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Basketball Lakewood

CIF Basketball: Lakewood Girls Punch Ticket to First-Ever Championship

Mike GuardabascioComments Off on CIF Basketball: Lakewood Girls Punch Ticket to First-Ever Championship

The562’s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013.

The Lakewood girls’ basketball team is going to its first-ever CIF-SS championship next week after knocking off Santa Margarita on the road in the Division 2A semifinals, 60-54.

The Lancers were led as they have been all year long by Nyemah King (28 points) and Cristina Jones (25 points). 

The Lancers advance to next week’s championship game, where they’ll face the winner of Louisville and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, who play Saturday evening. Time, date, and location of the championship game will be revealed on Monday.

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Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
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