CIF: Compton Dominguez High boys must go on road for basketball playoffs
HIGH SCHOOLS
Southern Section executive committee upholds a prior postseason home ban against the Dons.
Compton Dominguez High will have to play all varsity boys' basketball playoff games away from its campus this school year, following Thursday's vote by the CIF Southern Section executive committee to uphold a prior postseason home ban against the Dons.
By a 14-1 vote, the committee denied Dominguez's appeal to a summer ruling that came after Dominguez officials failed to deliver gate revenues from basketball playoff games to section officials in a timely manner.
Athletic Director Russell Otis said Dominguez had been warned previously about being late turning over game revenue, and when it happened again after the Dons hosted and won a Southern Section boys' basketball championship at Anaheim's Honda Center in March, discipline was delivered.
Otis said Dominguez administrators would appeal the ruling, but the executive committee stood its ground, meaning the Dons will have to play on the road where a neutral site is not mandated.
The appeal's denial comes one day after Otis was placed on an indefinite leave of absence by the Compton Unified School District for an undisclosed "personnel-related matter."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's special victims unit is investigating an allegation against Otis, 46, who has directed the Dons' boys' basketball team to 10 Southern Section championships and six state titles since 1988.
