Boys' basketball: Reinhardt sparks Mater Dei win
Katin Reinhardt made the second of his four three-pointers to give Mater Dei its first lead, 27-26, with 1:10 left in the first half and the Monarchs never looked back, cruising to a shockingly easy 72-55 upset over top-seeded Long Beach Poly in the semifinals of the Division I regional playoffs at Long Beach City College.
Reinhardt finished with 24 points and Xavier Johnson added 15 for fourth-seeded Mater Dei (30-3), which will take on Corona Centennial in the regional championship game next Saturday at USC's Galen Center. The winner advances to the state final the following Saturday in Sacramento.
"Our coaches told us after the first quarter that we'll be fine, we'll get back in it and that settled us down," Reinhardt said. "Everyone contributed. Everyone wanted it. No one wants to go home. We missed out on [CIF] so now we have to go get the state title."
Johnson fouled out on an over-the-back call with Mater Dei ahead 58-46 with 5:20 remaining in the fourth quarter and the score was the same when teammate Eli Stalzer fouled out with 3:11 left.
"He told me when he [fouled out] 'Get this win for me,'" Reinhardt said. "We got each other's back. He's always come up huge for us so I didn't want to let him down."
Alex Carmon led the Jackrabbits (31-2) with 15 points, Ryan Anderson had 13 and Roschon Prince added 11 before fouling out with 1:12 remaining.
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The Mater dei girls basketball team was beat by the Narbonne girls team for the performance goes for sure. Mater dei recruits tall heavy bunch of hackers. The refs failed to make it a fair game. MD girls were on the Narbonne girls all night. MD fans are rude and act on their on drugs. I hope brea linda beats the MD girls. These MD sorry fans need a reality check to get off their stupidity.
Posted by: phenoms | March 12, 2011 at 10:22 PM
How do you win high school basketball games? It's not so hard...
First, you have your guys practice making 3 pointers for an hour every day. Then, you have your guys practice making free throws for an hour every day (takes an awful lot of backboards and nets, I'm telling you.) Then you work on fundamentals and teamwork for an hour.
When game time comes around you play fast, full court man-to-man defense, foul your opponents' top two or three players extremely hard every time they take a normal shot (hard enough that the ball has no chance of going in, and if you injure them...ehh, who cares?) Don't worry about your players fouling out, since you have back-ups for each one and you rotate them in...they are all clones and with eight minute quarters your starters should last nearly the whole game anyway.
Next Saturday night the southland will be treated to a display of two teams who have perfected this form of basketball when the Mater Dei Finger Mashers take on the Centennial Eye-Pokers. Enjoy!
Posted by: Nice To See A Good Game | March 12, 2011 at 09:32 PM