Boys’ basketball: Crespi vs. Notre Dame

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The rivalry between Encino Crespi and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame gets another opportunity in basketball, with a third meeting scheduled for Friday in a Division 4A semifinal game expected to be at Harvard-Westlake.

Crespi has beaten the Knights twice this season, and there’s no way Crespi can beat Notre Dame three times. If the Celts pull it off, Coach Russell White deserves a parade. I still don’t understand how Notre Dame lost the last time the two schools played.

But White deserves credit for getting the Celts to play at the top of their game during the playoffs. They are overachievers, and sometimes that’s how championships are won.

I think it’s going to be an all-Mission League final next week.

-- Eric Sondheimer