Brea Pummels La Jolla, 91-39

Chelsea Trotter walked to the bench during a timeout 2 minutes 26 seconds into Brea Olinda’s game against La Jolla on Tuesday.

“I looked at the scoreboard,” Brea’s 6-foot-3 junior center said, “and I thought, ‘You’ve got to be kidding. How did they get this far?’ ”

It was more like an Orange League game for Trotter and Co., instead of the first round of the Southern California Division II girls’ basketball playoffs. Brea, the defending state champion, scored a 91-39 victory over La Jolla--the runner-up in the San Diego Section--and it could have been worse.

The Ladycats led, 11-0, when Trotter looked to the scoreboard, scored the first 13 points of the game, and took a 27-2 lead in the first quarter on 11-for-18 shooting.

Brea added 24 points in the second quarter for a 51-16 lead, and extended it to 72-28 after three quarters. The biggest lead was 54 points, 85-31, Brea’s deep end of the bench doing the damage. Tara Hefferly scored 11, more than all but one of La Jolla’s players, Morgan Romine (13 points).

Brea (29-3) will host to La Puente Bishop Amat, a 70-60 winner over Bakersfield North, on Thursday.

Brea shot 51.4% from the field (36 for 70). Trotter finished with 23 points, eight rebounds and five steals. Senior guard Lindsey Davidson scored 18, had five steals and six assists. Junior guard Jackie Lord scored 11 and had five assists. Three others, Kate Ides, Lissa Lawrence, and Jill Trader, scored eight apiece.

In its five first-round playoff games in the state tournament under Coach Jeff Sink, Brea’s average victory margin is 37.4 points.

“We’re playing as good as we can play,” Sink said. “We’re peaking at the right time. I’m pleased that we’re playing with focus and intensity because we weren’t doing that two weeks ago.

Brea’s defense wrapped a plastic bag over the Vikings, forcing 14 turnovers in the first quarter, 20 in the half, 33 in the game.

La Jolla’s leading scorer, senior forward Malaika Underwood (15.2 points), finished with five.

“We knew they were good,” La Jolla Coach Nancy Moyer said. “They were better than we expected.”