Lance Smith, SBLive Sports

Lance Smith, SBLive Sports

Lance Smith is a Reporter for SBLive Sports, covering basketball, football, and softball in California's Southern Section and LA City Section since 2019. He also covers Nevada and National Girls Basketball.

SBLive's L.A. City Section girls basketball rankings (3/15/2024): Birmingham ends season No. 1; Granada Hills Charter rises after regional title
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SBLive's L.A. City Section girls basketball rankings (3/15/2024): Birmingham ends season No. 1; Granada Hills Charter rises after regional title

With the 2023-24 basketball season over in California, the dust has finally cleared on another riveting season of L.A. City Section girls hoops. The City

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Etiwanda rolls Archbishop Mitty to repeat as California girls basketball state champion: 5 takeaways
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Etiwanda rolls Archbishop Mitty to repeat as California girls basketball state champion: 5 takeaways

SACRAMENTO - When Etiwanda won its first ever CIF State Open Division girls basketball title a year ago against Archbishop Mitty, it couldn't have been much

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Harvard-Westlake girls basketball sprints to the finish line, beats Colfax for state title: 5 takeaways
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Harvard-Westlake girls basketball sprints to the finish line, beats Colfax for state title: 5 takeaways

SACRAMENTO - Through three quarters, Harvard-Westlake and Colfax were locked in a neck-and-neck battle for a CIF Division II State title. But Harvard-Westlake

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St. Bernard's girls basketball stuffs Grossmont for  state title: 5 takeaways
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St. Bernard's girls basketball stuffs Grossmont for state title: 5 takeaways

SACRAMENTO - St. Bernard's Academy has a student population of under 250, and is nearly a 300-mile drive away from Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.  But the

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Bishop Montgomery girls basketball rides hot start to Division 1 State (CIF) title win over Bishop O'Dowd: 5 takeaways
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Bishop Montgomery girls basketball rides hot start to Division 1 State (CIF) title win over Bishop O'Dowd: 5 takeaways

SACRAMENTO — Although Bishop Montgomery girls basketball entered Friday with a gaudy six state titles, its last one had come when its current players were yet

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Emmi Almeida leads Caruthers to Division 3 State title over Granada Hills Charter: 5 takeaways
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Emmi Almeida leads Caruthers to Division 3 State title over Granada Hills Charter: 5 takeaways

SACRAMENTO - Caruthers girls basketball is no longer synonymous with small-ball and three-point shootouts like in recent years. Last season was a banner year

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Etiwanda girls basketball outlasts Sierra Canyon once more, repeats as regional champion: 5 takeaways
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Etiwanda girls basketball outlasts Sierra Canyon once more, repeats as regional champion: 5 takeaways

Etiwanda girls basketball broke through to win its first CIF-SS Open Division title two years ago and then its first Open Division State title last season. On

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Etiwanda holds off Sierra Canyon for CIF Southern California Regional Open Division championship – Live updates
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Etiwanda holds off Sierra Canyon for CIF Southern California Regional Open Division championship – Live updates

After two postseasons of splitting playoff meetings with the Trailblazers, Etiwanda is over the hump against Sierra Canyon. And back in the CIF State Open

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Look: Pleasant Valley's AJ Gambol sinks Oakland Tech at buzzer in state quarterfinals
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Look: Pleasant Valley's AJ Gambol sinks Oakland Tech at buzzer in state quarterfinals

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Top 25 California high school girls basketball rankings (3/1/2024): St. Mary's rises following CIF-SJS championship
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Top 25 California high school girls basketball rankings (3/1/2024): St. Mary's rises following CIF-SJS championship

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SBLive's L.A. City Section girls basketball rankings (2/26/2024): No. 1 Birmingham, No. 9 Poly, No. 10 Kennedy win section titles; Garfield debuts
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SBLive's L.A. City Section girls basketball rankings (2/26/2024): No. 1 Birmingham, No. 9 Poly, No. 10 Kennedy win section titles; Garfield debuts

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Canyon (Anaheim) girls basketball outduels Rancho Cucamonga for CIF-SS 4AA title: 5 takeaways
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Canyon (Anaheim) girls basketball outduels Rancho Cucamonga for CIF-SS 4AA title: 5 takeaways

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