The league races are just starting to take shape. We’re starting to turn the corner from Spring Break and we’re about to find out who the league contenders are.
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Bishop O’Dowd High sophomore Ivan Rabb has been selected to 2013-14 USA Basketball Men’s Developmental National Team. The team is made up of 23 of the nation’s top under-16 players. The team members will train May 30-June 7 in Colorado Springs, Colo., and a 12-member team will be selected to travel to Maldonado, Uruguay, for the FIBA Americas under-16 championships, which are held June 11-15. That tournament serves as a qualifier to the 2014 FIBA under-17 World Championships.

It’s been a great season. Here’s our final East Bay high school girls basketball poll:

Also receiving votes: None. Records are final. The East Bay Girls Basketball Poll is voted on by the prep sports staff of Bay Area News Group-East Bay.

Here’s the final poll of the 2012-13 season. The All-East Bay teams will be published next week. The process of selecting them in ongoing this week, so if you want to throw a nomination of a player out there to be considered, feel free. I can’t guarantee anything, but they’ll be given a look.

Also receiving votes: None.  Records are final. The East Bay Boys Basketball Poll is voted on by the prep sports staff of Bay Area News Group East Bay.

Year in and year out, the East Bay Athletic League is the best boys volleyball league in the East Bay. But is the Mission Valley Athletic League starting to catch up?
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Here are the boys All-East Bay soccer teams.
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Saint Mary’s College announced today that St. Joseph Notre Dame High distance running star Kimberly Avalos has signed with the Gaels.
In cross country last fall, Avalos placed sixth in the California Interscholastic Federation Division V girls state championship race with a time of 18 minutes, 43 seconds for the 3.1-mile Woodward Park-Fresno course. She also was sixth in the North Coast Section Division V girls championship race and second in the Tri-County Athletic League girls championship race.

Diablo Valley College defensive end Tui Talia, an Ygnacio Valley High graduate and a top prospect, has orally committed to Washington for the 2014 class, according to Scout.com.

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The Deer Valley Tournament always gives us a great idea of which teams are going to be contenders, and it did so again this year. It reaffirmed some things, and it enlightened us to some things as well.
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Join the Bay Area News Group prep sports reporters all day for a live blog from Saturday’s NorCal high school basketball playoff championships, semifinals, beginning at 10 a.m.