Girls basketball: She missed the game, but she got the points
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I can’t get enough of the Redondo-San Clemente semifinal in Southern Section Division I-A on Tuesday, mostly because I can’t get enough of myself being right. I was on the record that this was the championship game within the division, and the dramatics didn’t exactly discount that theory.
Top-seeded Redondo won, 50-47, over the defending champion with the 16-game winning streak. I missed it because I was at that mega-rivalry, Long Beach Poly-Lynwood in Division I-AA. Here is the Daily Breeze account of Redondo’s victory, and here is The Register’s account. I like the Register’s story angle, too, about how the Sea Hawks were called upon to remember what they felt like when they lost to San Clemente in last year’s playoffs.
I can’t get enough of the Redondo-San Clemente semifinal in Southern Section Division I-A on Tuesday, mostly because I can’t get enough of myself being right. I was on the record that this was the championship game within the division, and the dramatics didn’t exactly discount that theory.
Top-seeded Redondo won, 50-47, over the defending champion with the 16-game winning streak. I missed it because I was at that mega-rivalry, Long Beach Poly-Lynwood in Division I-AA. Here is the Daily Breeze account of Redondo’s victory, and here is The Register’s account. I like the Register’s story angle, too, about how the Sea Hawks were called upon to remember what they felt like when they lost to San Clemente in last year’s playoffs.
One irony: Maleta Daughtery, who scored five of her 10 points in the final minute by nailing a three-point shot that gave Redondo a one-point lead and two free-throws that provided the final margin, wasn’t with Redondo last season. She played at Artesia as a freshman, then moved to Texas for two seasons before coming back for her senior season.
But I’m guessing her teammates must have done a good job of conveying the feeling.
Now Redondo, which has lost a couple of one-point games in the semifinals since its last title, will play Bay League rival Mira Costa in the championship this weekend at the Long Beach State Pyramid. Each beat the other during league play in the other team’s gym.
Mira Costa, which lost to San Clemente in last year’s final, defeated Muir on Tuesday, 49-44. Here is The Breeze account, and here is the version from the Pasadena Star News.
-- Martin Henderson