Taft, Dominguez, Narbonne, Poly, and View Park win titles

Taft took the title to their side of the hill with a 65-55  victory, and Narbonne kept the title on this side with a 68-57 win.
Tafts  Larry Drew Jr., son of former Lakers guard Larry Drew, Sr., put on a  show and was the driving force behind Tafts victory over defending City  and State champion Fairfax.  Drew, a point guard who is headed to North  Carolina, spent most of the night in the paint as he scored 24 points  and had six assists.
Drew drove the lane at will and made some  acrobatic lay ups that were Kobe Bryant like, including one under the  stretched-out arms of 6-foot-10 Renardo Sidney, who is the No. 1 junior  in the nation.
Taft held an eight-point halftime lead, as they held  Sidney to only four first-half points.  Fairfax struggled to get the  ball down to Sidney and they had to settle for a number of long-ranged  jumpers.
Sidney picked his game up in the third quarter, where he  scored 10 points and Fairfax closed the gap to three points.  But Taft  quickly rebuilt their lead and was up by double digits for most of the  fourth period.  Sidney finished with 23 points.
Tafts Justin Hawkins  scored 13 points, and Eugene Phelps scored 11.
This is Tafts second  title in recent years.  They defeated Fairfax for the City title in  2004 with former UCLA Bruin and current Laker Jordan Farmer as their  point guard.  That season Fairfax went on to win the State title.
Taft  is the clear favorite to win the State Division I title.  They have  routed Dominguez twice, they defeated Westchester earlier this season,  and now they have defeated Fairfax.
In the girls bracket  Narbonne has restored order in the City.  They were stripped of their  2006 City title and banned from post-season play last year.
Last  month they lost their first Marine League game in 12 years when  Washington edged them out.  After avenging their defeat to Washington,  they captured their seventh City title, the last one coming in 2004.
Narbonnes  Teiko Thomas scored 26 points, and Tipsea Moorer had 19.
In the  small schools bracket View Parks boys and girls teams defeated LACES.
The  View Park girls defeated LACES 54-43.  View Park led by as many as 20  points in the game.  Junior forward Shaneva Hayward led the team with 16  points, and Danielle Pruitt scored 15.  Her sister, Natasha Pruitt,  scored nine.
Jasmine Scott scored 18 points for LACES.
The View  Park boys team had a rough start but they pulled away as they defeated  LACES 67-49.  View Park fell behind by 14 points in the second quarter,  but sophomore guard Bryce Jones came off the bench to lead the comeback.   Jones scored 33 points and had 14 rebounds.
In the Southern  Section the Dominguez boys team proved why they were seeded No. 1 over  Mater Dei, who was 31-0 and ranked second in the nation by USA Today.
Dominguez  led by as much as 12 points in the first half and held off Mater Dei to  win 63-60, giving Dominguez head coach Russell Otis his 11th Southern  Section title.
Dominguezs junior forward, Jordan Hamilton, and  senior guard, Bryce Cartwright, scored 16 points each.
In the  girls division it looks like Long Beach Poly can be penciled in for  their third State title in a row.  After blasting Lynwood 57-32,  top-seeded Poly routed No. 2 seed Long Beach Millikan 66-33.
It is  no surprise that Poly won the game, but after the two teams split their  two Moore League games during the regular season, it would have been  hard to imagine Poly defeating Millikan by so many points.
This is  Polys third Southern Section title in four years.
Polys Jasmine  Dixon, who is headed to Rutgers, scored 14 points, and Monique Oliver  and Ariya Williams scored 12 points each.  Poly shot 44% from the field,  while they held Millikan to only 19%.  Dixon left the game midway  through the third quarter because Poly was up by so many points.