Cathedral boys’ basketball is back to haunting league foes

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It’s been nine days since the Cathedral boys’ basketball team suffered its first defeat of the season and since then the Phantoms have been haunting Camino Real League foes with an attack so balanced it’s frightening.

Cathedral’s gym has been a house of horrors for visiting teams this season -- all except for Beckman, which escaped with a 52-49 nonleague victory last Tuesday in a game in which Cathedral’s 6-5 center Bryan Mejia didn’t play.

The Phantoms won their first 18 games and if that first defeat damaged their psyche, they haven’t shown it. Led by junior forward William Bell (25 points and 12 rebounds), senior guard Marcus Zozulenko (10 points) and sophomore guard Sergio Leon (10 points), Cathedral improved to 20-1 overall and 5-0 in league with a convincing 62-48 victory over St. Monica on Wednesday.

Coach Sheldon McCorn, a former assistant at Artesia, has his squad halfway to a league title. Ranked third in Division IV-A behind Cerritos Valley Christian and defending champion Twentynine Palms, Cathedral is winning by a margin of 15 points a game and Mejia, Leon, Bell are all scoring in double digits.

This is surely not a team to be taken lightly when the playoffs roll around, especially if the Phantoms have home-court advantage.

-- Steve Galluzzo, guest blogger

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