central section changes

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SoCalHoops Playoff News

A Few Central Section Schedule
& Location Changes--(Feb. 28, 2002)

The Central Section boys' championships will be played tonight. We've already posted the main schedules separately. But there are a couple of notable changes:

1. The CIF Central Section Division IV Championship between San Joaquin Memorial and Garces Memorial will be played at Centennial Garden in Bakersfield, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 28, 2002, rather than at Garces Memorial HS.

Oddly enough, they're just playing the one game at the 7,000-seat arena, which is kind of weird because if someone went to all the trouble and cost of getting that facility, it would make sense to schedule all the other games there as well....But unlike the other CIF Section in SoCal, that's not going to happen, at least not this year.

2. The Central Section Division V Championship will be hosted by Mission Prep, who will play Immanuel on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. @ San Luis Obispo HS. The Mission Prep girls will be hosting the Immanuel / Coast Union winner on Friday night at 6:00 p.m., also at San Luis Obispo HS. Both teams from Mission Prep are the #1 seeds and thus the home teams, according to Tom Mott, the boys head coach at Mission Prep.