SAMOHI — Santa Monica High School’s boys’ basketball team kept its playoff hopes alive by beating Ocean League rival Morningside, 63-48, Tuesday at home.
The win puts Samohi in a flat-footed tie for third place in a league that sends three teams to the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section playoffs.
If both teams either lose or win their next games — the final ones of the regular season — it would force a one-game playoff to determine the final playoff berth from the league. That game would take place Friday.
Samohi (5-4 in league) will close the regular season Thursday at home against Hawthorne. That game is part of a double-header with the girls’ team. Morningside faces first place Inglewood, also on Thursday.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 10, 2011. Read the original PDF.