Armaggedon 2: Poly vs. Millikan -- can anything divert it?

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An asteroid -- the size of Texas -- blazes through space and will slam into Earth in 18 days. It will end life as we know it. Unless super-dudes like Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck can stop it. Yeah, we’re talking Hollywood here and that’s the central crisis in action-flick ‘Armageddon.’

But, in the Southland, we have our own Armageddon with two asteroids zooming toward each other -- Long Beach Poly and Millikan.

Both teams won Saturday night in the quarterfinals of the Southern Section Division I-AA girls’ basketball playoffs. So that means both teams are also just one win away from a colossal crack-up -- with each other. Already the ‘Rabbits (24-2) and the Rams (26-3) have whipped each other once this season, and these are also the two top-ranked squads by The Times.

‘We have one more game to take care of,’ said Millikan Coach Lorene Morgan. That’s right, the Rams must beat Ventura in the semifinals and Poly must take out Lynwood. But I’m not sure anything can divert this collision -- Ventura and Lynwood better call in Willis and Affleck for help.

-- Anthony Stitt

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