Dominguez Pushes Past Redondo

Tayshaun Prince scored 22 points and Compton Dominguez used a high-pressure defense to win its fourth consecutive Southern Section Division II-A championship with an 80-69 decision over Redondo Union Saturday at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim.

Dominguez turned a 33-29 halftime deficit into a 55-43 lead at the end of the third quarter with a suffocating defensive scheme that resulted in steals, Redondo turnovers and hurried shots by the Sea Hawks in the first three minutes after the break.

Prince sparked an 11-0 run to start the second half by scoring off an offensive rebound and capping it with a four-point play, after being fouled while hitting a three-pointer.

In Division I-AA boys’ basketball:

Lakewood Artesia 90, Long Beach Poly 74--Freshman forward Jack Martinez scored 27 points and had 16 rebounds as the top-seeded Pioneers (30-1) defeated the defending champion Jackrabbits for the third time this season.

Artesia, which had defeated Long Beach Poly by two points last month, turned a 45-40 halftime lead into a relatively easy victory behind Martinez and junior center Jason Kapono, who scored 18 points.

Senior center Ricky Anderson scored 24 points for Poly (25-7).

In Division I-A boys’ basketball:

Glendora 56, San Bernardino Pacific 50--Casey Jacobsen scored 37 points to spark the Tartans (29-1).

Glendora won its third title of the ‘90s, its first since 1992. The Tartans were making their fifth appearance in a championship game, their first since losing to Mater Dei in the 1996 final when several of the juniors on this year’s team were freshmen.

Jacobsen, a junior guard, made 16 of 21 free throws.

In Division III-A boys’ basketball:

West Hills Chaminade 80, Torrance Bishop Montgomery 66--Scott Long, a 6-4 forward, scored a season-high 35 points to lead Chaminade (27-1).

In Division IV-A boys’ basketball:

Los Angeles Verbum Dei 56, Gardena Serra 48--Marlon Parmer scored 32 points as the Eagles (19-5) won the championship in the first year under former Verbum Dei and UCLA star David Greenwood.

In Division I-AA girls’ basketball:

Palos Verdes Peninsula 55, Long Beach Wilson 40--Natalie Kelly had 22 points for the second-seeded Panthers (28-3), who were making their fifth appearance in a final in seven seasons.

Tiffany Harz added eight points for Peninsula, who won its 24th consecutive game.

In Division III-A girls’ basketball:

Mission Hills Alemany 62, La Puente 39--Kelli Kobayashi had 17 points, seven assists and seven rebounds to spark Alemany (24-6) at the Pyramid.

In Division V-AA girls’ basketball:

Palos Verdes Peninsula Chadwick 52, Covina Western Christian 37--Chadwick (26-1) bolted to a 30-15 halftime lead at the Pyramid and won behind Diane Webber’s 18 points and eight rebounds.

In Division III girls’ soccer:

St. Lucy’s 0, West Hills Chaminade 0--The Eagles won a second consecutive section championship, sharing the title with the Regents by holding them without a goal.

In Division IV girls’ soccer:

Ventura St. Bonaventure 0, Sierra Madre Maranatha 0--The Seraphs and Minutemen shared the division title.

CITY SECTION

In 3-A boys’ basketball:

Sylmar 53, Birmingham 48--Sylmar (19-9) held Birmingham without a field goal for six minutes in the fourth quarter, rallying from a 10-point deficit.

In 3-A girls’ basketball:

Bell 64, Fairfax 50--Linda Tran scored eight of her 12 points in a decisive third quarter for the third-seeded Eagles.

In 4-A boys’ soccer:

Reseda 3, Bell 2--Oscar Sims scored two goals in the final 20 minutes to lift Reseda.

In 4-A girls’ soccer:

Chatsworth 3, San Pedro 1--The Chancellors won their third consecutive 4-A title, building a 3-0 first-half lead on goals by Beezy Preis, Shannon DeVos and Jackie Fodor.

In 3-A girls’ soccer:

Westchester 3, Garfield 1 (OT)--Westchester forward Mariane McAdam beat goalkeeper Andrea Otero with a low shot 14 minutes into overtime for the winning goal.