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)
Westmont holds on for dear life against San Mateo, punches ticket to CCS championship and NorCal tournament
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.