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Although they won
the South Coast Conference South Division and
finished the regular season on a nine-game winning
streak, the Cerritos College men's basketball team
will still have to open the Southern California
Regional Playoffs on the road this Wednesday. The
Falcons were seeded #17 out of 20 teams and will
have to travel to #16-seeded Los Angeles Valley
College in a 7:00 p.m. matchup. The winner of the
game will have to face top-seeded Saddleback College
(25-7) on the road Saturday night.
The Monarchs
(16-11) were the third place team in the Western
State Conference South Division and offer an
interesting matchup for Cerritos. Both teams are not
very big and rely on team speed and defense for
their success. The Falcons have received a great
deal of rebounding support from the entire squad,
led by freshman forward
Marcellus
Jackson (Independence HS), who
averages 10.8 rebounds a game. Sophomore guard
Van Girard (Gahr HS) is second
on the team in rebounding, while more than half of
his boards come on the offensive end.
Curtis Leslie
leads LA Valley with 9.0 rebounds a game and also
averages 12.5 points a game. As a team, the Monarchs
have four players scoring in double figures and are
paced by Chris Horstman and his 13 points a game.
The meeting
between these two teams will be the first since an
84-81 Cerritos win during the 1990-91 season, while
the Falcons lead the overall series, 21-4.
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