<\/span>Here they are (and keep in mind Buggs came to Poly from Lynwood, a story worth its own article):<\/span><\/p>\n2002: Loss vs Lynwood<\/p>\n
2003: Loss vs Lynwood<\/p>\n
2004: Loss vs Lynwood<\/p>\n
2004: Win vs Lynwood<\/p>\n
2006: Loss vs Lynwood<\/p>\n
2007: Win vs Brea<\/p>\n
2008: Win vs Millikan<\/p>\n
2009: Loss vs Cajon<\/p>\n
2010: __? vs Corona Santiago<\/p>\n
Part of the reason coach Buggs hadn’t kept track of it, he said, was that his team hasn’t had as much success at the sectional level as they have at state\u2014they’re 3-5 in the CIF-SS title game but have won four straight state titles. <\/span>“So when you lose, you kind of try and put it behind you and forget about it,” he said. <\/span>“But in the big picture, it’s just consistency\u2014I mean most teams never <\/em>make it to that level, so to see that we did it nine times is amazing.”<\/span><\/p>\nIt is, in fact, pretty amazing. <\/span>So we hit the CIF-SS record books to find out exactly how amazing it was. <\/span>We did our best to check every single year from every single sport to see where the Poly girls’ basketball run of nine straight titles fits in (keep in mind it’s a 327-page book, so we may have missed something). <\/span>A few other teams did finish in the top two, but they’ve moved themselves into pretty rarified territory, and no other basketball team in section history has hit the mark.<\/o:p><\/p>\nHere’s a list of the most D-1 championship appearances, consecutively (teams are listed in the book as either champions or first runner-ups, so some of these are from larger meets):<\/o:p><\/p>\nSan Diego wrestling, <\/strong>1935-1954, 20 straight<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLB Wilson boys’ golf, <\/strong>1942-1955, 14 straight<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\nNewport Harbor boys’ water polo,<\/strong> 1974-1984, 11 straight<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\nPeninsula girls’ tennis,<\/strong> 1991-2001, 11 straight<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLB Poly boys’ gymnastics<\/strong>, 1939-1948, 10 straight<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\nLB Poly girls’ track<\/strong>, 2000-Current, 10 straight<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n*LB Poly girls’ basketball<\/strong>, 2002-Current, 9 straight<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nOne other team (Baldwin Park gymnastics in the 1960s) has rivaled the nine-straight mark, but by qualifying this year the Jackrabbits left behind a lot of competition in the history books who’d stalled at eight straight. <\/span>In terms of basketball, they stand on their own, and not just in Division 1\u2014no other basketball team (boys or girls) in Southern Section history has been to the championship game nine consecutive times. <\/span>Mater Dei’s boys’ team has a string of five, and a string of six (some of those coming in Division 2), and Lynwood girls’ have six straight appearances in the Division 1 final from 2000-2006 (five of those coming against Poly). <\/span>Not bad for a streak the team wasn’t even aware of!<\/p>\nThe Rabbits will face the Corona Santiago Sharks on Saturday, at 8:15pm in the Pyramid, as they try to improve to 4-5 over the last nine years, and win their third title of the last four years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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