Centennial girls basketball team battles, falls to Sierra Canyon in desert showdown
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INDIO — First-year Centennial girls basketball coach Matt Tumambing is eager to see how his team fares against other elite teams. But when one of those elite teams is missing one of the top players in the country, he sees that as an opportunity to win. That opportunity turned out to be a missed one Tuesday when Centennial’s comeback attempt came up short in a 62-55 loss to Sierra Canyon in the championship game of the T-Mobile Division of the Desert Holiday Classic at Shadow Hills High School. “We wanted to play them full-strength,” said Tumambing, who once coached at Ontario Christian and led the Knights to a 28–5 record and a spot in the 2024 CIF Southern Division...