Steve Finley

If a championship is the mark of an outstanding season, Culver City High School’s girls basketball team (31-5) accomplished that by winning the CIF 2AA division. The state title would have been icing. The Lady Centaurs will take the less fattening choice, cake without icing. The Chaminade team that knocked out Culver City by 30 points in the state semifinals last week, won ...

What do you say after a 30-point loss in the semifinals of the State Regional Division 2 AA girls basketball tournament? “We ran into a better team,” said Culver City High School Coach Julian Anderson. But there was so much positive to say about the Lady Centaurs’ gleaming 31-5 season after this week’s 76-46 loss to top-seeded Chaminade in West Hills.

After winning its first two games in the State Regional basketball tournament, a blowout and a tight game, Culver City High School’s girls team faces No. 1 seed Chaminade of West Hills this evening in the Valley in the semi-finals. The No. 4-seeded Lady Centaurs continued their dream season by ...

After winning the CIF 2AA championship last Friday night over Mira Costa, the Culver City High School girls basketball team does not have much time to celebrate. Tomorrow evening the Lady Centaurs, who are 29-4, open the state Regional playoffs with a 7 o’clock game in Del Goodyear Gymnasium against Roosevelt High of Los Angeles.

Track season has not even started, but that did not stop the Culver City High School girls basketball team from sprinting past Foothill of Santa Ana, 57-49, in the third round of the CIF 2AA playoffs on Saturday night at the Del Goodyear Gymnasium. The seventh-seeded Lady Centaurs used quick guards, fast centers and forwards to shoot holes in second-seeded Foothill’s game plan.

Being a sword with two edges, success makes some teams and breaks others. Culver City High School’s girls basketball team is expected to reach the championship game in the CIF 2AA playoffs, and their start last week made a good impression. Although the Lady Centaurs are seventh seeded, they are ...

For the first time since their win over Hawthorne a month ago, the Culver City High School boys basketball team played four strong quarters, and they were rewarded. Their 68-47 blowout win over Westminster last Thursday in Orange County, in the first round of the CIF Division 2AA playoffs, proved they can prevail when they string together four impressive quarters

Despite losing their last six games, the Culver City High School boys basketball team has made the 32-team 2AA CIF playoffs. On Thursday evening at 7, the Centaurs will travel to Orange County to face the 14th seeded Westminster.

For the Culver City High School girls’ basketball team, Ocean League champions three straight years, the 2AA CIF playoffs begin Saturday evening at 7 against Elsinore of the Sunbelt League in the Del Goodyear Gymnasium. Culver City is seeded seventh among the 32 teams.

The Culver City High School boys’ basketball team needs to win both games this week – including tomorrow night at 6 at first-place Beverly Hills – to have a respectable chance of making the CIF playoffs.