Owls’ playoff flight grounded
The most successful girls basketball season in Laguna Blanca’s school history came to a close on Wednesday night, as the Owls were stopped 50-45 at Merovick Gym by third-seeded Hillcrest Christian in CIF’s Division VI-AA quarterfinals.
Head coach Ernie Quiroz’s Owls finish with a 13-8 record in a season that included a Condor League championship and two playoff wins. [...]
Schulenberg’s 21 runs Owls into next round
Amanda Schulenberg poured in 21 points on Saturday, taking the Laguna Blanca girls basketball team past Hesperia Christian 60-57 in the second round of the Div. VI-AA playoffs.
Hesperia Christian rallied in the fourth quarter by outscoring the Owls by seven but the Patriots ran out of time.
Megan McAlister was a force in the lane, recording nine [...]
Top-seeded Bell-Jeff eats up Warriors
Carpinteria’s girls basketball team ran up against No. 1-seeded Bell-Jeff in the second round of the CIF Division V-A playoffs on Saturday, suffering a 65-17 defeat to the defending state champions.
“I’m really proud of my kids, we played hard,” said Warriors head coach Dan Mercer, whose team finishes its season with a 16-10 record.
Jasmine Smith’s [...]
Irvine stops Dons in second round
Santa Barbara High’s girls basketball nearly overcame a poor shooting night to get a CIF playoff victory on the road on Saturday, falling short at Irvine by a score of 56-53 in Division III-A’s second round.
Irvine’s Kristan Liddle, with 25 points, got the best of Santa Barbara’s Rebecca Griffin, who had 21 points in her [...]
Bishop’s season vanishes at Villanova
Villanova’s rims were a bit too stiff for Bishop Diego’s girls basketball team on Saturday, deflecting many a Cardinal shot in a 49-34 Wildcats victory in the second round of CIF’s Division V-A playoffs.
“We had our chances, we just didn’t shoot the ball very well,” said Cardinals head coach Jeff Burich.
Bishop also let go of [...]
Dons pick up a sloppy opening-round win
It wasn’t the kind of performance Santa Barbara displayed in big wins over Ventura and Buena this season, but it was enough for the Dons to slip past scrappy Paso Robles in a first-round game of the CIF Division III-A girls basketball playoffs.
Tess Emerson scored 14 points and Rebecca Griffin added 11 to lead Santa [...]
Kohler, Cards leap over loud Toads
Janelle Kohler had 13 points and 13 rebounds on Thursday as the Bishop Diego girls basketball team ran over Thacher 51-32 Thursday in the first round of CIF Division V-AA play.
Coach Jeff Burich said that the Toads’ crowd was the loudest the Cardinals have played in front of all season, but his team was able [...]
Wallace, Warriors work over Flashes
Caitlin Wallace carried Carpinteria’s girls basketball team in Thursday’s CIF Div. IV-A playoff opener, scoring a game-high 25 points to lead the Warriors into the second round with a 49-46 victory over Fillmore.
Wallace’s solid game was especially important because co-captain Amanda Burch was forced to the bench early in the third quarter with her fourth foul. At [...]
Owls fly past Ravens with ease, 63-15
It was 38-7 at halftime and the Laguna Blanca starters were riding the pine for most of the game.
That’s how first-round playoff match-ups are sometimes.
Megan McAlister scored 13 points and freshman Zoe Serbin added nine with eight rebounds as the Condor League champion Owls overwhelmed visiting Waverly, 63-15, in a girls basketball playoff victory on [...]
McAlister, Owls win Condor League title
Megan McAlister put up big numbers in her team’s biggest game of the year on Friday.
The Laguna Blanca senior scored 15 points with 18 rebounds and seven steals as the Owls beat visiting Thacher 41-36 for the Condor League girls basketball title.
Laguna (11-7, 5-1) trailed by 10 at halftime but cut the deficit to one [...]
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