Girls basketball: Mesa suffers frostbite

BELLFLOWER - The Costa Mesa High girls basketball team, after a

decent shooting performance in the first half, went ice cold in the

second half, resulting in a 56-40 loss to Los Alamitos in the

Mayfair-Bellflower Tournament Friday night.

The Mustangs missed 27 of 31 shots taken in the second half and

actually had more three pointers (eight) than two pointers (six).

“Our problems were inside the arc,” Mesa Coach Jim Weeks said. “In

addition to our cold shooting, we gave up 18 offensive rebounds in the

second, which won’t get it done.”

Nancy Hatsushi and Rhondi Naff led the Mustangs with 11 points each,

while Leigh Marshall added nine points on three treys.

Costa Mesa will wrap up play in the tournament at 9:30 a.m. at Mayfair

High.

MAYFAIR-BELLFLOWER TOURNAMENT

Fifth place semifinals

Los Alamitos 56, Costa Mesa 40

Costa Mesa 7 22 4 7 - 40

Los Alamitos 10 13 21 12 - 56

Costa Mesa - Grewal 2, Hatsushi 11, Marshall 9, Muniz 2, Naff 11,

Trejo 5, Bello 0, Carich 0, Caron 0, Cooper 0, Lazos 0.

3 pt. goals - Hatsushi 3, Marshall 3, Naff 1, Trejo 1.

Fouled out - Caron, Muniz, Lazos.

Los Alamitos - Annie 13, Rachel 6, Melody 1, Stephanie 25, Melissa 11.

3 pt. goals - Rachel.

Fouled out - Rachel.