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was excellent,” Mosley said. “He put together one of his best defensive games. He stepped up and made so many open looks. He’s super athletic and it was really a perfect game for him.”

Rancho Christian’s best player offensively was Evan Mobley, a five-star recruit and USC commit, who had 21 points in the game.

Although the Cardinals double-teamed him throughout the night, 6-foot-8 Lowery guarded him early in the game and 6-foot-4

Soares took over later on.

“Our guys did an OK job of double-teaming him and making it hard on him,” Mosley said. “We did a great job defensively on the movement on the ball.

I thought that was the big difference.”

SCCS is scheduled to play Sheldon in the

BattleZONE finals tonight at 6:30 p.m. Last season, Sheldon made it to the Open Division finals of the CIF State championships but fell to Sierra Canyon, 76-52.

“It’s going to be important for us to match the physicality and stay together,” Mosley said, “and defensively, compete hard. My main focus is we continue to play together and match the physicality.”

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We stayed together and didn’t give up and I think when you do that, things start flowing a lot better.”

James Mosley,

SCCS boys basketball coach