Redmond's Azlynn Ure goes up for a layup during the Redmond girls basketball team's 58-50 loss to Silverton Saturday evening in Redmond.

The Christmas holidays are here, which means high school basketball tournaments are just a few days away.

This week, Redmond teams will play in their final regular-season tournaments before conference play begins in early-to-mid January.

The highest concentration of local basketball players will be playing in Bend at the annual Oregon Holiday Hoopfest Friday through Sunday at Caldera and Summit high schools.

Five of the 16 teams in the boys tournament are from Central Oregon, including Redmond High. They will join Summit, Mountain View, Crook County and Caldera in the three-day tournament. Mountain View won the tournament a year ago, beating Caldera in the championship game.

The 16 teams are broken up into two separate eight-team brackets. The East Bracket will be played at Caldera High and will include Redmond, Crater, Sheldon, McNary, La Salle, Crook County, Forest Grove and Caldera.

Redmond, winners of five straight games and champions of last week’s South Coast Les Schwab Holiday Classic, has an intriguing matchup in the first round against Crater, another Class 5A state tournament hopeful.

The Ridgeview girls will play in the SCTC Holiday Classic starting Thursday at Stayton High School. The Madras and Sisters boys and girls teams are scheduled to play in the Sisters Tournament beginning Thursday, Jan. 2.