City Section

CITY SECTION PLAYOFFS

Friday, Feb. 27

Semifinals

CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION

Fairfax 73, Cleveland 64
Jamal Boykin, a 6-7 junior, scored 29 points, including a career-best four three-pointers, and Josh Shipp added 25 points as the top-seeded Lions (23-4) advance to the City Champonship game with the victory at Loyola Marymount.

Fairfax opened leads of 11 points in the first half and 15 point in the second half, taking advantage of Boykin’s dominating play.

“The way he played was the difference,” Cleveland Coach Andre Chevalier said. “He was on fire.”

Nick Young scored 28 points for Cleveland (25-4), which got as close as seven points in the fourth quarter. But that’s when UCLA-bound Shipp took over, scoring 11 points in the fourth quarter.

Fairfax has been the City runner-up four times since 1995 and is looking for its first title since 1987.
--Eric Sondheimer

Taft 65, Dorsey 63
Jordan Farmar signed to play at UCLA next season, but he isn’t ready to become a Bruin just yet.

The 6-foot-2 senior guard had 29 points and seven assists to lead Woodland Hills Taft to a victory over Los Angeles Dorsey Friday night at West L.A. College. His two free throws with 13 seconds left were the deciding points.

Jabari Samuel’s rebound and layup gave third-seeded Taft (26-2) a 62-60 lead with 37 seconds left. Kyle Gibson missed a jumper on Dorsey’s ensuing possession and Farmar was fouled intentionally.

“This was the biggest game of our lives, so we all had to step it up,” said Farmar, who made all six of his free throws. “With this team, you never know who the hero is going to be. Tonight it was Jabari. His basket was huge.”

Dawayne Cotton made a desperation three-pointer and was fouled by Taft’s Matt Cook with four seconds left to pull the second-seeded Dons (24-3) to within one point, but his free throw hit the front of the rim and Pierce Brooks tapped the rebound to Farmar, who ran out the clock.

Chuma Awaji had 23 points, including five three-pointers, while Jonathan Heard and Gibson each added 12 for Dorsey, which opened the second half with an 11-0 run and led 50-42 at the start of the fourth quarter.

Farmar scored 11 of Taft’s 15 points in the first quarter and gave the Toreadors their first lead, 17-16, with a layup to open the second quarter. He sat out the final 2:12 of the half after drawing his third foul. Alex Drob’s layup with three seconds left gave Taft a 33-31 halftime lead.
--Steve Galluzzo

INVITATIONAL DIVISION

King-Drew 82, Locke 70
Shooting guard Demetrius Turner had 31 points off the bench, Marcus Rodgers had 21 points, nine rebounds and four blocks and senior center Daniel Stewart had nine points, 10 rebounds and eight blocks for host King-Drew (16-8), which will play L.A. Jordan March 6 at the Sports Arena. Terrance Hunt had 33 points and Chris Burleson had 20 points for Locke (6-9).

L.A. Jordan 60, Garfield 50
Chris Johnson had 19 points and eight rebounds to lead visiting L.A. Jordan (16-11). DeAnthony Brooks added 15 points and 20 rebounds for Jordan, which held Garfield’s leading-scorer Steve Monreal to just four points, 21 short of his season average. Garfield finished 12-4.

Wednesday, Feb. 25

Quarterfinals

CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION

Cleveland 86, Fremont 79
Senior forward Nick Young had 32 points and 17 rebounds and sophomore guard Corey Duncan scored a career-high 22 to lead the Cavaliers at Fremont High.

Young scored five points to help Cleveland get out to a 27-12 lead after the first quarter, and his jump shot at the end of the third helped the fifth-seeded Cavaliers take a 61-47 lead into the fourth.

Young went to the bench with his fourth foul early in the final quarter and when he returned with 3:51 remaining, the fourth-seeded Pathfinders had cut the lead to 67-58. Young then fouled out 21 seconds later, but Fremont could only get within six points with 1:45 remaining before Duncan drilled a three-pointer 11 seconds later, his second since Young fouled out.

Despite being just a sophomore, Duncan said he wasn’t worried about picking up the scoring slack after Young had fouled out.

``I have confidence in the way I shoot my jumper,’’ he said.

Danny Williams and Thomas Herring scored 24 points each for the Pathfinders, but did not help their team’s chances at the line, making just eight of 21 free throws combined.
--Dan Arritt

Dorsey 69, Carson 60
Chuma Awaji had 26 points, eight rebounds and five assists and DaWayne Cotton added 12 rebounds and six assists to lead host Dorsey (24-2), which will play at West L.A. College in the semifinal round. Carson finishes 18-9.

Fairfax 89, South Gate 65
Josh Shipp scored 29 points and Jamal Boykin added 26 for host No. 2-ranked, No. 1-seeded Fairfax (22-4), which led, 45-34, at halftime. Jose Sanchez had 35 points and six rebounds and Lorenzo Mata added 19 points and 12 rebounds for eight-seeded South Gate (18-8).

Taft 69, Crenshaw 66
Calvin Haynes, a sophomore guard playing in only his sixth game of the season after being academically ineligible, scored a career-high 27 points for the Toreadors (25-2), who advanced to the championship semifinals for the second consecutive year.

Jordan Farmar scored 23 points for Taft and made one of two free throws with nine seconds left to give the Toreadors a three-point margin.

Crenshaw (18-7) had a chance to tie the game, but a three-point attempt by Brandon Sampay was missed with one second left. Hamil Madyun led Crenshaw with 21 points.

Taft held a 10-point lead with four minutes left, but five turnovers and two missed free throws on one-and-one situations let the Cougars back into the game.
-- Eric Sondheimer

INVITATIONAL DIVISION

Garfield 81, Jefferson 80
Ray Ramirez had four points, including the game-winning shot with four seconds remaining, to lift host Garfield (12-3), which plays L.A. Jordan Friday. Emilio Chavez had 27 points, including 16 in the fourth quarter, Henry Campos scored 23 points and Steve Monreal added 22 points for Garfield. Travis Lee had 22 points and Austin Usher had 20 points for Jefferson (7-16).

King-Drew 82, Gardena 60
Marcus Rogers had 26 points and nine rebounds, Marvin Mills tallied 25 points, six rebounds and three steals and Jamaal Thomas had 25 points, six rebounds and four steals to lead King-Drew. Daniel Stewart added four points, 10 rebounds and five blocks for host King-Drew (15-8), which hosts Locke on Friday. Gardena is 8-18.

L.A. Jordan 53, L.A. CES 50
Johnny Francis had seven points, including the game-winning three-point shot with 16 seconds left, and Chris Johnson and DeAnthony Brooks each scored 14 points to lead host L.A. Jordan (15-11), which plays Garfield on Friday. Ben Braziel had 22 points for L.A. CES (15-12).

Locke 62, Franklin 49
Terrence Hunt scored 13 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead 13th-seeded Locke (6-8), which trailed, 29-28, at halftime. Joshua Carillo scored 18 points for 12th-seeded Franklin (17-12).