DIV. V-A: PRICE'S 7TH CONSECUTIVE TITLE TIES RECORD PRICE 67, RENAISSANCE 37.Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News The Renaissance period in Southern Section Div. V-A V-A abbr. ventriculoatrial boys' basketball will have to wait for at least another season. That's because for the seventh year in a row, Price was right on target in the division championship game. For the first nine minutes of Thursday's final at Loyola Marymount University's Gersten Pavilion The Gersten Pavilion is a 4,156 seat multi-purpose arena in Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the Loyola Marymount University Lions. It was built in 1981. It is also the part-time practice home for the Los Angeles Lakers. , second-seeded Renaissance Academy Renaissance Arts Academy is an alternative public charter high school of the Los Angeles Unified School District in Los Angeles, California. Curriculum The school Website states: The study method developed by L. Ron Hubbard is the key to effective learning. Mr. of La Canada demonstrated it could compete with Price of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . But during the final 23 minutes, the top-seeded Knights showcased why they're the standard of excellence for small-school basketball, not only in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , but in the state. Price scored 16 of the final 18 points in the first half and didn't let up in the second to cruise to a 67-37 victory, tying Dominguez of Compton for the all-time Southern Section record with its seventh consecutive title. ``I think in the end the experience just took over,'' said Renaissance Academy coach Sid Cooke, whose team became the latest victim in Price's dominant run, which features an average margin of victory of 31.7 points in title games. ``You can only experience those things by playing in an environment like this. There were moments where we thought we could play with them, and then we got lax.'' Renaissance Academy (23-6), making its first appearance in a division final in the program's five-year existence, relied on the play of freshman point guard Justin Cook Justin Ryan Cook (born April 4, 1982 in Lubbock, Texas) is the line producer for YuYu Hakusho and Fullmetal Alchemist. He is also a voice actor and does the voices of Yusuke Urameshi and Puu in the English version of the YuYu Hakusho (13 points) and senior forward Leif Williams (nine points, 11 rebounds) to play Price (25-4) to 16-12 after one quarter. But the Wildcats went cold from the field in the second and scored two points in the final seven minutes. ``They get you on those runs and that's what beat us,'' said Cooke, whose team shot 14 of 53 (26.4 percent) from the field and was outscored 54-16 in the paint. |
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