Pioneer teams work overtime

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Tony Ciniglio
on January 17, 2009 10:38 AM | | Comments (0) |

hechanova.jpgIn addition to Westchester's impressive victory at Fairfax, the big winners from Friday night's boys basketball games were Pioneer League rivals North Torrance and Lawndale.

Both teams posted double-overtime victories to remain unbeaten in league play.

Daren Hechanova, pictured from a file photo, scored 30 points and went 4-for-4 from the free-throw line in the second overtime in a wild 107-103 victory at Centennial, the Saxons' first win at Centennial in Coach Gary Duperron's eight-year tenure. Danish Mansoor hit a 3-pointer to force the second overtime period, and football star B.J. Denker sank two free throws in the closing seconds of regulation to force OT.

Lawndale enjoyed a dramatic 52-49 win over South Torrance as Markeith Cungious hit a 3-pointer with one minute left in the second overtime. Cungious had 13 points and 14 rebounds, and Marquel Jones had a team-leading 26 points.

When North and Lawndale meet, it should be a battle. Don't be surprised if it even goes to overtime.

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Tony Ciniglio has been covering sports at the Daily Breeze since 1997 and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

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Dave Thorpe

Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports since 2007.

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