Pacific Hills

Los Altos Hills Pinewood used 17 unanswered points in the third quarter to put the state Division V girls' basketball championship game out of reach Friday at Arco Arena and secure its second state title with a 61-39 victory over Pacific Hills. Helen Suarez scored 12 points to lead Pacific Hills, but she was limited to 23 minutes because of foul trouble, and J.J. Magbanua and Chelsea Ray scored 10 each. The Bruins (28-5) made just nine of 42 shots (21.4%) and committed 25 turnovers.

Rank; Team (Division, Record) 1. MATER DEI (SS-1AA, 34-2) SS Division 1AA runner-up, Open Division State champion (2) 2. ETIWANDA (SS-1AA, 28-3) SS Division 1AA champion, Open Division SoCal runner-up (6) 3. LONG BEACH POLY (SS-1AA, 28-4) SS Division 1AA semifinalist, Open Division SoCal semifinalist (3) 4. ST. JOHN BOSCO (SS-3A, 24-7) SS Division 3A champion, Open Division SoCal quarterfinalist (8) 5. PACIFIC HILLS (SS-4A, 29-4) SS Division 4A champion, Division IV State champion (13)

They've caught basketball fever at Brentwood School, where Monday night, instead of dining on $9 cheeseburgers from the gourmet truck in the parking lot, students and fans packed the gymnasium and helped inspire an 81-71 victory over Pacific Hills in a battle for first place in the Alpha League. Tra Holder scored 27 points, Leland King had 23 and Ountae Campbell turned in some stellar defense to lead Brentwood (20-2, 7-1), which is the only team left in the league with one loss. Pacific Hills dropped to 17-4, and 7-2. What a coaching job turned in by second-year Coach Ryan Bailey.

SACRAMENTO - With 39.3 seconds left in the CIF state championship Division II final, 6-foot-6 sophomore Jeremiah Headley of Redondo unleashed a thunderous dunk over a Pleasant Hill College Park defender that not only signaled his arrival as a top player but made the stunned crowd at Sleep Train Arena begin to realize the special accomplishment the Sea Hawks were about to pull off. "That play is a play for the ages," Coach Reggie Morris Jr. said....

Herman Nash is his name, and the 44-year-old former Manual Arts running back has earned a special place in the history of West Hollywood Pacific Hills basketball. He took over running the team on the night of March 2, after Pacific Hills defeated Brentwood in the Southern Section 4A final and head Coach Ivan Barahona left to coach the El Salvador national team. With Nash directing practices and making decisions on the sideline, Pacific Hills went through the gantlet of the CIF Southern California Division IV playoffs, knocking off powerhouses La Verne Lutheran, Gardena Serra and Torrance Bishop Montgomery to earn a spot in Saturday's state championship game in Sacramento.

The Pacific Hills boys' basketball team, for the first time in three weeks, did not have to work overtime to win a championship, as the Bruins defeated Stockton Christian, 69-52, Saturday in the state Division V final at Arco Arena. It was the first state title for the Bruins, and they did it without the drama of their Southern Section and state regional finals. But this one was no less satisfying. "If you wrote a book about destiny, I guess this is it," Pacific Hills Coach John Bobich said.

If anyone wants to know how much high school basketball has changed in the last decade, all you need to do is take a trip to watch one of the ambitious small private school teams and you'd be impressed by the immense talent on the court. It no longer matters how small a school is; all it takes is a few good players, and the team can compete against anyone. That's the case with Los Angeles Windward and Pacific Hills, which met Tuesday night in an Alpha League showdown featuring plenty of future college players.

Back in the good ol' boom days of 1988, the San Diego real estate company Home Capital Corp. bought 416 acres of undeveloped land from the Mission Viejo Co. Plans were to build 1,500 homes on the property, located between the Oso and Marguerite parkways. But since then, the real estate market has collapsed and Home Capital's parent company, Home Federal Savings of San Diego, has seen a lot of the loans it made to developers go sour.

At various times Thursday night, Campbell Hall High played at its peak and at its worst in a Southern Regional Division V semifinal against Pacific Hills. Unfortunately for the Vikings, the worst came in the final minutes. Senior forward Danny Brummel hit a 10-foot bank shot as the buzzer sounded to give Pacific Hills a 44-42 victory at Occidental College. Campbell Hall, the Southern Section Division V-AA champion, did not score in the final 4:33, blowing a nine-point lead.

The boys' basketball faithful from Pacific Hills High in West Hollywood gathered at Brentwood High on Tuesday night for an opening-round state tournament game. Brentwood wasn't the school's opponent, however. It was Reedley Immanuel, from near Fresno. But the gathering could have taken place at any number of gyms, because Pacific Hills doesn't have its own and plays at neighboring schools' when it hosts a game. The Bruins often play home games at Daniel Murphy High or West Los Angeles College.

Herman Nash is his name, and the 44-year-old former Manual Arts running back has earned a special place in the history of West Hollywood Pacific Hills basketball. He took over running the team on the night of March 2, after Pacific Hills defeated Brentwood in the Southern Section 4A final and head Coach Ivan Barahona left to coach the El Salvador national team. With Nash directing practices and making decisions on the sideline, Pacific Hills went through the gantlet of the CIF Southern California Division IV playoffs, knocking off powerhouses La Verne Lutheran, Gardena Serra and Torrance Bishop Montgomery to earn a spot in Saturday's state championship game in Sacramento.

They've caught basketball fever at Brentwood School, where Monday night, instead of dining on $9 cheeseburgers from the gourmet truck in the parking lot, students and fans packed the gymnasium and helped inspire an 81-71 victory over Pacific Hills in a battle for first place in the Alpha League. Tra Holder scored 27 points, Leland King had 23 and Ountae Campbell turned in some stellar defense to lead Brentwood (20-2, 7-1), which is the only team left in the league with one loss. Pacific Hills dropped to 17-4, and 7-2. What a coaching job turned in by second-year Coach Ryan Bailey.

Pacific Hills 82, Antelope Valley Christian 60--Pacific Hills built a 50-15 lead midway through the second quarter and cruised in the Southern Section V-A title game at the Bren Center. Senior point guard Ivan Barahona keyed a 20-0 first-quarter run and finished with 22 points, 10 assists, and eight steals for the Bruins (19-9). Delvin Glymph scored 17 points and Conrad Adamczak added 15 for top-seeded Pacific Hills, which won its second section title in the last three years.

Pacific Hills 69, Arroyo Grande Coastal Christian 59--Pacific Hills (21-9) received balanced scoring, with four players in double figures, to win its second-consecutive Southern Section Division V-A championship at Murphy High. Pacific Hills was paced by senior forwards Danny Brummel, who scored 17 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had one blocked shot, and Westley Allen, who scored 15 points and had five rebounds. Pacific Hills guards Bryan Sterling and Ivan Barahona scored 14 points each.