Boys Basketball:
The Gary Prestesater Classic (San Dimas Boys Basketball Tournament), which is nearing its 50th year, tips off on Monday at SDHS and Glendora High School.
The 16-team, six-day showcase runs through Saturday.
This 2023 Prestesater Classic features a competitive list of programs from different regions and leagues.
Seven of the 16 were league champions in 2022-23, including San Dimas, Glendora, Walnut, Don Lugo, Bosco Tech, Eagle Rock, and Western Christian.
Bosco Tech had a remarkable season, going 27-7, and earning themselves a CIF-SS Division 5AA title.
The Tigers return all five starters and several key reserves.
Eagle Rock went 24-6, and they claimed an L.A. City Section championship in D-2A.
San Dimas (25-7) made an appearance in the CIF D-3AA quarterfinal round.
Ontario Christian was a D-3AA semifinalist, and the Knights competed in the state tournament.
Walnut High had a record-setting 2022-23 season.
The Mustangs were 31-3 before being knocked out in the quarterfinal round of the D-2A playoffs.
Glendora (21-8) won a share of the Palomares League championship, and they return most of their key contributors in 2023-24.
The tournament began in the 1970’s with Coach Bob Espinosa, and it has outlasted the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations.
In 2014, then SDHS coach, Gordon Hamlow, renamed the event after the San Dimas boys basketball legend, Gary Prestesater.
Prestesater won north of 500 games at SDHS, and that included a CIF title in 1999.
Hamlow currently leads his alma mater at GHS, and his APU Hall of Fame father, Cliff Hamlow, still serves on his bench.
Prestesater earned his spot in the Azusa Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.
He was a member of that program from 1963-1965.
Throughout his career, Prestesater scored 1,485 points, and averaged 31.6 points per game.
The SDHS gym fittingly boasts a banner that reads “The House that Pres Built.”
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