{"id":1965,"date":"2010-02-27T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/tonight-cif-girls-bball-semis-poly-vs-etiwanda\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T06:06:00","slug":"tonight-cif-girls-bball-semis-poly-vs-etiwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/tonight-cif-girls-bball-semis-poly-vs-etiwanda","title":{"rendered":"TONIGHT: CIF Girls&#8217; BBall Semis, Poly Vs. Etiwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">No, you don&#8217;t have d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, Poly will again be hosting Etiwanda in a CIF semifinal tonight\u2014but this time it&#8217;ll be the girls&#8217; teams clashing, at Cabrillo at 7pm.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The Eagles are now all that stand between Poly and a fifth-consecutive CIF title game appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Etiwanda&#8217;s strength, unlike most high school girls&#8217; teams, is in the paint\u2014their top two scorers are both post players, and they don&#8217;t lean too heavily on their guards.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Instead, if Poly wants to continue their run of defensive dominance in the postseason, they&#8217;ll contend with Jasmine Bernard (#14), a 6&#8217;1&#8243; senior center averaging 11 points and 7 rebounds a game, and Jada Blackwell (#22), their six-foot junior power forward and top scorer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>She&#8217;s averaging 12 points a game, but is versatile enough that she can get a lot higher than that (she erupted for 20 against Millikan in the quarterfinals).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>If Ta&#8217;Nitra Byrd, in her second game back from a knee injury, and Sheila Boykin can make life miserable in the paint for the Eagles, the Rabbits should be able to produce enough offense (either in the paint or on the perimeter) to roll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>St. Anthony is also in a semifinal tonight\u2014come back to LBPOSTsports.com for live updates of both games this evening!<o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, you don&#8217;t have d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, Poly will again be hosting Etiwanda in a CIF semifinal tonight\u2014but this time it&#8217;ll be the girls&#8217; teams, at Cabrillo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}