Mater Dei Finishes Regular Season as County’s Top Team
Mater Dei High School received all six first-place votes and finished the regular season as the top-ranked boys’ team in the Orange County Sportswriters’ Assn. prep basketball poll.
It marks the seventh time in the past eight years that Mater Dei has won the county’s mythical championship. Saddleback finished as the top-ranked team in 1989.
The writers’ poll:
Pos. School (League) Record 1. Mater Dei (Angelus) 22-4 2. Irvine (South Coast) 22-3 3. Tustin (Sea View) 21-4 4. Capistrano Valley (South Coast) 21-5 5. Servite (Angelus) 18-6 6. Estancia (Pacific Coast) 21-4 7. Edison (Sunset) 19-6 8. Marina (Sunset) 15-10 9. Western (Orange) 20-3 10. Los Alamitos (Empire) 18-7
Others receiving votes: Huntington Beach (17-7).
Girls’ Basketball
Pos. School (League) Record 1. Brea-Olinda (Orange) 24-1 2. Estancia (Pacific Coast) 23-1 3. Tustin (Sea View) 23-3 4. Marina (Sunset) 21-4 5. Rancho Alamitos (Garden Grove) 24-0 6. La Habra (Freeway) 19-5 7. Woodbridge (Sea View) 20-5 8. Cypress (Empire) 19-6 9. El Toro (South Coast) 17-6 10. Costa Mesa (Pacific Coast) 17-8
Others receiving votes: Capistrano Valley (16-6), Esperanza (16-7), Fountain Valley (17-9), Huntington Beach (20-8), Valencia (15-8).
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