Chargers can’t keep up with defending champs
Eisenhower’s boys basketball team is fast.
So fast, in fact, that Dos Pueblos coach Joe Zamora had his team playing 5-on-7 in practice to prepare. The strategy may have given the Chargers an idea of what they were up against, but it didn’t help them slow the Eagles down.
The defending CIF Division II-A state champs and [...]
Sea Kings sink threes to sink Royals
Ramon Mejia went off on Friday night, and it wound up ending San Marcos’ boys basketball season.
The junior guard hit eight treys — six in the fourth quarter — as the host Sea Kings (24-3) handed the Channel League champions a 67-48 loss in the second round of the CIF playoffs.
Johnny Manzo had 16 points [...]
Blocks, boards and Reed highlight Royals win
Benny Kirkwood was a sultan of swat, Christian Mkpado was chairman of the boards and Nate Reed had a moment he’ll tell his grandkids about.
It was a stellar way to start the playoffs for the San Marcos boys basketball team, as the Channel League champs picked up a 53-32 win over visiting Mountain View in [...]
Road-trippin Chargers claim postseason victory
Matt McClenathen silenced a raucous high school gymnasium in Garden Grove on Wednesday, getting the second of two put-backs to fall with five seconds left in Dos Pueblos’ CIF playoff opener.
The bucket gave the Chargers a one-point lead and a 55-54 postseason victory over Garden Grove, Dos Pueblos’ first road playoff win under head coach [...]
Cardinals crushed by third quarter
If it weren’t for a rough third quarter, Bishop Diego’s boys basketball team would have been right there with No. 5 seed St. Anthony.
Indeed the Cardinals lost the quarter by 12 and the game by 14, bowing out of the Div. V-A CIF playoffs after a 65-51 decision on Wednesday night.
“We played really well,” said [...]
Pacific Hills not so peaceful for Warriors
Trevor Madden posted a career-high 15 points for the Carpinteria boys basketball team on Wednesday, a bright spot in the Warriors’ season-ending 70-43 loss to Pacific Hills in the first round of the Div. IV-A CIF playoffs.
Madden knocked down three 3-pointers in the game and added six rebounds. Manny Rodriguez, the Warriors’ leading scorer for the season, [...]
Brethren Christian too tall an order for Owls
Laguna Blanca’s boys basketball team is one and done in this year’s CIF playoffs, falling at Brethren Christian 72-38 in the first round of the Division-V playoffs on Wednesday.
Luther Tarver-Burks again led the Owls in scoring, collecting 27 points against the Warriors.
“Luther had a great year,” said Laguna Blanca head coach Sal Rodriguez. “He basicaly [...]
Bishop gets in a funk against fellow Cardinals
Something just wasn’t right with the Cardinals on Friday.
The Bishop Diego Cardinals, that is.
Playing at a neutral site (Carpinteria High) in a boys basketball CIF play-in game, Bishop turned the ball over 23 times and fell to the Cardinals of Santa Paula, 51-32.
Bishop Diego's Paul Garcia (photo by James Sinclair)
“I think our performance speaks for [...]
Royals claim Channel League title at Ventura
From the bottom to the best.
The San Marcos boys basketball team completed its transformation Thursday night at Ventura High School with a 58-48 defeat of the Cougars to claim the Channel League championship after a 2-5 league season in 2009. It is the program’s eighth league title, with the last one coming in 2001-02 when [...]
Dons close up shop with loss to Bulldogs
The good news is that coach Chris Hantgin said that his Santa Barbara High boys basketball players were in “pretty good spirits” after closing a tough season with a 63-44 loss at Buena on Thursday.
“As painful as a 1-25 record is, it was enjoyable to work with them in practice and enjoyable to see them [...]
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