Buena’s Road to Final Goes Down Easy Street : Girls’ basketball: Bulldogs secure their sixth consecutive trip to final with 59-34 rout of Chino.

CHINO HILLS — Another year, another Southern Section championship game for the Buena High girls’ basketball team.

The Bulldogs routed Chino, 59-34, in front of about 1,200 on Tuesday night at Ayala High in a Division I-A semifinal game and secured their sixth consecutive trip the championship game.

Buena (23-2) will meet the winner of tonight’s game between Mater Dei and Fountain Valley on Friday at the Pyramid in Long Beach.

As in every other playoff game this season, Buena took over early.

The Bulldogs led, 16-5, after one quarter, then opened it up to 29-12 at halftime before coasting to their 21st consecutive victory.

Much can be attributed to a tenacious defense which forced 21 turnovers and allowed the Cowgirls to make only 27% of their shots (11 of 40).

“Defensively, we were terrific,” said Coach Joe Vaughan, who has guided Buena to 11 title games in 21 seasons. “This is a great experience for the kids.”

Eight players scored for Buena. Sophomore center Nicole Greathouse had 13 points and 14 rebounds. She dominated the boards despite being the only Bulldog taller than 6 feet facing Chino’s front line of Jean Clark (6-1), Denise Jung (6-1) and Lisa Butler (6-0).

Buena’s Eboni Conley scored nine points and Kori Sebek added eight.

Rasheeda Clark had 13 for Chino (22-5), which had won 12 in a row.