Mission Hills pulls away from La Jolla Country Day late, advances in girls basketball playoffs

Mission Hills pulls away from La Jolla Country Day late, advances in girls basketball playoffs

SAN MARCOS — The CIF San Diego Section’s two most dominant girls basketball programs across the past decade collided in the first round of the Open Division playoffs Friday night — earlier than they felt they should — and what unfolded was predictable. A battle. Players risked floor burns, jump balls were aggressively yanked hard by both teams. In a game that had the feel of a championship final before a raucous Mission Hills crowd, the two-time…