Kai Labasan’s late free throw gives La Mirada first CIF State Boys Baketball Division II title

La Mirada’s Dylan Banks (1), Vittorio Reynoso-Avila (4), Anthony Newman (11) and Dezmon Murphy (25) celebrate as the final buzzer sounds at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, March 28, 2015. 2nd half of CIF State Division 2 boys basketball final between La Mirada vs Archbishop Mitty. La Mirada won 71-70 in double overtime. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze)

By Evan Barnes

BERKELEY — La Mirada junior Kai Labasan stepped to the free-throw line with 9.1 seconds left and his Matadores tied at 70 in double overtime on Saturday.
No pressure, right? Just a chance to win the CIF State Division II boys basketball championship against Archbishop Mitty of San Jose.
Labasan missed the first and without hesitation, he gathered himself and fired the second shot.
Nothing but net.
The Matadores (31-5) then survived a last-second shot attempt by Mitty’s Cameron Korb before celebrating a 71-70 win at UC Berkeley’s Haas Pavilion to clinch the program’s first-ever state championship.