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SoCal High School & Prep Report

Southern Section Playoffs: All The Division
IV-AA Scores & Highlights--(February 21, 1998)

Again, the high desert proves to be the most difficult to get information on, and all we've got on the Rosamond loss to Beaumont is a line score, but it's better than nothing. We delayed posting this to be certain we could get as much information as possible and to insure that it was correct. We hope it doesn't disappoint anyone.

So here's what happened last night in IV-AA Southern Section Playoff action. The #'s refer only to a teams seeding within it's own Regional Bracket within the Division. Overall in the Division IV-AA bracket, the No. 1 Seed is Twentynine Palms; No. 2 Calvary Chapel, Santa Ana; No. 3. Marshall; and No. 4 St. Joseph, Santa Maria, and all of the top seeds won their games, except Rosamond, which lost to Beaumont. Here's a look, region by region, at each game in order according to the bracketing:

Division IV-AA

Region I

Game 1: #1 Twentynine Palms 84, #4 Bishop Union 57

The Twentynine Palms Wildcats overcame a tough night behind the arc with tenacious man to man halfcourt defense en route to defeating the Bishop Broncos 84-57. Despite going 3 for 19 from behind the three point line, Twentynine Palms jumped out to a 21- 6 first quarter lead and never looked back. Twentynine Palms was led by Sophmore forward Vili Morton's 21 points and 14 rebounds, and Junior Forward, Maurice Buchanan's 20 points and 10 rebounds. Senior guard Lance Ray added 25 points and Senior point guard Anthony Jackson added 10 assists for the Wildcats. Twentynine Palms (23-3) will travel to Beaumont on Tuesday to play the Cougars who defeated Rosamond 73-68 in overtime to win their first round game. Thanks to our friend rwright@cci-29palms.com who mailed us the score and details of this game, and the score of the

Game 2: # 3 Beaumont 73, # 2 Rosamond 68

We've only got a line score for this one, and it looks like it was a minor upset at Rosamond lost at home. Beaumont advances to the next round and will play Twentynine Palms.

Region II

Game 1: #1 Calvary Chapel 53, #4 El Segundo 39

Calvary Chapel improved to 21-6 with this win as Joe Ortiz scored a game high 22 ponts and Brett Yound added another 21 to lead the host Eagles over El Segundo which ends its season at 10-17. Timb Bker also grabbed 15 rebounds for Calvary Chapel, which will play Laguna Beach in the second round on Tuesday.

Game 2: #2 Laguna Beach 63, #3 St. Paul 58

B.J. Jamieson and Nick Reynolds led the host Artists, who improved to 17-10 overall, with 14 ponts each. St. Paul concludes it's season with a record of 14-13. Chris Sirianni added another 13 ponts, including 6 for 9 from the field in the third quarter. Laguna Beach will play Calvary Chapel on Tuesday.

Region III

Game 1: #1 Marshall 85, #4 Murphy 60

Deverion Mackey led all scorers with 21 points to go along with his 13 rebounds as the Eagles cruised into the second round. Marshall took a 15-0 lead to start the game. Murphy concludes its season with a record of 9-18, and with a record like that you have to wonder what the CIF seeding committee was thinking allowing them into post season play. During the fourth quarter the Eagles led by as many as 30, as Murphy struggled. Brian Holifield had 16 ponts and 12 rebounds and Aaron Taylor scored 11 points and had seven steals. Marshall, which improved to 19-5 overall will play La Salle on Tuesday.

Game 2: #2 LaSalle 54, #3 Crespi 52

Aki Aquino made a game-winning layup with six seconds to play at LaSalle. Crespi (12-14), which trailed most of the game, pulled even with 34 seconds to play on a 15-jump shot Blake Tibbetts. La Salle improved to 15-12 overall. Aquino finished with a game-high 22 points and had six steals while teammate Joe Williams finished with 11 points and 12 rebounds. Williams outrebounded Crespi's James Spratt 12-7 and as a team, the Lancers outrebounded Crespi 35-29. Coach Steve Goldstein's gotta be happy with this one. La Sall will play Marshall on Tuesday in second round action.

Region IV

Game 1: #1 Santa Maria St. Joseph 67, #4 Carpinteria 50

The Knights exploited their height advantage with Mike Hoffman and Jason Williams to beat the visiting Warriors in a first-round game of the Division 4-AA playoffs. Hoffman scored a game-high 21 and Williams added 14. The Warriors trailed only by four, 26-22, at halftime, but were outscored 18-6 in the third quarter. Carpinteria shot just 2-for-10 shooting from the floor in the third. John Barbieri led Carpinteria with 15 points but scored only five in the second half. Point guard Tony Parra, had five assists and played really great defense on St. Joseph counterpart Tony Cova. Lincoln Nordby added 14 points for Carpinteria, which finishes at 13-9. Carpinteria scoring was by Barbieri 15, Terai 2, Nordby 14, Parra 1, Scott 10, Hildenbrand 2, and Redfield 6. St. Joseph scoring was by Cova 12, Hoover 2, Williams 14, Rezendez 2, Smith 4, Hoffman 21, Krause 6, and Merlo 6.

Game 2: #2 Duarte 79, #3 Oak Park 61

John Murphy scored 22 points for Oak Park, which concluded its season yesterday at 14-10 overall in a first round game at Duarte. Greg Jones added another 17 points (including three 3 pointers) for Oak Park, which never led in this game. Duarte had very even scoring, with Charles Pauley scoring 10, Willie Brown getting a game high 24, and Keith Holmes scoring 21. Others scoring for Duarte were Joshua Murphy with 2, Wesley Jones with 6, Dennis Weathersby with 8, Steve Green with 2, Calvin Byrd with 4 and Ray Rogers with 2. Keith Holmes had 3 three-pointers and Brown had one as Duarte improved to 16-9 overall on the season. Duarte will play St. Josephs on Tuesday.