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To anybody who followed the Lynbrook girls basketball team this season, every game was a potential long-range shooting exhibition. That is, if No. 10 Laura Crisler was in the house. Simply, the 5-foot-8 sharp-shooter could shoot from beyond the arc. Her 102 three-point baskets accounted for the fourth largest total among California girls.
Early on, it was obvious that Crisler's senior season would be something special, scoring 20 points or more in three of the Vikings' first five games and knocking down five or more three-point goals in five of the first eight contests. She only got better as the season went along.
She scored in double figures in all but one of Lynbrook's 15 non-league games, in 10 of 12 contests in the El Camino Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League and in the Vikes' CCS tournament game against Leland. Her most incredible game may have been in a three-point defeat to Monta Vista on Feb. 7. She tied her season high of six three-pointers and scored 26 of the Vikings' 31 points.
Crisler, who scored 445 points in 28 games, a 15.9 per-game average, ranked second in overall scoring to Sophia Tam of Monta Vista. Tam, who scored eight more points than Crisler in one less game, averaged 16.8 points per game. She scored less than 10 only twice in 27 games, and scored 20 or more on 10 occasions. The El Camino coaches recently acknowledged the outstanding efforts of the league's two best scorers, naming Crisler Senior of the Year and Tam Junior of the Year.
Both are part of the 11-member all-El Camino first team, along with Monta Vista junior Kaila Li and Lynbrook freshman Diana Lee. Li averaged 8.2 points per game this season for the Matadors. Lee, the Freshman of the Year, averaged 9.0 points a game for Lynbrook and her 49 assists ranked second among El Camino performers.
The 10-member second team includes Lynbrook junior Emily Shen, the division's top rebounder (10.2 per game), and Cupertino sophomore Victoria Wu.
Kadokura goes 1-2
Grant Kadokura's first experience at the CIF State Wrestling Championships was short-lived, but positive. The Monta Vista junior, who placed fourth at the CCS meet the previous week, earned his first victory at the state level, but later was eliminated with a 1-2 record.
In the 112-pound class with 37 others, Kadokura's first bout at Bakersfield's Rabobank Arena on March 3 was a tough assignment--the champion of the Central Section. Kadokura showed some spark against Buchanan-Clovis sophomore Justin Arredondo, but lost a 14-6 decision.
Kadokura wasted no time getting started in the consolation bracket. The Matador needed just 29 seconds to pin Washington-San Francisco senior Robert Malaca. However, in his next match Kadokura was eliminated, 5-1, by Kevin Tang of Centennial-Corona.
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