JV Track

Mini-Olympics 2012 Girls Results

Long Jump	School	Record	Place
Paula Sakuma	SCCS	3.66 m	1st  Place
Irene Vallet	SCCS	3.41 m	2nd  Place
Mariana de Brito	SCIS	3.22 m	3rd  Place
Discus	School	Record	Place
Andrea Chavez	SCCS	18.63 m	1st  Place
Maureen Harrison	SCCS	17.55 m	2nd  Place
Emily Ordoñez	CLC	13.41 m	3rd  Place
Ball Throwing	School	Record	Place
Andrea Chavez	SCCS	33.53 m	1st  Place
Isabella Peña	SCCS	29.09 m	2nd  Place
Emily Ordoñez	CLC	26.47 m	3rd  Place
60 m Dash	School	Record	Place
Paula Sakuma	SCCS	08’09	1st  Place
Manuela Reyes	SCIS	08’37	2nd  Place
Francesca Collanzi	SCCS	08’62	3rd  Place
200 m Dash	School	Record	Place
Francesca Colanzi	SCCS	33’30	1st  Place
Anahi Ibañez	SCIS	34’16	2nd  Place
Belen Lizzo	SCIS	35’13	3rd  Place
800 m Dash	School	Record	Place
Valentina Chajin	SCCS	3’02	1st  Place
Tamara Pereyra	SCCS	3’05	2nd  Place
Emily Ordoñez	CLC	3’15	3rd  Place
4x100 Relay	School	Record	Place
Sofia de Avila	SCIS	2’21	1st Place
Manuela Reyes
Belen Lizzo
Anahi Ibañez
Valentina Lirigin	CC	2’40	2nd Place
Paula Puente
Martina Valcarset
Carolina Rea
			3rd Place

Mini-Olympics 2012 Boys Results

Long Jump	School	Record	Place
Gabriel Romero	SCCS	4.71 m	1st  Place
Luke Phillips	CLC	4.26 m	2nd  Place
Ian Peña	SCCS	4.03 m	3rd  Place
Discus	School	Record	Place
Rodrigo Chavez	SCCS	25.18 m	1st  Place
Luis Peredo	SCCS	23.44 m	2nd  Place
Regan Janzen	CLC	17.09 m	3rd  Place
Ball Throwing	School	Record	Place
Rodrigo Chavez	SCCS	47.4  m	1st  Place
Matias Breede	CLC	38.56 m	2nd  Place
Ian Peña	SCCS	38.24 m	3rd  Place
60 m Dash	School	Record	Place
Gabriel Romero	SCCS	7’24	1st  Place
Percy Vidal	CC	7’57	2nd  Place
Ian Peña	SCCS	7’90	3rd  Place
200 m Dash	School	Record	Place
Gabriel Romero	SCCS	28’23	1st  Place
Percy Vidal	CC	28’45	2nd  Place
Horacio Morales	CC	28’80	3rd  Place
800 m Dash	School	Record	Place
Thomas Ward	SCCS	2’39	1st  Place
Mariano Alvarez	SCIS	2’54	2nd  Place
Sebastian Guardia	CC	3’00	3rd  Place
4x100 Relay	School	Record	Place
Sebastian Guardia	CC	2’02	1st Place
Horacio Morales
Percy Vidal
Masayoshi Ueno
Leonardo Gianotti	SCCS	2’03	2nd Place
Thomas Ward
Raul Valle
Sebastian Sanchez
Alexandro Fontelsa	SCIS	2’15	3rd Place
Mariano Alvarez
Leonardo Melgar
Juan Nuñez

SCOREBOARD for Thursday, March 8

Varsity Boys Basketball

Christian Learning 54, Cooperative 11 
Cambridge 47, International 0 (flood-shortened) 


Varsity Girls Basketball

Cooperative 35, Christian Learning 20
Cambridge 24, International 8

Boys Varsity Basketball

Eagles destroy Marinkovic-less Jaguars

By Sergio Gonzales

      The Christian Learning boys varsity basketball team administered a thorough drubbing to Cooperative Thursday in the Eagles home gym, winning 51-11 in a game that was never close.

      The game started out during the warm-ups with an air of anticipation because it was expected to be a head-to-head clash between two big centers – Eagle Andre Larsen and Jaguar Milan Marinkovic. The teams huddled and an array of eager hands slapped each other tentatively, then the teams began practicing, each side curiously searching out the tallest, strongest, most limber specimens on the other team.

      

       Gradually the realization spread among the players and spectators that Marinkovic was not present, and word spread rapidly that he had hurt his knee while practicing for next week’s track meet.  Expectations were lowered.   

       

        The first quarter started slowly for both teams as they shook off the pre-game stress, and ended 8-2 in favor of the Eagles. Things sped up in the second quarter as Eagle Cesar Flores showed his ability to swiftly dribble down the court and aggressively sneak through the nooks and crannies of the Jaguar defense, enabling him to score several quick baskets.

      

       Jaguar Andres Shin   also proved his worth. Skillfully catching rebounds, dribbling artistically, and providing a chunky defensive barrier to attempted Eagle drives. But the Eagles continued to do a better job of getting the ball in the hoop, and led 27-6 at the conclusion of the second quarter.

       

       Without a doubt the most notable player on the court was Larsen. After a slow start in the first quarter, he gained in confidence during the second, and throughout the rest of the game.

       

       Larsen's movements were often contained within a multi-player flutter of arms beneath the basket, all glistening with fresh sweat, seeking to fly upward to grab a rebound.   Time after time the longest and largest belonged to Mr. Larsen. His easy and flow through the court, masterful execution of the backboard layup,  and fearless   panache in longer distance shots, easily made him the game's most valuable player.

      The third quarter saw the absolute death of the Jaguar hopes, as Christian Learning rolled up the points, moving out to a 30-point lead.  Nevertheless, Jaguar coach Gregory Johnson urged his players to fight on, and they responded by putting up a strong, pressing opposition the whole way, showing their persistence and good sportsmanship. But they could not find a scoring combination

       Another interesting characteristic on the Jaguars side was the JV player by the name of Raul Valle, a sixth grader of amazing build and height. Although he wasn't in the game for long because of a leg injury, he made his presence felt. The Jaguars had two other JV players on the court for most of the game, eighth graders Eduardo Ustares and Luis Peredo, possibly boding well for future Jaguar teams.

      

      Christian Learning Coach Keith Wilcke gave his benchwarmers some time on the floor in the closing minutes, without damaging his team’s lead. The final score was 59-11.

      

       Larsen led all scorers with 16 points. Haziel Martinez had 12 for the Eagles; Flores 6; Josiah Canaviri 5; Gooho Kahng four; and two points each for Trevor Reed, Nathan Brown, Luke Phillips, and Wesley Ordoñez.

     For the Jaguars, Shin tallied eight points, and Gustavo Rodrigo three.


     (Sergio Gonzales is a senior at Christian Learning.) 


Before the flood, a torrent of Knight baskets

By Santiago Melgar

       The Cambridge boys basketball team swamped International 47-0 Thursday in a game that lasted only about two and a half quarters before a flash flood swept through the Knights gym putting a merciful end to the game.

      The Knights got off to an amazing start, apparently able to score at will either through its big center, Luis Mercado, or  sophomore Gustavo Roca, with several other players chipping in. By the time Mercado slammed home the last basket of the first quarter, Cambridge had a 25-0 lead.  

  

      With that good start, the Knights kept coming on strong in the second quarter, not letting the Griffins match them on offense, and constantly challenging the International defense to catch them if they could. Juan Carlos Paniagua made a beautiful shot in the closing seconds of the first half to put the score up to 46-0.

      Then it started to rain. And rain, And rain. 

      Play began in the third quarter, and junior Celso Moscoso sank a foul shot to make it 47-0 for the Knights. But soon there were several inches of water on the gym floor, and play – unless the teams wanted to make the game a water polo match – became unfeasible. With 6:48 showing on the clock in the third quarter, the referees stopped the game.

      Initially there was some thought of waiting for the skies to clear, but water began to flood in from the adjacent parking lot and it became clear that the game was a washout, both technically and figuratively. Within a few minutes the water in Hamacas Boulevard in front of the school was knee-high, with a strong current heading north. A big crowd of students from both schools crowded the entryway waiting for transportation, and then making a drenching dash through the rain to reach refuge.

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      And thus ended one of the strangest games in SCISL history. For those who may need help with their addition facts, if the scoring had continued at the same rate in a dry gym (an admittedly unlikely event), Cambridge would have won 94-0.

      For the Knight, Roca had 20 points, Mercado ten, Paniagua 8, Andes Hurtado five, Gabriel Alonso (playing his first game after being sidelined with an injury) had two, Paul Blades and Moscoso had one each.      


      (Santiago Melgar is a ninth-grader at Cambridge College. Cambridge Managing Editor Laura Guillen also participated in the preparation of this report.)

Girls Varsity Basketball

Jaguars Dominate Eagles 35–20

By Jesse Mann

   With clear advantages in height, speed, and attitude,  the Jaguar varsity girls basketball team  scored an impressive 35-20 victory against the Eagles Thursday.

    They did this despite the absence of Sofia Sotelo, their legendary scoring machine, who was in La Paz getting a visa to attend a meeting of scholarship winners at Northeastern University, and Giovanna Varalta, their other starting guard, who was stuck in the hospital with a stomach infection,

       Sofia and Giovanna would have been quite proud to see their teammates carry on in their absence  as if they were there, sweeping away the Eagles with a superb display of passing precision and shooting accuracy. Ana Peredo, Giuliana Varalta, Tania Landivar, Carla Limpias, and Jessica Maureia combined good teamwork with towering height to outshoot, outdistance, and out-dribble the Eagles. They were the oinly five players dressed fort he game, so there was no room for errors. 

         By the end of the first half the Jaguars had a stunning 17 – 2 lead.

        The Eagles came to life in the third quarter, and tried desperately to make up for lost time. In fact they , actually played the Jaguars evenly through the second half. However, the Jaguar's lead proved unerasable, and the intimidating figure of Ana Peredo underneath the basket put an end to many apparent Eagle scoring opportunities.

       Despite their many obstacles, the Eagles, led by the indomitable Abby Phillips, resisted bitterly to the last. Towards the end of the fourth quarter several baskets by Dahye Chun and Rebekah Kienzle brought the Jaguar lead back to the 15 points it had been at halftime.

        But the clock ran out on them, and when the buzzer sounded, the Jaguars had cemented their first-place position in the rankings with a fantastic 35–20 victory. The game was played on the Eagles court.
   
        Peredo was the leading scorer for the Jaguars, and in the game, with 14 points- Giuliana Varalta scored seven; Carla Limpias and Tania Landivar had six points each, and Maureira had two.


        Foor the Eagles, Phillips had six points. Chun, Kienzle, and Javiera Alipaz each had four; and Samia Dajbura had two.  
       
       (Jesse Mann is a senior at Christian Learning Center and managing editor of the SCISL website.)

Knight girls win 24-8 in rough contest

By Adriana Guzman

      The Varsity Girls Basketball game played by Cambridge and International Thursday afternoon at Cambridge was won by  the Knights  24-8.

      

      The excitement of the game was definitely outstanding, Cambridge College’s fans were celebrating every single point they earned. It was very interesting how the Knights managed to score so many times even though both of the teams played aggressively, fighting for every single point. The play was rough and tough for both teams.

       The Griffins tried to defend themselves, but could not stop Knight Nicole Fermin, who had an excellent afternoon for the Knights, scoring 14 of the team’s points.

       On the other side, Fabiana Zelada was outstanding for the Griffins, scoring all eight of their points, all on foul shots. The Cambridge defense rarely permitted the Griffins to get off a clean  shot from the floor. Zelada’s attempts to drive toward the basket were often stopped,  but she did pick up foul shooting opportunities and made good on many of them.

      

      The game was very tough through the first half, at the end of which Cambridge led only 10-6. At one point Cambridge’s Amaya Yañez suffered a little injury to her nose.

       The game got very exciting for the Cambridge crowd  during the  third quarter in which the Knights outscored the Griffin eight to nothing. When it finished the score was 18-6.

       During the fourth period it was very notable that the Knights had the game won. Fermin added two more baskets, and  Josefina Rodriguez scored the Knight’s final basket, making the score 24 to 8.

      There was a bit of an argument  when the game was about to start over whether players had on proper uniforms. First the International coach complained that Fermin’s red shorts lacked the thin gray and black  stripes that the other Cambridge players had on their red shorts, and therefore couldn’t play.

      The Cambridge coach countered by noting that one of International’s players didn’t have the  small yellow stripe on her blue shorts that he teammates did, and that therefore International didn’t have enough players – the Griffins had only five players in uniform –and would have to forfeit.

      The referees initially agreed with Cambridge and signaled that International had forfeited.  However, after a half hour of argument, during which both players changed into proper shorts, the game finally got underway. League Commissioner Alvaro Ludueña was contacted by telephone and tried to calm everyone down, saying the stripe issue should not prevent the teams from playing.   

      (Adriana Guzman is a junior at Cambridge College.) 

Rescheduled Boys Varsity Basketball Game Result

Cooperative misses bus, forfeits

     The International boys varsity basketball team was declared the victor by forfeit over Cooperative Wednesday. Cooperative was delayed by the late arrival of the team bus and so did not have a team on  the floor by the required time. The game had originally been scheduled for February 23. Cooperative had requested a postponement because two many of its players were ill, injured, or travelling.      

SCOREBOARD for Tuesday, March 6

JV Boys Basketball

Christian Learning 20, Cooperative 18
Cambridge 40, International 13



JV Girls Basketball

Christian Learning 24, Cooperative 8
International 21. Cambridge 6

Girls JV Basketball

Cooperative vs. Christian Learning story to come 

Griffin JV girls dominate Knights, 21-6

By Adriana Guzman

      The International junior varsity girls basketball team picked up their first win of the season Tuesday with a 21-6 victory over Cambridge in the Knights gym.

       When the game started the Knights looked really comfortable playing as home for the first time this year, but the Griffins were also pretty excited about being the guests -- as well as about being able to win the match. The game was a “battle of the beatens.” Neither team had won this season.

         The two teams were fighting every single point they could earn. And the Knights looked to be quite in a hurry, but it was a bit obvious by the end of the first quarter that Griffins were dominating the match, with the score 7-2 in the visitors favor at the end of the quarter.

        The Knights couldn’t let this happen without a fight, and so they managed to improve the score to 8-4 at the end of the half.

        The game had quite a few mistakes by both teams, but the excitement of the players was amazing. They were willing to do whatever they could to win the game, but unfortunately for the Knights the more experienced Griffins began to take full control of the game in the third quarter, taking a 12-5 lead, which they increased to 18-6 by the of the third quarter.

        The Griffins added three more points in the fourth quarter, while holding the Knights scoreless, to make it 21-6. It was a big win for the Griffins. .  

       The outstanding players in this game were Maria Zelada of the Griffins, who scored seven points for her team, as well as Pamela Hernandez, who had five.  Anahi Ibañez, Mariana Roca, Camila Barrientos, Monserrat Hernandez,  and Olivia Navarro had two points each

       For the Knights, Renata Pinto had four points, and Sol Burgps had two.

       (Adriana Guzman is a junior at Cambridge College.)


Eagle JV Girls Stay Undefeated Against Jaguars, 24-8


By Trevor Reed


     The Christian Learning JV girls continued their undefeated season today with a convincing win over the previously undefeated Jaguars. Although this game was more evenly matched than the Eagles' previous two games, the Jaguars were still no match for the aggressive defense and fast-paced offense of the Eagles.

     Eagle player Maria Anderson scored the first 6 points for her team, and the Eagles never looked back. The Jaguars did have a few good moments, and they demonstrated good defense against Eagle breakaways. However, the game as a whole was diluted with poor passing from both teams. On the positive side, this also provided more steals for the two. The Eagles led 6-3 by the end of the first quarter, and 10-3 at the half.

     In the second half, both teams improved their passing and shooting, but the Eagles kept a very comfortable lead the entire time. Rebecca Escudero and Emily Ordoñez, from the Christian Learning Center, demonstrated superb passing and shooting, working together to transport the ball down the court many times together. The Eagles had stretched the score to 18-6 by the end of the third quarter. Ordoñez and Escudero continued to stand out with great pass blocking and impressive offense. The Jaguars scored one more basket in the final quarter, and the final score ended at 24-8.

(Trevor Reed is a senior at SCCLC and the editor-in-chief of the SCISL Blog.) 

Boys JV Basketball

Eagles Drive Jags into Overtime


By Javiera Alipaz

                With a final score of 20- 18, the Learning Center’s JV boys finished off an adrenaline-filled game on their home court Tuesday. With the Jaguars making three points in the first five minutes, two  baskets by Eduardo Ustares and one by Luis Peredo, the eagles were down 6-0.  With two and a half minutes left on the clock, the Eagles soared their way almost into a tie at the end of the first quarter, which ended at 5-6. In the second quarter, the Eagles managed another basket. The Jaguars however, could only credit themselves for one more point , and the first half ended tied at 7-7.

                Two and a half minutes into the third quarter, the score was still tied at 7-7. Eagle Luke Phillips then landed a basket, changing the score to 9-7. Micah Janzen, also an Eagle, took advantage of his two free throws moving the score up to 11-7.  Only 17 seconds later, Jaguar Rodrigo Chavez managed to make another free throw himself, settling the score at 11-8.

                After only 30 seconds of play in the fourth quarter, Phillips stomped his way into the basket once again. Three Jaguar baskets followed, and by the middle of the quarter, the excitement and tension were thick in the air. With only 5 minutes left, a time out was called, raising the anticipation. When only a minute and half was left the score was tied at 16-16 due to another Jaguar basket by Chavez and three points by Phillips. Thirty seconds were left on the clock and Jaguar Raul Valle made a basket, bringing the score to 18-16, with the Jaguars on top. Just when the fans in the Eagles’ famous cheering section thought that the game was over, Phillips tied the score at 18-18 with a swish with only 16 seconds left on the clock.

                Overtime started with Eagle Claudio Sandoval taking it in from the sidelines.  Eagle Regan Janzen was fouled 3 seconds into overtime. Janzen shot and landed the Eagles a free throw. With only one minute and fourteen seconds left, Phillips also managed to land a free throw for the Eagles, settling what would later be the final score of 20-18. 

(Javiera is a sophomore at SCCLC and a reporter for the SCISL Blog.)

Little Knights hammer Griffin JV. 40-13

       Paced by the double-digit point production of Massa Ueno and Santiago Hurtado, the Cambridge boys junior varsity retained its unbeaten status by defeating International 40-13 on the Knights  home court Tuesday.

       The Knights spurted to an 8-0 lead at the start of the game. International got baskets from Jaime Barrenechea and Alfonso Justinano just before the quarter ended to make the score somewhat more respectable at 10-4.

      The Knights basically put the game away in the second quarter in which they outscored the Griffins 13 to 1, and took a 23-5 halftime lead.

      The rest of the game was sort of an afterthought, as both teams gave all their players plenty of opportunity to play. The scoring was slower, but Cambridge continued to tally two points for each point the Griffins scored. The tally was 29-8 for Cambridge at the end of the third quarter, and 40 to 13 at the game’s end.

       For Cambridge, Hurtado tallied 18 points, and Ueno 15. Daniel Cortes scored four and Nando Boller three. Cambridge was playing without Percy Vidal who has been one of its top scorers. He was ill.   

       For International Jose Ojeda had eight, Jaime Barrenechea three and Alfonso Justiniano two.

     

       Cambridge is now 3-0 at the season’s halfway mark. and has not been seriously challenged. With two of its remaining three games at home, the Knights would appear to have a clear path ahead to the JV championship.   

Rescheduled Game

The Varsity boys basketball game between SCIS and SCCS has been rescheduled for this coming Wednesday, March 7th at 3:30 PM. The game will be played at SCIS. Show up and support your team!

BASKETBALL - WEEK 2

SCOREBOARD for Thursday March 1

Varsity Boys Basketball

Cooperative 42, Cambridge 40
Christian Learning 42, International 13 


Varsity Girls Basketball

Christian Learning 32, Internatonal 18
Cooperative 51, Cambridge 18

Boys Varsity Basketball

Last second basket boosts Jags over Knights

     A tap-in by senior center Milan Marinkovic in the closing seconds gave the Cooperative boys varsity basketball team a 42-40 victory over Cambridge in the Jaguar gym Thursday.

     The final score represented the first time that the Jaguars had been ahead in the entire game, but it was the right time. The game was regarded with awe by those who saw it. Experienced fans thought it the most exciting played in the League in years. "I wish I had filmed it," said one Jaguar player afterward.

     The Knights were playing without their big 9th grade center Luis Mercado, who had scored 25 points in Cambridge's decisive win over Christian Learning last week. According to teammates, Mercado was missing because he had to prepare for two big tests Friday. Under the circumstances, Cambridge may also have been guilty of taking Cooperative too lightly -- but for much of the game it looked like they would win anyway.

      Cambridge seemed to dominate the first half, at the end of which they owned an eleven point lead, 24-13.  At the start they had jumped out to a 10-2 lead paced by flashy drives by lunior Celso Moscoso and sophomore Andres Hurtado.

     Cooperative cut into the Cambridge advantage by scoring the first several baskets of the second half, and the Jaguar defense improved, leading to some easy baskets on fast breaks.  Looked at strategically, however, what Cambridge did was basically to maintain that early early eight-point lead lead -- widening it a little here, shortening it a little there -- until the final four minutes of the game when the Knights eight-point lead was suddenly slashed to two with six unanswered points by the Jaguars.

     Marinkovic, the tallest man on the court (and the League high jump record holder) was now taking full charge of the Jaguar offense.Earlier in the game Cambridge had been able to keep the ball away from him, but now seemed to have it all the time.

      Twice in the second half he scored ten oints in a row, and he tallied ten of Cooperative's final twelve points, with senior Nicolas Suarez chipping in the penultimate basket.   Tickets could probably be sold to fans wanting to find out if he can do the same against Mercado when the two teams meet again three weeks from now at Cambridge.

      The Knights stopped the bleeding,  however, at two points, and got clutch baskets of their own from Juan Carlos Paniagua and Hurtado. With a minute to play they were holding a four-point lead, 40-36.

      That lead, however, was erased in the next thirty seconds or so by Marinkovic and Suarez, tying the score at 40-40.

      With the clock rapidly clicking off the final seconds Cambridge tried to bring the ball downcourt and work for the final shot of the game, but Jaguar Josue Abuawad stole the ball and the Jaguars were once again on the attack.  A long set shot attempt kicked out to Marinkovic, who put it in  the hoop to give the Jaguars the victory.

        Marinkovic scored a total opf 32 points, 24 of them in the second half. His individual scoring total was probably a League record, though scribes are still scrambling through the resord books. Abuawad had four, Suarez, Andre Shin, and Giorgio Rodrigano had two points each.

        For Cambridge, Andre Hurtado was high man with ten. Juan Carlos Paniagua had nine; Celso Moscoso had seven, Massa Ueno and Gustavo Roca had six, and Santiago Hurtado two.

After slow start, Eagles demolish Griffins 42-13

      The Christian Learning boys varsity basketball team started slowly, but finished strong, in defeating International at the International gym Thursday 42-13.

     The game looked at first as if it would be a tight battle, with the first quarter ending with the score tied at 6 to 6. 

      Cesar Flores accounted for five of the Eagles points. He drove to the basket successfully twice, and was fouled on his first attempt, give him a chance to shoot a foul shot, which he did, completing a three-point play.  Haziel Martinez made a foul shot for the sixth point.

     International got four points by Sebastian Velasco, and two by Eric Takayama.      

     The Eagles began to take charge of the game in the second quarter. Martinez continued to have a hot hand, and Jose Aldana contributed four points as the Christian Learning team took a 16-9 lead at halftime.

      It was the Christian Learning defense that really put the Eagles in the driver’s seat, as they held the Griffins to a single point in the third period, while the Eagles scored ten, moving to a commanding g 26-10 lead that seemed the break the Griffins spirits.

       The Eagles continued to play eximious defense in the final quarter while also making their best offensive effort, scoring 16 points, as they cruised to a 42-18 win.

      For the Eagles, Flores tallied 15 points; Josiah Canaviri had 11, Jose Aldana 10; Haziel Martinez 4, and Sami Frith 2.

       For the Griffins, Sebastian Velasco had sever; Eric Takayama five (including a three-pointer), and German Ferraris one. 

Girls Varsity Basketball

Jaguars break loose for 51-18 win over Knights 

By Ximena Fagan 

    The basketball season is now finishing its second week, and the first match between the Cooperative girls varsity basketball team and Cambridge started out as a tight game with both teams putting all their effort into but the Jaguars broke the game open in the second quarter and went on to win 51-18. 

     

      The Jaguars were playing at home and had the benefit of support from their fans who were fired up by an end of school pep rally. The win kept alive their two-season-plus winning streak, and sets up a match next week with the only other undefeated team in the League Christian Learning, which also has a record of 2-0. 

     

      During the first quarter the game was tough and close, ending 6-5 with SCCS winning by one point. It stayed that way through much of he second quarter with lots of energy and concentration from both teams, but the Jaguars surged in the final minutes of the half to take an 18-9 lead. .

      SCCS took a major lead during the third quarter. It seemed as  if the tough Knights began to get tired, and they needed a bigger crowd to cheer them on. Tania Landivar and Sofia Sotelo were able to show their skills off in this quarter, leading the Jaguars to a commanding 32-12 score at the end of the third quarter.

      

        The one player that was a non-stop scorer throughout the game was Carla Limpias, and she took the game to a new level during the fourth quarter making great use of her skills and height. Cambridge's six points in the final quarter came on artfully executed shots by ninth grader Make Ueno, but the game ended with a 51-18 score in favor of the Jaguars. 

        For the Jaguars, Limpias scored 20 points,  Sofia Sotelo 13, Ana Peredo 12, Tania Landivar four. and Giovanna Varalta two.

        

       For Cambridge, Ueno had six points; Nicole Fermin and Macarena Torrez scored five, and Josie Rodriguez two. 

Eagles' big fourth quarter ends Griffin hopes 

The Christian Learning girls Varsity basketball team defeated International Thursday at the International gym 32-8, scoring twelve of its points in the fourth quarter.

     The Griffins started off their scoring with as three-pointer by Carolina Baldivieso. But Christian Learning responded with two baskets by Rebekah Kienlzle and one by Javiera Alipaz, and had the score tied 6-6 at the end of the first quarter.

     In the second quarter The Eagles moved into the lead, and junior Abby Phillips began to find the range, sinking three baskets for six points, and, as it turned out she was just getting wormed up. At the half the Eagles were ahead 15-8-

      The pace eased in the third quarter, and the Griffins were actually able to shave a point off the Eagle lead, which was now 20-14.

     

     But any chance the Griffins might have had of coming from behind to win the game were dashed when the Eagles took off on a scoring roll in the fourth period, with Phillips leading the way. The blonde junior forward scored ten of the Eagles twelve points .while Naomi Canaviri added the other two, and when the smoke cleared the Eagles owned a 14-point win.

     

      The Eagles will play Cooperative, the other undefeated team in the League .next Thursday in their home gym, where they will have the considerable benefit of a vociferous home crowd. The Eagles were the only team to give Cooperative a run for its money, and they did it twice, both times in their home gym-

      (Michelle Paz of International contributed to this article.)