Lynwood Topples No. 1 Dominguez

Lynwood got past one defending state champion Friday night. Just in time to face another.

The Knights (10-3, 2-0 in league play), the seventh-ranked boys’ basketball team in the Southland, knocked off top-ranked Compton Dominguez, 58-48, in a San Gabriel Valley League game at Lynwood by holding the Dons to 29% shooting from the floor.

Davon Jefferson had 23 points and six rebounds to lead Lynwood, which plays No. 4 Los Angeles Fairfax today.

Fairfax won the Division I state championship a year ago, Dominguez (10-4, 1-1) won the Division II title.

“This helps our confidence,” said Jefferson, a 6-8 senior. “We have to be ready to play [today].”

Dominguez guard Bryan Harvey scored 13 points but made just five of 19 shots, one of 10 three-point shots.

Dan Arritt

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Girls’ Basketball

Top-ranked Long Beach Poly did its talking on the floor as the Jackrabbits soundly defeated No. 10 Long Beach Wilson, 57-36, in a Moore League game.

Wilson’s star players, Sheila Ho-Ching and Neka Mixon, had made comments that appeared in a local newspaper and ended up on Poly’s bulletin board.

“We’ve beaten Wilson for three years,” said Coach Carl Buggs of Poly (14-2, 4-0), “yet those two players gave us no credit for winning those games. Each time, they said, ‘We beat ourselves’ or ‘we gave up.’ ”

Mixon finished with 15 points and Ho-Ching had seven before fouling out early in the fourth quarter. The two had combined for eight points after three quarters. Wilson is now 14-4 and 3-1 in league.

Senior April Phillips had 15 points and 18 rebounds and freshman Jasmine Dixon had 20 points and 15 rebounds for Poly.

Martin Henderson

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Wrestling

Temecula Valley, the top-ranked team in Southern Section Division I, remained in the title hunt after the first day of the Five Counties Invitational tournament, but one of its top wrestlers suffered the biggest upset at Fountain Valley High.

Kipp Bowman, ranked No. 1 in the state at 140 pounds and seeded No. 1 in the tournament, lost to unseeded Robert Campbell of Vacaville, 9-3, in the third round.

The Golden Bears had 152-pounder Cory Beeson and heavyweight Jordan Blanchard advance to the quarterfinals and are fifth in the team race, 37 points behind leader Poway (112). Bakersfield and Las Vegas Cimarron are tied for second at 87.5.

-- Peter Yoon