIF-Southern Section Division 5-AA semifinals and CIF Southern California Division 5 Regional quarterfinals.

The…

The maturation of Port Of Los Angeles High boys soccer continues to grow.

In the seventh all-time crosstown showdown with San Pedro, a year and a half removed from winning the 2018 CIF-Los Angeles City Section Division 4 championship, the Polar Bears finally rose to the challenge and took the fight right back to the host Pirates, battling to a 1-1 draw at Mike Walsh Pirate Stadium.

This latest battle marked the first time ever where San Pedro (3-4-2 overall) was unable to put away POLA (0-1-2), who narrowly lost 1-0 to the Pirates a year ago in what was the closest battle before Friday night's even result. San Pedro had owned the series with six straight victories, five of which were shutouts.

San Pedro would draw first blood as many expected in the eleventh minute when Ikemdinachi Ekwonye put in a shot with his left foot from…

On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, the sensational duo of Mary Star High softball made their commits to NCAA Division 1 schools in California their new homes at the next level upon graduation in late May 2020.

The senior duo of pitcher Alessandra Samperio and shortstop Ashley Rico both signed their respective national letters of intent to stay close to home and further their academic and athletic careers in college. Samperio will stay in the Southern California area and play at Loyola Marymount, while Rico will be headed to the Bay area and play at San Jose State where both figure to make an impact down the road.

Also, girls soccer senior goalie Kaya Lindberg signed with Northern Colorado, making it the first triple day signing day ceremony in Mary Star Of The Sea High School history in which three student athletes all signed with…

Let the postseason praise begin for Port Of Los Angeles High girls volleyball.

18 days after capturing the program's first-ever CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship when it bested East Valley of North Hollywood in the Division 4 final, the Polar Bears were awarded with high honors by the Section on Tuesday when the annual individual All-City selections were announced. Six of POLA's players were honored, with the biggest of them all going to senior middle blocker Kaylen Scott as the Division 4 Player Of The Year.

Scott was absolutely dominant in the postseason for POLA (15-7 overall), delivering 68 kills combined in the four playoff wins over Gardena, Maya Angelou, Los Angeles and East Valley, 26 of them coming in the title match against the Falcons when POLA won 22-25, 25-14, 25-23, 26-24 on November 8 at Birmingham High School,…