Prep Sports Roundup: Damien Knocks Off Crespi Using Three-pointers

Mike LeDuc has a agelong history of letting his players occurrence distant from three-point range. In nan 1980s, Tracy Murray sewage to play 2 years pinch a three-point statement astatine Glendora nether LeDuc and became nan state’s all-time scoring leader pinch 3,053 points and a 44.3 scoring average.

In nan Southern California Division I location playoffs, LeDuc has watched his Damien players make threes successful bunches. First nan Spartans eliminated Inglewood pinch 13 threes. On Thursday night, they defeated Crespi 59-55 acknowledgment to 11 three-pointers. Junior Zaire Rasshan vanished six of 11 from three-point scope and had 18 points.

“We person changeable a batch of threes this year,” LeDuc said.

Rasshan has been fixed nan Murray-like greenish light.

“He has free scope arsenic agelong arsenic it’s a changeable he tin make,” LeDuc said.

Damien (29-7) advances to play Crean Lutheran, a 71-66 victor complete second-seeded Corona Centennial, successful Saturday’s location semifinal.

For Crespi (21-14), it was a disappointing ending but nan early looks bright. All 5 starters are underclassmen. Jasiah Williams scored 13 points and Isaiah Barnes and Rodney Mukendi each had 10 points.

Palisades 62, Eastvale Roosevelt 56: The City Section Open Division champs precocious to nan Division II location semifinal, knocking disconnected nan top-seeded defending authorities champion Mustangs connected nan road. OJ Popoola scored 24 points, Phillip Reed had 16, Jack Levey 12 and EJ Popoola 10. Palisades will play astatine Torrey Pines connected Saturday.

Shalhevet 50, Gahr 37: Sam Jacobson scored 22 points successful nan Division III win.

Birmingham 77, Trabuco Hills 68: The Patriots move to nan Division III semifinals. Tekeio Phillips, X’zavion McKay and Wizdom Burnes each scored 17 points.

Mater Dei 64, JSerra 60: After losing six consecutive games to JSerra, nan Monarchs yet won to beforehand to nan Division 1 semifinals against St. John Bosco.

St. John Bosco 78, Chula Vista Victory Christian 51: Tariq Escandari scored 17 points and Christian Collins had 15 for nan Braves.

Girls basketball

Birmingham 77, Cathedral Catholic 69: The Patriots will play Saugus successful nan Division II semifinals. Kayla Tanijiri scored 28 points.

Francis Parker 60, Oak Park 46: The Eagles fell successful a Division I game. Maya Urteaga scored 13 points.

Baseball

Birmingham 10, Sylmar 0: Carlos Acuna threw a one-hitter pinch six strikeouts and Efrain Cervantes had 3 hits for nan Patriots.

Chaminade 8, Foothill Tech 1: Drew Kostich threw 5 scoreless innings and Austin Maiden went 3 for three.

South Hills 4, La Mirada 3: Darren Murphy picked up his 500th coaching victory.

Softball

Sierra Canyon 2, Burroughs 0: Jael Long and Kaylee Ton mixed for nan shutout.

Viewpoint 4, Louisville 3: Emjay Peck struck retired 15 and contributed 3 hits for Viewpoint.

Oaks Christian 11, Granada Hills 0: The Lions (8-0) stayed unbeaten down Trystyn Crutcher, who had 4 hits, including 2 triples. Freshman Julia Horton struck retired 12.

JSerra 8, Westlake 4: Annabel Raftery and Zena Edwards each had location runs for JSerra. Presley Watters deed a two-run location tally for Westlake.

Norco 9, Camp Verde 0: Peyton May had 9 strikeouts successful 4 innings and Savannah Gonzalez deed a three-run location tally for unbeaten Norco.

Boys soccer

Mater Dei 2, El Camino Real 1: The Monarchs beforehand to nan Division I location championship.

Girls soccer

Santa Margarita 3, Cleveland 0: The City Section champion Cavaliers were beaten successful nan location semifinals. Santa Margarita will look Mater Dei successful nan location last connected Saturday astatine 3 p.m. astatine Tesoro. Mater Dei defeated Oaks Christian 2-0.