L.B. Wilson Scores Final 14 to Upset Lynwood

Long Beach Wilson, trailing by 14 with less than seven minutes remaining, scored the final 14 points to upset second-seeded Lynwood, 48-46, and win the Southern Section Division I-AA girls’ basketball title at the Long Beach Pyramid on Friday night.

Dawn McCullough, whose only three-point basket in seven attempts pulled the Bruins to within 46-42, made four free throws in the final two minutes, the last with 1:20 remaining to provide Wilson (29-4) a 47-46 lead.

Teammate Tarika Campbell stripped Laconia Hatcher of the ball as she drove for the basket with 6.7 seconds left. Campbell was fouled and converted a free throw. Hatcher led Lynwood with 17 points.

Andrea Adams missed a three-point shot at the buzzer for Lynwood (26-5).

McCullough scored 23 and had nine rebounds. Campbell scored 11, had seven rebounds and only one steal--the one that mattered.

Redondo 55, Brea Olinda 46--The Seahawks (27-5) did what no team was able to do in the 1990s and ended Brea Olinda’s Southern Section championship streak at 11 in the Division II-AA championship game.

Redondo got 14 points from Jackie Packard, 12 from Ofa Tulikihihifo and 10 from Stephanie Wong to win the first girls’ basketball title in school history.

Chelsea Trotter scored 14 for Brea (25-6), which defeated Redondo in the third game of the season, 71-41, in the semifinal of the Brea tournament.

Brea wiped out an 11-point deficit with nine minutes remaining and pulled to within one point, 40-39, with 4:51 to go, but Redondo consistently drove the lane and scored in transition against the Ladycats. Holding a 46-42 lead with less than two minutes remaining, Redondo scored nine of the next 11 points.

Playa del Rey St. Bernard 82, Santa Ana Calvary Chapel 52--The top-seeded Vikings exacted vengeance with a vengeance in winning their sixth section title and third in four years in the Division IV-A championship.

The game was a rematch of last year’s semifinal, won by Calvary Chapel, 62-61, in which the Eagles led by two points and St. Bernard’s Shannon Howell missed two of three free throws with no time on the clock.

This time Howell scored 18, had eight assists and nine steals to lead the Vikings. She scored 16 in the first quarter, and had six steals, as St. Bernard jumped to a 34-9 lead. The Vikings (22-5) forced 21 turnovers in the first half.

Richeal Werdel scored 18 for Calvary Chapel (19-8).

Long Beach St. Anthony 65, Pacific Hills 34--The third-seeded Saints (23-8) continued their domination in the division by taking a 26-7 first-quarter lead on the Bruins (19-8) en route to their first section title in the Division V-AA championship.

One of St. Anthony’s two seniors, Shawn Matthews scored 14 and had seven rebounds, complementing juniors Andrea Opfer, who had 13 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists and Lisa Luyben, who had 17 points and five assists.