Girls’ basketball: Dixon leads No. 1 Poly past No. 8 Redondo

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The much-anticipated matchup between the Southland’s pre-eminent girls basketball players had a very decisive winner.

Jasmine Dixon, pictured, of top-ranked Long Beach Poly scored 14 points, grabbed 17 rebounds, and had three steals and three blocks to lead the Jackrabbits to a 55-41 nonleague victory Saturday over No. 8 Redondo on Saturday.

Dixon, a Rutgers-bound guard/forward, was five for 11 from the field as she easilyy outplayed UCLA-bound Atonye Nyingifa.

Nyingifa scored an inconsequential 14 points -- seven in the fourth quarter -- on the worst shooting night of hher career, she said. Nyingifa made only one of her first 16 shots from the field, and missed 12 in a row during a stretch of 20 minutes 54 seconds.

She was guarded most of the game by April Cook.

Kristalle Fountain led Redondo (20-3) with 15 points, and Monique Oliver scored 18 with 13 rebounds for Poly (19-2).

-- Martin Henderson

-- Image by Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times