Basketball: Saturday's regional final scores and state championship schedule

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Boys Division I: Westchester 53, King 39
Boys Division II: Eisenhower 68, Loyola 62
Boys Division III: Ocean View 79, Harvard-Westlake 63
Boys Division IV: Bishop Montgomery 85, Price 82 (2OT)
Boys Division V: Windward 52, Pacific Hills 40

Girls Division I: Long Beach Poly 67, Colony 54
Girls Division II: Brea Olinda 44, Mater Dei 38
Girls Division III: Inglewood 74, Marlborough 57
Girls Division IV: Chula Vista Mater Dei 54, La Jolla Bishop’s 51
Girls Division V: Bell-Jeff 61, View Park 49

Basketball: Thursdays Southern California Regional scores and Saturday schedule

BOYS
Regional semifinals, Thursday
DIVISION I
King 58, Taft 48
Westchester 55, Fairfax 54

DIVISION II
Loyola 57, Thousand Oaks 52
Eisenhower 72, Leuzinger 71

DIVISION III
Harvard-Westlake 97, Gahr 77
Ocean View 66, Anaheim Canyon 57

Boys' basketball: Northern California Regional scores and updated pairings

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL
BOYS
DIVISION I
Regional quarterfinals, Tuesday
Oakland McClymonds 65, Grove Franklin 53
Newark Memorial 52, San Jose Bellarmine 51
Folsom 88, Oakland Skyline 74
Danville Monte Vista 61, San Francisco Lowell 33

Regional semifinals, Thursday, 7 p.m. unless noted
Newark Memorial vs. #1 Oakland McClymonds (27-1) at Cal State East Bay (Hayward)
#3 Folsom (31-1) vs. #2 Danville Monte Vista (27-3) at St. Mary's College (Moraga), 8 p.m.

Boys' basketball: Southern California Regional scores and updated pairings

BOYS
DIVISION I
Regional quarterfinals, Tuesday
King 62, Tesoro 53
Taft 54, Dominguez 52
Fairfax 79, Mater Dei 64
Westchester 65, Oceanside El Camino 52

Regional semifinals, Thursday, 7 p.m.
#4 Taft (27-4) at #1 King (29-2)
#6 Fairfax (27-4) vs. #2 Westchester (32-2) at Los Angeles Southwest College

Basketball: Monday Southern California Regional scores

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

BOYS

DIVISION I

First round

King 72, Cleveland 54

Tesoro 60, San Diego Torrey Pines 56

Dominguez 64, Santa Monica 51

Taft 68, Ventura 55

Mater Dei 88, Chino Hills 55

Fairfax 70, Fresno Edison 49

Oceanside El Camino 63, Etiwanda 60

Westchester 85, Fresno Central 51

DIVISION II

First round

Reseda 75, Bakersfield Liberty 57

Los Angeles University 83, Oceanside 74 (OT)

Boys' basketball: Mater Dei romps, 88-55

With the possibility of his team playing four games in six days, Mater Dei Coach Gary McKnight substituted liberally as the No. 3-seeded Monarchs (31-1) cruised to an 88-55 victory over Chino Hills in a first-round game of the Division I Southern California Regional playoffs at Mater Dei.

Tyler Lamb and Travis Wear scored 19 points apiece, Gary Franklin Jr. had 18 and David Wear 16. Chino Hills (25-8) scored the game’s first basket on a three-pointer by Michael Rodriguez.

Mater Dei then went on a 20-0 run. Mater Dei will be the home team in a doubleheader Tuesday night, with its girls’ team playing at 6 p.m. and the boys’ team at 7:30.

McKnight changed his starting lineup, removing Connor Hughes and replacing him with another guard, Michael Pierce. It was a response to the Monarchs' 71-56 loss to Riverside King on Saturday and an attempt to change things up.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Boys' basketball: Windward holds off La Verne Lutheran

Senior center Anthony Stover scored 19 points and senior guard Darius Morris had 16 to lead Windward to a 72-62 victory over La Verne Lutheran tonight in the Division V-A championship at Ontario Colony High.

Sophomore guard Carl Cooper had 16 points and sophomore guard Kevin Payne and junior forward Jordan Salley 13 each for Lutheran. Windward built a nine-point halftime lead and stretched it to 17 points before the Trojans staged a late rally.

--Ben Bolch

Boys' and girls' basketball: Thursday Southern Section championship scores

SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS' BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thursday at Ontario Colony HS

DIVISION IV-A: Price 79, Chaminade 69 (OT)

DIVISION V-AA: Pacific Hills 59, Morningside 47

DIVISION VI-AA: Bermuda Dunes Desert Christian 54, Tarbut V'Torah 49

SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS' BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thursday at Santa Ana Mater Dei HS

DIVISION III-A: Foothill 50, Inglewood 46

DIVISION IV-AA: Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 45, Orange Lutheran 36

DIVISION VI-A: Cuyama Valley 38, Packinghouse Christian 33

-- Eric Maddy

Boys' basketball: Price holds on for victory

After surrendering a 12-point, fourth-quarter lead, Price composed itself in overtime for a 79-69 victory over Chaminade tonight in the Division IV-A championship at Colony High.

The second-seeded Knights scored the first eight points of the extra period. Chaminade guard Jamal McClerkin did not score in overtime after scoring 33 points in regulation.

--Ben Bolch

Boys' basketball: Desert Christian pulls out amazing comeback victory

Trailing by 20 points midway through the fourth quarter, Desert Christian put together one of the most improbable comebacks in Southern Section championship history, pulling out a 54-49 victory over Tarbut V'Torah tonight at Ontario Colony High in Division VI-AA.

Top-seeded Desert Christian scored 33 points in the fourth quarter after scoring 21 in the first three combined. The Conquerors had trailed, 47-27, midway through the fourth before beginning their comeback. The rally seemed especially improbable considering second-seeded Tarbut V'Torah had put together a 20-0 run of its own to end the third quarter and start the fourth.

It was another heart-breaking ending for Tarbut V'Torah, the tiny Irvine school whose administrators forfeited a playoff game in 2000 when they refused to let the team travel in the wake of heavy rain. This was the Lions' first appearance in a championship game.

--Ben Bolch