Championship basketball returns to SJND
Congratulations to our basketball teams for very successful seasons. Our women’s basketball team finished their season with a 21-8 record and made it to the semi-final round of the North Coast Section (NCS) playoffs, the deepest they have went into the playoffs in nearly a dozen years. Our men’s team is the 2009 North Coast Section Division V Champion, the 10th Section Championship in the school’s history and second most of all-time. With this championship, SJND is the first school to win a title in three divisions (I, IV and V). The Boys team opened up play in the NorCal Championships against Woodside Priory on March 10th with an exciting win. They won again on March 12th in a semi-final match up against Redding Christian.
Our Men’s Basketball team won the Northern California Championship this past Saturday with a thrilling 42-40 over Branson School. I hope you have had the chance to read the newspaper accounts of this game. It was indeed one for the ages!
We now advance to the State Championship game to be held this Friday at 1:30PM at Arco Arena in Sacramento. As it so happens, we have a school holiday this Friday for St. Joseph day. We will have a student rooters bus going to the game as well as many faculty and staff whom I know will travel to the game. We are now attempting to secure our fourth state championship in men’s basketball. Our last state championship was in 2004 when we won the championship in Division IV. Prior to that, of course, were the school’s back to back state championships in Division I in 1991 and 1992.
For more about our victory over Branson see these articles in the Oakland Tribune:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/ci_11918868
http://www.insidebayarea.com/high-school-sports/ci_11917033
And this article from the San Francisco Chronicle profiling Coach Don Lippi and his son Dominic:
A YouTube video of game highlights is below.
Tags: basketball, Branson, championship, cif, division V, ncs, Pilots, playoffs, SJND, state
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