La Jolla Country Day and Cathedral are where they’re supposed to be, according to the seeds. Madison is a welcome surprise.
That’s the state of San Diego Section basketball today as the section’s final three go into tonight’s Southern California regional finals.
The girls saved the day after the boys went out early, with a thud, despite most boys teams having better seeds and playing at home.
The young men did not beat a team in the first round that had a seed poorer than 10 and the 4 boys winners all went out in the next round.
The La Jolla Country Day girls, ranked number one in the state and in the country, according to Max Preps, will be at home to face No. 4 L.A. Windward, after getting past troublesome Rancho Cucamonga Etiwanda, 54-44, in the Open Division semifinals.
IZZY DOES IT
Cathedral’s Izzy Navarro scored seven of her 12 points in the fourth quarter and her steal and basket with 20 seconds left finally put away Studio City Harvard-Westlake, 59-56, in the D-I semifials and send the Dons to another home game against Fullerton Rosary.
The get to the semifinals the No. 1-seed Dons needed a 63-47, quarterfinals victory over Garden Grove Orangewood, which had beaten Cathedral, 65-63 and 64-61, in two earlier encounters.
Madison, which has been upsetting teams since the D-V regional pairings were announced will try to beat the odds again The 10 seed Warhawks entered the San Diego Section postseason with a 10-16 record, compliments of a mid-season, nine-game losing streak,.
Madison (18-17) will make a 228-mile trek to East Bakersfield (22-9). The Max Preps computer rates the Blades 293rd in California, 124 places better than the scrappy squad from Northeast Clairemont.
GIRLS WEEK 18
*Southern Section ^L.A. City ^^Central
| DIVISION | TEAM / RECORD | MAX PREPS STATE RATING | SEMIFINALS | NEXT OPPONENT / RECORD | MAX PREPS STATE RATING |
| OPEN | 1 La Jolla Country Day / 32-1 | 1 | 4 Rancho Cucamonga Etiwanda, 54-44* | 4 L.A. Windward / 27-5* | 4 |
| I | 1 Cathedral / 21-11 | 16 | 4 Studio City Harvard Westlake, 59-56* | 2 Fullerton Rosary / 22-12* | 15 |
| V | 10 Madison / 18-17 | 417 | 6 San Diego, 46-37 | 4 East Bakersfield / 22-9^^ | 293 |
| II | 6 Marian / 20-10 | 54 | Loss @2 L.A. Pacific Palisades / 60-55^ | Season complete | |
| IV | 12 Point Loma / 24-3 | 104 | Loss @1 Lancaster, 51-44* | Season complete |
