All Ball: Mustang boys making History; Girls making progress
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team took a huge step towards winning the Bay League title Friday night when it went on the road and crushed second place Culver City by a score of 65-48. The Mustangs are now 21-1 overall and 6-0 in the league. They are on pace to post the best record in the program’s long history. They have four league games left, all against teams they have already beaten once this year – Peninsula, Palos Verdes, Santa Monica and Redondo. If they win at least three of those four games, they will be assured of winning the Bay League. This would be the second league title won under Coach Neal Perlmutter in only his fifth season. The Bay League championship the Mustangs won in the 2019-2020 season was a total shock to the local hoops community. It also vindicated Costa’s decision to hire Perlmutter away from West, where he had turned that team around from a doormat to a CIF champion in just three years. The Mustang basketball program he took over before the 2018-2019 season had fallen on hard times, with dispirited players who lost every year to their archrival Redondo. Redondo won the league title eight straight years. Not only that, but Perlmutter…
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