Renaissance wins regional title

By Keith Lair
ONTARIO – Did the basketball leave Marquise Mosley’s hand before the 30-second shot clock expired?
The Renaissance Academy junior guard said he was unsure. His coach, Sid Cooke, said the 3-pointer clearly beat the clock. View Park coach Ken Henderson said it did not.
No matter, the 3-pointer hit nothing but net with 3.3 seconds to play to give the Wildcats a 58-55 victory over View Park in the CIF State Division V Southern Regional championship game on Saturday afternoon at Colony High in Ontario.

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CIF State boys basketball playoffs: Santa Margarita rallies past St. Francis, 74-66


By Stephen Ramirez
steve.ramirez@langnews.com
@SteveRRamirez on Twitter
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA —
St. Francis High School’s best season ever is over, but the Golden Knights proved to be a tough out Saturday night.
Devonte Klines scored 22 points and Joe Furstinger had 19 and host Santa Margarita rallied for a 74-66 victory over St. Francis in a CIF State Southern California Regional Division III second-round boys basketball game.
Santa Margarita, also getting 10 points from Scott Wieserski, improved to 25-8 and will travel to Cathedral, an 82-52 winner over La Mirada in the regional semifinals on Tuesday.
St. Francis, which previously had never advanced to the CIF-Southern Section semifinals, finished 20-13, with a trip to the divisional finals and the state playoffs. Kyle Leufroy and Evan Crawford led the Golden Knights with 20 and 19 points, respectively.

For a while, it looked like the Golden Knights’ dream season might continue. They opened the second half with a 16-7 surge for a 54-48 lead late in the third quarter, and took a 55-52 advantage into the fourth. But eventually Santa Margarita’s size advantage, which features four players 6-foot-6 or higher, including Furstinger at 6-8, took it’s toll.
Wieserski made it 55-54 with two free throws at 7:47 before Klines hit a 3-pointer for a 57-55 lead 6:46, St. Francis’ Markar Agakanian made a layup to tie it before Santa Margarita put together a quick 7-0 blitz off turnovers and missed shots to go up 64-57 at 4:48 following a Furstinger putback, a 3-pointer by Yifan Shou and a fastbreak layup by Wieserski.
Wieserski and Furstinger made inside shots to push it to 70-59 with 2:23 left to all but clinch it. Crawford hit a 3-pointer to make it 72-66 with 37 seconds left, but Klines countered with a quick layup for a 74-66 lead with 29 seconds to play.

St. Francis co-head coach Ray O’Brien: “It was a great year. You saw the effort these kids putout tonight. We ended up coming up short in total points, but we probably played one of our best games of the year against a (CIF-SS) champion. They had a size advantage, but it didn’t kill us because of the effort these kids had and it was the same effort we’ve had all year. That’s why they have 20 wins, because of the effort they put out.”

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Monrovia blanks Alhambra to win Arcadia Elks Tournament … San Marino done in by Oak Hills ace Solomon Bates …

Arcadia Elks Championship

Monrovia 2, Alhambra 0 — Brian McConnell threw a one-hitter as Monrovia blanked a Marco Briones-less Moors team.

Nonleague

Oak Hills 5, San Marinp 0 — In a battle of aces, Oak Hills’ Solomon Bates got the better of San Marino’s Jeff Bain. Bates also went 3-4 at the plate to with his 11 Ks and six shutout innings.

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St. Francis (boys), La Canada (girls), South Pas (girls) all win on the road … Keppel (girls) lose a close one … Pas Poly (girls) cruise at home …

STATE PLAYOFFS

BOYS

Division 3

St. Francis 67, Kearny 62 — The Knights never trailed in the second half, but when things got hairy toward the end, Evan Crawford hit a 3-pointer with just over a minute to play to extend a four-point lead to seven.

The Knights improved to 20-12 and will play at Santa Margarita on Saturday night.

St. Francis standout Kyle Leufroy finished with 17 points, 11 of which came in the fourth quarter.

GIRLS

Division 1

Mission Hills 54, Keppel 50 — The Aztecs saw their season come to a close despite hanging tough on the road against Mission Hills.

Keppel lead by by two with just over two minutes to play, but foul trouble added up and the Aztecs couldn’t hold off the host Grizzlies.

Kelli Kamida led Keppel with 18 points and Sophia Song added nine. Keppel, which lost two games in the open division during the Southern Section playoffs, finished 25-4.

Division 3

South Pasadena 74, Sierra 69 — The Tigers got 28 points from Sophia Hathaway and double-digit performances from Lexie Scholtz, Kristen Kafkaloff and Elise Takahama to advance over host Sierra of Tollhouse.

South Pasadena improved to 21-6 and will play either Lakeside or Hoover in Saturday’s second round.

Clinging to a two-point lead in the final minute, Kafkaloff hit three free throws to keep Sierra, which never led in the second half, at bay.

La Canada 52, Eagle Rock 49 — Sarah Borland buried a 3-pointer in the closing seconds to bury Eagle Rock and send the Spartans onto the second round where they will play at top-seeded Santa Barbara on Saturday night.

Division 5

Pasadena Poly 71, Liberty Charter 26 — The Panthers opened a big early lead and never looked back. How big? Try 38-0. Nuff said.

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Soccer semifinals/Finals schedule

Scores from Tuesday’s games
BOYS
DIVISION 5
Marshall 2, Garden Grove Santiago 1

GIRLS
DIVISION 5
St. Margaret’s 1, San Marino 0
La Canada 2, Hemet 0
DIVISION 7
Gabrielino 4, Santa Clarita Christian 1

FINALS
FRIDAY

Marshall vs. Baldwin Park at Downey Warren HS, 5 p.m.
SATURDAY
La Canada vs. St. Margaret’s at Corona HS, 9:30 a.m.
Gabrielino vs. St. Monica at Warren, 9:30 a.m.

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