Redondo Puts Brakes on Ventura

Redondo Union High found a way to do something few before it could: stop the state’s most prolific outside-shooting girls’ basketball team.

The Sea Hawks used a match-up zone defense to tame a Ventura team that had made a state-record 275 three-point shots, taking a 50-34 victory Saturday night in a Division II Southern California Regional semifinal game at Ventura High.

Jenni Dooley, who had made 106 three-pointers and was averaging 19.5 points for top-seeded Ventura, missed all 13 of her shots and finished with one point. Katy O’Brien, who scored 61 points in her previous two games, had nine points.

“I can’t believe we did that, to tell you the truth,” said Coach Marcello Enriquez of fourth-seeded Redondo (25-7), which advances to the 2 p.m. regional final on Saturday at Long Beach Arena against second-seeded Fullerton Troy (29-3), a 57-54 winner over Bakersfield Stockdale.

Ofa Tulikihihifo had 13 points and seven rebounds and Krista Areyan added 10 points and seven rebounds for Redondo, the Southern Section Division II-A champion. Freshman Caitlin O’Neill scored 13 points for Ventura (29-3), which made only 12 of 50 shots (six of 32 from three-point range) and saw its 18-game winning streak end.

Dave Desmond

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Lynwood 58, Oceanside El Camino 29--Sophomore’s Sade Wiley-Gatewood and Lorie Rayford led top-seeded Lynwood (31-0) to an easy victory in a Division I regional semifinal at home.

Wiley-Gatewood, a guard, scored a game-high 15 points, including six in the final quarter. Rayford, a forward, finished with 14 points, including eight off offensive rebounds.

The Knights used a 22-6 run to build a 30-12 lead early in the third quarter.

Lynwood will play Harbor City Narbonne in a regional final at 6 p.m. Saturday at Long Beach Arena.

Junior guard Jessica Eggleston scored a team-high 12 points for El Camino (24-10).

Steve Kresal

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Torrance Bishop Montgomery 68, Pasadena Muir 50--The Knights outscored Muir, 11-0, in the first quarter and did not trail in the Division III regional semifinal at Bishop Montgomery.

Noelle Quinn had 25 points and 12 rebounds and Nykia Peace added 23 points for Bishop Montgomery (26-5), which will play Lakewood Artesia in a regional final at 10 a.m. Saturday at Long Beach Arena.

Tye’sha Fluker had 19 points for Muir (25-6).

Peter Yoon

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Lakewood Artesia 68, San Diego University 54--Senior guard Brittney Thomas had a career-high 32 points to lead the Pioneers in a Division III regional semifinal.

Artesia was leading, 38-36, with 2:54 left in the third quarter before it pulled away. Thomas began the charge with one of her four three-pointers as the Pioneers closed the quarter on a 12-0 run.

Artesia (26-5) held University City without a field goal for a five-minute span from late in the third quarter to early in the fourth. Junior forward Cacie Pope added 13 points, seven rebounds and three blocked shots, and junior guard Brittany Imaku had 10 points and seven rebounds.

Loren Kopff

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L.A. Pilgrim 60, San Luis Obispo Mission Prep 49--Brittany James had 16 points for Pilgrim (28-3), which will face La Jolla Country Day, a 76-52 winner over Reedley Immanuel, in the Division V regional final at 1 p.m. Saturday at Long Beach City College.