Beverly Hills, Culver City won’t settle for tie this time

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And the tie goes to ... somebody else.

Beverly Hills (4-4-1, 3-1) and unbeaten Culver City (9-0, 4-0) will play for the Ocean League championship tonight on the Normans’ home field, and this time, the teams won’t have to worry about any tie game that might muddle the regular season’s final mix.

In part because of the teams’ past two meetings -- Beverly Hills and Culver City tied, 13-13, in 2005 and 56-56 in 2006 -- the Ocean League voted to use a California tiebreaker this season to settle league games that are deadlocked at the end of regulation. Beverly Hills won the league title in 2005 and Culver City was the champion last season.

Last year’s meeting has to rank among the highest-scoring ties in state history, although, according to our crack stats guru, Eric Maddy, there are no records for such a category.

And Culver City players don’t think a similar result is in the cards tonight, anyway.

‘That’s not happening,’ senior quarterback Darius Banks said, shaking his head.

Just in case anyone was wondering, the Southern Section record for combined scoring by two teams in a game that didn’t end in a tie was 144 points in 1994, when Bloomington beat Artesia, 82-62, in a quarterfinal game of the Southern Section Division VIII playoffs.

-- Lauren Peterson

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