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High school basketball roundup

Artesia clinches Suburban League

Artesia 82, Cerritos 55: Guard Kejuan Johnson scored a career-high 28 points to lead this Artesia win in Suburban League play last Friday. The win clinched a tie for the league title for Artesia.

Mayfair 64, Bellflower 48: Chris Childress led the victors with 14 points in this Suburban League win last Friday.

Huntington Park 64, South Gate 51: Guard Edwin Castro had 24 points, but it was not enough as Huntington Park prevailed in this Eastern League game last Friday.

Paramount 76, Alhambra 60: Guard Chris Campbell scored 30 points to lead Paramount's Pirates to this wild card win Wednesday in the Southern Section Division I-AA CIF Playoffs.

Edison 59, Warren 42: Guard Dennis Moore scored 19 points but it was not enough to hold off Edison in this Southern Section CIF Division I-AA Playoff at Edison Wednesday.

Bellflower 63, Bosco Tech 61 (OT): Kendrick Sanders scored 18 points to lead Bellflower to a hard-fought win in Division II-AA of the CIF Southern Section Playoffs Wednesday.

Santa Margarita 70, Gahr 25: Marques Williams led Gahr with 8 points in this CIF Southern Section Division II-AA Playoff game Wednesday.

Mayfair 64, Palm Springs 44: Justin Hawkins scored 19 points to lead the Monsoons to this easy Division III-AA Southern Section CIP Playoff win Wednesday.

Girls play:

Huntington Park 34, South Gate 31: Myra Johnson led South Gate with 9 points, but it was not enough in this Eastern League game last Friday.

Bellflower 40, Mayfair 36: Rebecca Mendez hit two free throws in the final seconds to cinch this Suburban League win last Friday.

Artesia 70, Cerritos 28: Cacie Pope led the victors with 16 points in this Suburban League win last Friday.

Dolphins earn March Junior Olympics berths

DOWNEY-When the two-day "I Love Swimming" Short Course ABC Swim Meet, in which 566 athletes from all over Southern California competed at the Downey Community Aquatics Center, was over, these Dolphin swimmers (out of 56 entrants) qualified for the 2002 Spring Junior Olympics in March when they made "AAA" times in their events:

Marshay Aguilar, 50 free and 100 breaststroke; Taylor Alba, 100 butterfly; Jonathan Chang, 50 and 100 free, 100 and 200 breaststroke, 400 and 200 IM; Thuy-Mi Dinh, 50, 500 and 1,650 free, 100 and 200 backstroke, 200 butterfly, and 400 IM; Yvette Ball, 100 backstroke; Ashley Kang, 100 butterfly and 200 IM; Daniel Kim, 100 and 200 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 IM; Jane Kim, 100 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, 400 IM, 500 and 1,650 freestyle; Minah Kim, 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke; Nam-Hee Kim, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, and 400 IM; Nikos Kostianis, 50, 100, and 500 free, 100 backstroke, 200 IM; David Mendez, 50 and 100 free, 100 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM; Mari Nada, 100 and 200 free, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, 50 and 100 butterfly, 100 and 200 IM; Stephanie Rosero, 50, 100, and 200 free, 50 and 100 backstroke, 50 and 100 butterfly, and 200 IM; Rose Yoon, 100 and 200 free, 50 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, and 200 IM; Sofia Patronis, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke and 200 IM; and Michael Wong, 200 IM, 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly and 100 breaststroke.

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