Roundup : Crenshaw, Morningside Win Division I Championships

Terry Cannon scored 21 points Saturday night to lead Crenshaw High School of Los Angeles to a 70-63 victory over Skyline of Oakland and the State Division I boys’ basketball championship in the Oakland Coliseum Arena.

Rahim Harris paced Skyline with 29 points and Kevin Washington added 22.

It was Crenshaw’s fourth state title since the tournament was revived in 1982.

Crenshaw finished the season 25-3. Skyline dropped to 25-6.

In the Division II boys’ championship game:

Menlo Atherton 89, Glendora 83--Atherton withstood a record-setting 64 points by Glendora’s Tracy Murray to win.

Murray, the state’s all-time leading scorer with 3,053 points and California’s leading scorer this year with a 43.6 average, shattered the previous Division II record of 35 points set by Steve Kenilvort of Drake in 1982. Craig McMillan of Cloverdale, a Division III school, scored 37 points in the state championship game in 1983, and Cheryl Miller of Riverside Poly scored 41 in the Division I girls game in 1982.

Kendrick Reed had an outstanding game, leading Menlo-Atherton (32-4) with 36 points.

The Bears were simply too quick for Glendora (31-3), despite Murray’s scoring heroics.

In the Division I girls’ championship game:

Morningside 60, Oakland Fremont 50--Lisa Leslie, a 6-foot-5 junior center, scored 21 points, had 14 rebounds and blocked 4 shots as Morningside avenged a one-point loss to Fremont in last year’s state title game.

Morningside (32-1), ranked No. 1 in the state, won its final 23 games.