CAMPBELL — For the first time in 29 years, Westmont boys basketball is in a CCS championship game.

This year’s Warriors, who moved up to the Blossom Valley Athletic League’s Mt. Hamilton Division this season after winning the Santa Teresa-West last year, have gone further than any team from the Campbell school has in nearly three decades.

It wasn’t easy. No. 2 Westmont built a 14-point lead late in the first half that visiting No. 3 San Mateo shrank to one on multiple occasions in the second half. 

But when the clock ran out after Zidane Auzerang’s 3-pointer brought San Mateo within a point, Westmont had earned a 48-47 win, a ticket to the CIF NorCal tournament and a spot in the CCS Division II title matchup on Saturday.

Westmont’s Xavier Mizer (3) dribbles the ball against San Mateo’s Bryan Ehlerman (2) in the third quarter at Westmont High School in Campbell, Calif., on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)