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Girls’ basketball: Etiwanda wins state Open Division title

SACRAMENTO — It was 16 minutes of the most beautiful, smothering defense to begin a state championship game that you could have imagined. Unbeaten San José Archbishop Mitty, which had been battering Northern California teams, fell behind by 16 points at halftime to Southern California champion Etiwanda, making just six of 29 shots. Every shot

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Harvard-Westlake wins Division II girls’ basketball state title

SACRAMENTO —  With her voice going hoarse in the fourth quarter Saturday afternoon at Golden 1 Center in the Division II girls’ basketball state championship game, veteran coach Melissa Hearlihy of Harvard-Westlake sucked it up the way she always has in winning 839 games since she started coaching in 1985. “Thank God it’s the last game

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Verdugo Hills loses Division V state basketball championship

SACRAMENTO —  The bus trip to Northern California started with a stop in Stockton, where Verdugo Hills coach Jared Gibson went to school. His mother made dinner for the Dons’ players Thursday night — lasagna, fried chicken, two chocolate cakes and six loaves of bread. If only the state Division V championship game Friday at Golden

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