Kearny’s 2nd Loss Could Be a Forfeit

Should Kearny and University City high schools be forced to forfeit their Friday night basketball game, it would be only the second “loss” for the second-ranked Komets, who have won 23.

The first was a 54-49 overtime loss to Poway in December.

Kearny was leading University City, 61-43, with 6:09 left Friday when a fight broke out, fans poured onto the court, and the game was subsequently halted.

Pending an investigation, Section Commissioner Kendall Webb said both teams could wind up with forfeits.

Tough business: No punches were thrown in this one, but that didn’t stop referee Ken Perez from having to treat a nasty gash over an eye ein the Torrey Pines-Rancho Buena Vista game on Wednesday.

According to Mike Brown, a Torrey Pines assistant, Perez apparently caught an elbow when he stepped between two players after a foul call.

The game was delayed about five minutes, but Perez returned.

Take that: Santana pulled off one of the biggest upsets in boys’ basketball this season, stunning Valhalla, 76-71, in overtime on Tuesday.

Valhalla had never lost a Grossmont 2-A League game, but Santana halted that streak at 27 by making 57% of its field goals and 70% of its free throws, including six of six in overtime.

Santana, which lost to Valhalla by 32 three weeks ago, won its third in a row on Friday and is 6-14, 3-4 after beginning the year with seven losses. Valhalla did not play Friday and is 18-7, 5-1.

In another upset of note, Marian won for only the third time this season, and its 39-38 victory over Christian on Wednesday was special for two additional reasons.

Christian was 17-4 at the time, and Marian’s Jaime Coronado won it with a three-point basket at the buzzer--and Christian had the ball and the lead with seven seconds left.

Sensational shooters: Valhalla sophomore Beau Sager is slowly closing in on a possible Section record for free-throw shooting percentage in a season. Sager has made 83 of 92 attempts for a .902 percentage.

Jeff Work of Fallbrook set the Section record in 1986 at .929, but that was by making 52 of 56.

San Dieguito’s Paul Chan holds the mark at .876 (92 of 105, in 1987) for players with more than 100 attempts.

In girls’ basketball, county scoring leader Heather Holm of El Cajon Valley has made 174 of 235 free throws for a .740 percentage. Holm is currently fourth on the single-season list for free throws made, seven behind Marcey Wolf’s total for Chula Vista in 1989.

Christina Adams set the Section record of 254 during her junior year at Grossmont in 1990, and Susie O’Brien made 253 in 1989 for San Marcos.

With 46 three-point field goals, Holm is currently third on that list behind Adams (100 in 1990) and Alison Peckham of Holtville (69 in 1990).

The name of the game: Proving why it is the No. 1-ranked boys’ basketball team in the county, Torrey Pines made 22 of 30 field goal attempts, including two of four three-point attempts, in a 55-34 victory over Orange Glen on Friday.

Scorekeeper’s delight: Earlier this year, La Jolla Country Day set a Section record for points in a boys’ basketball game by routing Mtn. Empire, 143-60. It was a different story, however, when the two 1-A schools met Feb. 7.

The Torres won again, but this time it was 37-31.

Encore: After setting a school basketball record with 15 assists on Wednesday, Chula Vista’s Lamar Bailey had 19 on Friday.

There’s a lesson here: The San Dieguito girls’ soccer team has outscored 19 opponents this year, 120-7. The Mustangs are 18-0-1, and one of two goalies, Shane Parmely, recorded her 10th shutout on Thursday.

In 1990, Bonita Vista set Section records for most goals (163) and fewest goals allowed (seven), but the Barons lost to Torrey Pines in the 3-A Championship, 1-0.

Brave returns: San Diego State’s leading scorer the past two years, Brian Craft-Negrete, is coaching the boys’ soccer team for his alma mater, the El Cajon Valley Braves, this winter.

On Friday, Craft-Negrete was one of two players drafted by the Sockers.