Pacific Title Is Latest Triumph : Prep basketball: Inglewood continues to make winning look easy in crushing Cleveland, 97-60. The Sentinels are 9-1.

It was another typical showing for the Inglewood High basketball team Wednesday night against Cleveland in the championship of the Pacific Open tournament at Santa Monica College.

The Sentinels rolled to a 97-60 victory and won their second tournament title of the season.

Inglewood (9-1), which opened the season by winning the Pacific Shores tournament for the first time in more than a decade, has a four-game winning streak. The Sentinels’ loss was to Westchester.

And if Coach Patrick Roy is serious, the best is yet to come for Inglewood.

“I would grade the game as a C-plus, maybe B-minus effort for us,” Roy said about the Sentinels, whose closest tournament game was a 78-65 semifinal victory over Fairfax on Tuesday.

“It was just an average game. There are still some things we need to work on. By the time (Bay) League play rolls around, we should be a lot better.”

It was pretty hard to find fault with Inglewood’s play in the first half Wednesday. The only drama was if the Sentinels would score 100 points.

The Sentinels led, 29-5, after the first quarter and 54-18 at halftime.

Inglewood put the game away with a 21-0 first-half spurt and held the Cavaliers scoreless for nearly nine minutes to open a 30-5 lead a minute into the second quarter.

Cleveland (6-4) did not reach double figures until a field goal by Marcus Baldwin with 4 minutes 28 seconds left before halftime. By then, Inglewood had built a 41-10 lead.