The winter prep sports season is over: Four area teams lose in state tournaments
The winter season for area high school sports came to an end Thursday as two basketball teams and two soccer teams lost in state tournaments.
Thursday night was the final prep game for Camarillo High superstar Gabriela Jaquez, who had a record-setting career and will now head to UCLA in the fall. Jaquez finished with 37 points, 16 rebounds and three blocks before fouling out in the Scorpions' 67-49 loss to third-seeded and host Bishop Montgomery in the second round of the CIF-State Division I girls basketball tournament.
Christa Contreras added three points and six rebounds for the 11th-seeded Scorpions, who played their final four postseason games on the road, including a loss to Viewpoint in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 final. Camarillo finished 30-3 to become just the seventh area girls basketball team to win 30 games in a single season.
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Another local basketball team had its historic season ended Thursday night.
The Villanova Prep boys team suffered a 61-60, heartbreaking loss to 12th-seeded La Quinta, which hit the game-winning layup with 2.5 seconds left, in a Division V second-round game at home.
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Shawn Tuano had 23 points and 13 rebounds, Diesel Lowe scored 12 points, Gavin Day had 11 points and six rebounds and Issei Nakao dished out 10 assists for the fourth-seeded Wildcats, who won the CIF-SS Division 5AA title last Friday for the school's first CIF basketball title in its 98-year history and also won a game in the state tournament for the first time.
Soccer
The Pacifica High boys soccer team's first trip to the CIF-State SoCal Division II regional semifinals ended with a 5-0 loss to Torrey Pines in San Diego.
Torrey Pines, a San Diego Section Open Division semifinalist, led 3-0 at the half.
"They were good," said Pacifica head coach Andrew Navarro.
Pacifica's season ended at 15-8-8.
In a rematch of last week's CIF-Southern Section Division 2 semifinal, the Oaks Christian girls soccer team lost to visiting Rancho Cucamonga-Los Osos in a penalty-kick shootout.
After the match went scoreless after regulation and overtime, Los Osos converted three penalty kicks while the Lions were blanked in the shootout.
Oaks Christian (19-2-5) beat Los Osos, 2-1, last week in the sectional semifinals on two late goals from freshman Isa Weider.
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