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FONTANA – The outcome was in doubt until the final buzzer sounded.

But there was no doubt who was going to get the ball for Summit’s girls basketball team with the outcome of the CIF-SS Division 1A first-round game on the line.

Junior forward Alondra Duncan put the finishing touch on a 38-point performance by hitting a pair of free throws with 4.5 seconds left, giving Summit an 82-81 victory over visiting El Dorado.

The SkyHawks (21-7) will be at third-seeded Huntington Beach for a second round game Saturday.

It took Duncan’s effort and 21 from freshman guard Laila Walker for Summit (21-7) to hold off El Dorado (16-10). The Golden Hawks had a powerful duo that Summit struggled to stop, with 6-foot-4 sophomore center Kennedy Lilly scoring 28 points inside and senior guard Brianna Aluya getting another 28, mostly on drives to the basket.

Aluya got the ball in the backcourt after Duncan’s two free throws with 4.5 seconds left and drove to the frontcourt, but was met by a trio of Summit defenders. She put up a shot from halfcourt that didn’t come close.

“I told ‘em that in the postseason, free throws are gonna win games,” said Summit coach Latrina Duncan, who is also Alondra Duncan’s mother.

Latrina Duncan said she knew what her team needed to do after Aluya broke an 80-80 tie by hitting one of two free throws with 10.4 seconds remaining.

“They weren’t stopping her, and she was getting to the free-throw line,” the coach said of Alondra, who drove into the lane and put up a shot that missed but drew the foul call.

She calmly sank both fouls shots, making her 17 for 20 from the line.

“She knocked ‘em both down,” the coach said, adding, “It’ll be a great ride home, to say the least.”

The SkyHawks, who won the Sunkist League title, used an 11-0 run in the second quarter to take a 30-19 lead, but couldn’t shake El Dorado.

El Dorado got 18 points from Lilly in the third quarter to pull within 60-56 heading into the final eight minutes, which saw five ties and four lead changes, including Duncan’s final free throws.

“Coming into this, I said defense always wins games, no matter who you’re playing coach Duncan said. “But I’m not gonna lie – their 6-4 player, we’ve got nobody who can do that. We knew she was gonna get her points. We were gonna try to stop 24 (Aluya). We had a plan to force her to her left, but then we gave her the whole left.”