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SACRAMENTO - If John Wooden was considered the Wizard of Westwood, Leonard De Coud might be the Wizard of Riverside. De Coud turned a four-win team into a CIF state title contender in a matter of months. The J.W. North girls' basketball team came ...

Division I Mater Dei of Santa Ana vs. Berkeley Mater Dei (34-1) meets Berkeley (27-2) in the Division I championship game for the second year in a row. Mater Dei won last season's game, 59-47. For Mater Dei, this will be the Monarchs' fifth tri...

CARSON -- Kimberly Pickett came up with big shot after big shot in Narbonne's come-from-behind, 50-44, victory in the CIF City Section Division I girls basketball championship game at Cal State Dominguez Hills on Saturday night. She hit a buzzer-b...

LOS ANGELES -- The Palisades girls' basketball team had to fend off a gutsy Monroe team in the final seconds of the CIF City Section Division 2 championship game on Friday night. Palisades won the game, 53-49, at the Roybal Learning Center to secu...

Jaclyn Johnson, the coach of the Bellarmine-Jefferson girls basketball team, has resigned as the team awaits the CIF state basketball playoff pairings, according to a report on the Daily News High School Sports Spotlight blog. Bell-Jeff lost to Se...

Three players were ejected from a girls' basketball game between Palisades and Agoura at the Oaks Christian tournament according to a story on the ESPNLA preps page on Dec. 29. Ashlie Bruner was the player from Palisades who was ejected for fighti...

The Sacred Heart girls basketball team walks a mile through gang-infested Lincoln Heights every day for practice. They believe in safety in numbers, never walk alone, and are guided by their coach Greg Nakashima through the dangerous streets from the...

The Daily News broke down the new CIF-Southern Section divisions for boys' and girls' basketball and found a huge disparity in public and private schools. The biggest disparity is in Division 2A and 2AA. There are 16 public schools ranked in both ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to correctly identify the name of the Palisades player who was ejected. Please read that update here. The Agoura and Palisades girls' basketball team didn't stay in the holiday spirit for very long. Th...

A girls' basketball and track coach at Bellflower High School has been arrested and charged with sexual assault against a former student, according to a statement released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Bryan Shepherd, 47, was tak...

The Windward girls basketball team upset MacArthur of Texas, the No. 8 ranked team in the nation by ESPNHS, 56-50 in the first round of the Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona. MacArthur (18-1) lost for the first time this season. Sophomore po...

The Oak Park and St. Bonaventure girls basketball teams played a game for the ages in the Bishop Diego Tournament. Oak Park won the tournament beating St. Bonaventure, 98-90 in five overtimes, in the championship game. The game was the longest in Sou...

SACRAMENTO - Banged up and slow out of the gate, the Mater Dei girls' basketball team had to earn the CIF Division I championship against Berkeley. Mater Dei coach Kevin Kiernan said his girls perhaps started the game too conservatively, playing not ...

SACRAMENTO -- The Santa Maria St. Joseph girls' basketball team used a third-quarter surge to beat Bishop O'Dowd, 53-42, in the championship game of the CIF Division III playoffs at Power Balance Pavillion on Saturday. Kelsi English and Brianna Bo...

SACRAMENTO - Windward's Jordin Canada knocked down a 3-pointer with 43 seconds left in CIF State Division IV girls basketball championship game and gave her team a 51-47 win over St. Mary's of Berkeley. Windward had a five-point lead, 43-38, enter...

SACRAMENTO -- The Stockton St. Mary's girls' basketball team was full of surprises in the CIF State Division II championship game against Rialto at Power Balance Pavillion on Friday night. Sophomore Courtney Range scored a career-high 17 points in...