Mission Wins the City Championship for Boys Basketball!! Lowell beats Lincoln for the Girls’ Title (edit this)
Mission Bears’ boys basketball team won its first City Championship.
This is the first championship for the Mission boys basketball team since 1992-93.
Mission beat Lincoln High School with a score of 63-54. Demaree Hamption, the league’s highest scorer and a junior, scored 20 points and senior Ronell Foster had 20 rebounds to clinch the title.
The wall-to-wall crowd savored the moment that Mission had worked hard to achieve over the last 12 months. Mission made it to last year’s City Championship, only to fall to the perennial powerhouse Lowell. This year, the team remembered their loss and vowed not to repeat it!
Lincoln has 2,400 students while Mission has 864 students.
Well done, Coach Steele and the Bears!!
Lowell Cardinals’ girls basketball team beat Lincoln with free throws in the last seconds of the championship game. The final score of 48-46 reflects two great teams at play in the championship.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 am e
You have another chance to see those winning Lowell hoops stars this evening. Here’s an e-mail from a Lowell girls’ basketball dad:
The Lady Cardinals will play Carlmont at 6 p.m. Monday (March 3) at
Kezar Pavilion in the first round of the California Interscholastic
Federation’s state championship playoffs for Division I (big) schools. If
the Lowell girls win, they take a bus on Tuesday to Arco Arena in Sacramento
for a rematch with Kennedy High School (Sacramento), who defeated the
Cardinals in the same playoffs a year ago.
Carlmont’s record is 23 and 7. Against Lowell’s opponents: the Scots lost to
Gunn 49-56 (so did Lowell, 37-52). Carlmont defeated Pinewood 54-43 (Lowell
59-56 OT). Lincoln 66-59 (Lowell 53-46 and 48-46), Burlingame twice 61-47
and 49-48 (Lowell 54-43). In a preseason scrimmage with Carlmont, Lowell
posted more points.
The Championship game with Lincoln was, to Lowell fans if not to
Lincolndom, the most thrilling come-from-behind game in my memory of any
sport (with the possible exception of Dave Wottle’s 800-meter gold medal in
the 1982 Olympics, which you can view on YouTube by asking Google for his
name).
The gym is Kezar Pavilion on Stanyan Street between Waller and Frederick
streets at the eastern border of Golden Gate Park. Admission, $? The
adjacent parking lot will probably sell “event” tickets for $8. Street
parking is difficult but not impossible. Inside the gym, the Lowell rooters
will probably be found in the bleachers on the northerly side — to your
right as you enter from Stanyan Street. In finding a seat, be aware of the
steel columns that can impede your view. Some people prefer to sit behind
the backboards. It won’t be hard to get a good seat, and more seats will
become available after the first game. If you haven’t seen a girls’
basketball game since the advent of Title IX, you’ll be surprised at the
skills, teamwork and floor burns.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 am e
For some pictures and my account of the games, check out this post. Mission’s championship is truly inspiring. Coach Steele really and his team are a great story. And the Lowell comeback was beyond belief.