Girls Basketball: Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary routs Bonita to advance to Covina Tourney semis

Cantwell Sacred Heart's Lilly Perkins (4) drives to the basket over Bonita's Sami Riggs (20) in the first half of the Covina Winter Classic in Covina, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2016. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

Cantwell Sacred Heart’s Lilly Perkins (4) drives to the basket over Bonita’s Sami Riggs (20) in the first half of the Covina Winter Classic in Covina, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2016. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)


COVINA — Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School’s Lily Perkins has been one of the better players in the area during the past three seasons, and she showed Wednesday that’s continuing in 2016-17.
Perkins scored 17 points and had seven rebounds to lead the Cardinals to a 49-30 victory over Bonita in a Covina Classic quarterfinal at Covina High.
Emily Guerena had 11 points and 10 rebounds and Victoria Guerrero 10 points and eight rebounds for CSHM (4-2), which advanced to face Eastvale Roosevelt, a 69-33 winner over Los Altos, in Friday’s semifinals. The game is tentatively scheduled for 6:30 at Covina High, but it may be moved to 8 p.m. to accommodate Valley View, which faces host Covina in the other semifinal. Valley View’s football team is in the CIF State football finals and plays Friday.
Covina advanced with a 49-36 win over South Hills, with Valley View defeating Bishop Amat, 68-47.

Bonita (3-2) got 12 points from Sami Riggs,
The Cardinals, who closed the first half with an 11-2 run, opened the third quarter with a 15-1 surge to go up 36-20.
Bonita coach Darren Baumunk: “(Perkins) is very good. We watched her play the other night, so we knew what kind of a basketball player she was. It was a challenge for our players to step up against a player like that. I thought in the first half, for the most part we did OK. But the second half, we just seemed to let her do whatever she wanted to do.”
CSHM’s Lily Perkins: “We just talked at halftime. We weren’t going to let (Bonita) take this game. We just pushed through. We just executed. We are trying to win every game we can. We led the team.”
— Stephen Ramirez

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