war on the floor dayfour & five

Let's see, where did we leave off in our reporting from the War on the Floor when we last posted on Thursday? Oh yeah, we last reported the final pool play scores and then we got the playoff schedules posted for Friday and Saturday's games in the two single elimination brackets.

All of those games have now been played, and the tournament champion has been crowned. In case you really just have no patience and can't wait until the end of this article, we'll tell you who won the whole thing: It was Inglewood, which beat Alemany in the final game73-34.

It wasn't an especially pretty game, and Inglewood just pretty much demolished their two Mission League opponents, first Notre Dame 63-43 (and it wasn't that close for much of the game), and then the Alemany Indians got served up as DeAngelo Collins (6'-9" So. PF) proved that he's probably one of the best rising sophs, if not the best, on the west coast. The final was actually much more competitive than the score would indicate, and if DeAngelo wasn't present, as he wasn't the first time the two teams met in pool play, Alemany might have had a chance. But alas, reality has a way of settling in, and with Collins in the lineup, even not playing his best, it was just too much for the vertically challenged Indians, who have a very nice lineup, but unfortunately no one taller than 6'-1". We'll have more details on the final in a separate article. In the meantime, here's what happened, win/loss-wise, in the remainder of the games in the tournament. We got most (but not all) of the scores in both brackets, and here's what we know happened:

Championship Bracket

Consolation Bracket

First Round
Upper Bracket

Alemany (3-0)--Bye
Poly 58, Dorsey 56
Santa Monica 59, Sylmar 57
Saugus 51, Muir 78

Lower Bracket

Harvard-Westlake 49, Crespi 46
Marshall Fund. 53, Inglewood 62
Hart 51, Notre Dame 58
Buckley (3-0)-- Bye

Quarterfinals

Upper Bracket

Alemany 53, Poly 26
Santa Monica 57, Muir 53

Lower Bracket

Harvard Westlake 51, Inglewood 61
Notre Dame 47, Buckley 41

Semifinals

Alemany 62, Santa Monica 59
Inglewood 63, Notre Dame 43

Finals

Alemany 34, Inglewood 43

First Round
Upper Bracket

Cleveland--Bye
Canyon 33, Reseda 30
Chatsworth beat El Camino Real
Daniel Murphy 54, Granada Hills 31

Lower Bracket

Taft 80, Montclair Prep 51
Campbell Hall 2, Washington 0 (forfeit)
Hollywood 65, Canoga Park 73
Westlake--Bye

Quarterfinals

Upper Bracket

Cleveland beat Canyon
Chatsworth beat Daniel Murphy

Lower Bracket

Taft 2, Campbell Hall 0 (forfeit)
Westlake beat Canoga Park

Semifinals

Cleveland beat Chatsworth
Westlake beat Taft

Finals

Cleveland 93, Westlake 75