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SoCalHoops High School News

CIF SS Playoffs: Agoura Loses To
Redondo In D-IIAA--(Feb. 19, 1999)

Man, we get some angry mail sometimes, including one person who wrote to us demanding to know why we didn't have anything up earlier on the Thursday night first round game between Agoura (Marmonte #3) and Redondo Union (Bay #2). Well, part of the answer is, "we didn't know that the game was being played Thursday." And how could we? The bracket sheets indicated that this game was going to be played on Friday, and nothing else we read or saw told us anything different. So when we opened up this morning's papers, man were we surprised to see that the game had actually taken place Thursday night at Redondo Union. And there it was, the boxscore, in black and white, and the cold hard numbers said that Agoura had lost, and Redondo Union had survived.

The final score was Redondo 82, Agoura 69, but that hardly told the story.

So we went looking around for someone who had been there, someone who could shed some light on what had happened. The Daily Breeze, which usually covers Redondo (20-6), Mira Costa, and other schools in the South Bay, came through again, and based on their report, it looks like Agoura's Garrett Lepisto and Adam Allegro (6'-5" So. SF) both had great games, scoring 26 and 17 respectively, but it also looks like Walter White and Andrew Zahn had better games, White hitting for 31 points, and Zahn getting 26 points and 10 rebounds.

And Redondo Union also survived playing from behind for all but 4 minutes, 52 seconds of the game (that's roughly the last half of the 4th quarter for those of you who didn't know).If the game was ever in doubt though, Redondo put the game on ice, and they also iced Lepisto and Allegro in the process, outscoring the Chargers, 30-8 in the fourth quarter. But Agoura, which had shot very well in the first three quarters, scoring 20, 16, and 25 points in those first three, simply couldn't handle the full court pressure, and finishes it's season at 13-14 overall. Agoura came out on fire, with Lepisto scoring 19 of his 26 points in the first half. He hit 6 of 12 three-pointers, and the Chargers made 10 for 24 from behind the three-point arc. Lepisto, who came into the game averaging 18.7 points, hit for 11 of his 26 points in the first quarter, and at the end as Agoura surged to a 20-16 lead. The 6-3 senior continued his hot shooting in the second quarter, scoring eight straight points to give Agoura a 36-33 lead.

Agoura followed a 9-for-13 third-quarter shooting performance, which gave it a nine-point lead going into the fourth, by missing eight of nine attempts in the final quarter, turning the ball over six times in 8 minutes. After trailing for most of the game Redondo cut into Agoura's nine-point lead with two consecutive Titus Hunt three-pointers. Following a Zahn tip-in, which gave Redondo a lead it never relinquished, Zahn and White just went nuts in the paint; 18 of White's points came in the fourth quarter, a good number of them in the last four minutes.

For Agoura, other scorers were Patterson with 11, Morrow 6, Woodert 5, Adam Sacks had 3, and Jouvin 1. For Redondo, Ellison had 2, Hunt had 8, Dijon Thompson had 9, Mathis 4, Buck 2, and Walter White and Andrew Zahn had (as we said before) 31 and 26 respectively.

Redondo advances and gets the winner of Friday night's Burroughs-Paso Robles game on Tuesday Feb. 23. The site will be determined by a coin flip which was held this morning at the CIF SS offices, and even though some people know the location, we don't. We'll have it up later.