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Boys’ basketball: JW North hangs on to win 2AA title

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Riverside North survived a furious fourth-quarter comeback by Villa Park to win the Southern Section Division 2AA title with a 59-58 victory at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Villa Park trailed by 14 points with 6:31 left but pulled to within one point on a basket by Lamont Tyler with 40 seconds left. The Spartans had the ball out of bounds with a chance to take tie or take the lead, but after the ball was passed in, Deshon Taylor stole it from Villa Park’s Kevin Olsen with three seconds remaining and dribbled out the clock.

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Dorian Butler led the way with 16 points and Taylor added 10. The victory was especially meaningful for Butler and Adrian Hughes because their fathers also won secton titles at North. Butler’s dad Kelvin was a member of the Huskies’ 3A title-winning team in 1984 and Hughes’ dad Ronald played on the 1993 squad that beat Dominguez for North’s last 2AA title.

-- Steve Galluzzo

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