PREP BASKETBALL STATE PLAYOFFS : DIVISION IV

Santa Clara 77, Laguna Beach 48--After a 140-mile trip to Ventura College, the Artists never got on track and lost to the defending state champions.

Laguna Beach (23-7) went 11 minutes 30 seconds from the end of the first quarter until the opening minutes of the third quarter without scoring a field goal and fell behind, 38-12.

Guard Shon Tarver scored Santa Clara’s first 12 points and then put on a show, scoring 39 points on a variety of drives, dunks and three-point shots.

Tarver, who has narrowed his college choices to Notre Dame, Nevada Las Vegas, UCLA, Syracuse and Georgia Tech, made 15 of 24 shots and was five of eight at the free-throw line. Tarver’s final basket was his most spectacular, a dunk off an alley-oop pass before he left the game with 4:19 remaining.

Santa Clara (26-0), which hasn’t lost a game since losing to Huntington Beach Edison in December of 1988, won its 32nd in a row.