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BHHS Boys Basketball Routes Hawthorne After Loss to Culver City

The Normans' boys are now tied for second in the Ocean League.

On Friday night, the Beverly Hills High School boys basketball team opened the second round of Ocean League play with a dominating 70-44 victory over visiting Hawthorne.

Coach Jarvis Turner's squad (12-8 overall, 3-3 in league) was led by captain Austin Mills, who had 23 points, six assists and two steals. Broderick Smith contributed 11 points (going five-for-five from the foul line) and four steals. Ben Cohen and Frank Brown each had eight points and Ronin Massana grabbed a team-best eight rebounds for the Normans, who moved into a tie for second place in the league.

The win came after Beverly Hills' 87-81 overtime loss Wednesday to Culver City in the swim gym.

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The Normans led by three points after the first quarter but were outscored 23-12 in the second and trailed 41-33 at halftime. BHHS then narrowed its deficit to five points going into the fourth quarter and the contest was tied 72-72 at the end of regulation before Culver City outscored the Normans 15-9 in overtime.

Aamahd Walker iced the victory with his resounding dunk that put the Centaurs ahead by 10 points with 17 seconds left. Beverly Hills didn't quit, however, making a pair of two-point baskets in the last 10 seconds to provide the final margin.

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Mills scored 12 of his team-high 19 points in the fourth quarter for the Normans, going six-for-six from the free throw line over the eight minutes. Fellow senior Mike Lanier finished with 14 points, Smith had 13, Brown scored 12 and Willie Green added six for BHHS.

Santa Monica lost to defending league champion Inglewood 65-60 on Friday. Those two teams are tied for first place in league at 5-1.

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Coach John Braddell's squad tried to rebound from Wednesday's 74-52 loss at the hands of archrival Culver City by beating Hawthorne at the swim gym on Friday night, but the gritty Cougars prevailed 68-31 behind 22 points and seven blocks from Mikeisha Moore.

Hawthorne had ended its seven-year, 61-game league losing streak with a 60-42 victory in the teams' first meeting Jan. 11.

On Wednesday, the Normans were bested on the road by archrival Culver City, 74-52, despite 20 points—10 from the free throw line—by freshman forward Natasha Allen. Sophomore guard Jazz Anderson had eight points, junior guard Megan Yee had five and senior forward Sydney Impellizerri added four in the losing effort.

Beverly Hills (9-15, 1-5) remains in fifth place in the league standings, one game in front of winless Morningside, which it hosts at home next Wednesday. 

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