Eagles win easily against Griffins, 49-0
The Christian Learning junior varsity boys basketball team coasted to an easy win, 49-0, against winless and still scoreless International in a game at Christian Learning Tuesday.
The Eagles unleashed a balanced scoring deluge against the undersized Griffins in which nine different players scored baskets. Pablo Oh, Nicolas Smith, Kenny Krestan, and Andre Larsen all had eight points. Damon Janzen had six, all scored late in the game.
The other players scoring were Trevor Reed and Calen Hwangbo, who both had four points; Jose Mercado and Haziel Martinez had two points each.
The score at halftime was 34-0.
The Christian Learning junior varsity boys basketball team coasted to an easy win, 49-0, against winless and still scoreless International in a game at Christian Learning Tuesday.
The Eagles unleashed a balanced scoring deluge against the undersized Griffins in which nine different players scored baskets. Pablo Oh, Nicolas Smith, Kenny Krestan, and Andre Larsen all had eight points. Damon Janzen had six, all scored late in the game.
The other players scoring were Trevor Reed and Calen Hwangbo, who both had four points; Jose Mercado and Haziel Martinez had two points each.
The score at halftime was 34-0.
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GOING FOR TWO -- Eagle Pablo Oh takes the ball to the bucket past Griffin defender San Jun Cho. Jonatan Muñoz, International
Jaguars are victorious over Knights, 35-21
The Cooperative junior varsity boys basketball team overcame early resistance by Cambridge, and went on to win 35-21 in a game played in the Jaguar gym Tuesday.
The Jaguars led only by a single point, 7-6, at the end of the first quarter. However, as the game progressed the Jaguars were able to bring to bear their advantage is size -- 4 out of five of the Jaguar starters were a head taller than he Knights guarding them, and the fifth match-up was even -- together with their more diversified attackto open an 18-11 lead by halftime, and they were not challenged in the second half.
Cambridge was almost totally dependent on its 7th grade phenomenon, Jose Ribera, who accounted for all 21 of the Knights' points. What is perhaps more remarkable about his performance was that Ribera appeared to be having a bad day. Both he and Cambridge's other offensive threat, Antonio Salvatierra, had trouble getting their shots to drop.
Often the ball hovered on the rim, then fell outward, rather than inward. Rivero failed to hit a three-pointer for the first time this year, though he tried several times. He has played in both varsity and junior varsity games.
And while no single Jaguar defender could stay with him on his slashing, sudden stop-and-go rushes toward the basket, the Jaguar zone defense capably collapsed on him most of the time before he could get all the way to the basket. Salvatierra and several other Knights incluidng 6th grader Andres Hurtado tried gamely to open a "second front" for the Cambridge offense, but ultimately without success.
Cooperative, meanwhile, was showing improved ball handling skills, working the ball around and opening opportunities for several different players to score. By the end several different Jaguars had scored, including several of the substitutes who came in toward the end of the game, and kept up the pressure on Cambridge at both ends of the court.
Andre Shin was the top Jaguar scorer, with 12 points. Milan Marinkovic had 8. Newcomer Nicolas Suarez scored seven points, including a three-pointer, and was a major physical presence on the court. Jonathan Pauker and Jorge Correa had four points each, while Ñuis Peredo and Tomas Prudencio each had a basket.
Jaguars are victorious over Knights, 35-21
The Cooperative junior varsity boys basketball team overcame early resistance by Cambridge, and went on to win 35-21 in a game played in the Jaguar gym Tuesday.
The Jaguars led only by a single point, 7-6, at the end of the first quarter. However, as the game progressed the Jaguars were able to bring to bear their advantage is size -- 4 out of five of the Jaguar starters were a head taller than he Knights guarding them, and the fifth match-up was even -- together with their more diversified attackto open an 18-11 lead by halftime, and they were not challenged in the second half.
Cambridge was almost totally dependent on its 7th grade phenomenon, Jose Ribera, who accounted for all 21 of the Knights' points. What is perhaps more remarkable about his performance was that Ribera appeared to be having a bad day. Both he and Cambridge's other offensive threat, Antonio Salvatierra, had trouble getting their shots to drop.
Often the ball hovered on the rim, then fell outward, rather than inward. Rivero failed to hit a three-pointer for the first time this year, though he tried several times. He has played in both varsity and junior varsity games.
And while no single Jaguar defender could stay with him on his slashing, sudden stop-and-go rushes toward the basket, the Jaguar zone defense capably collapsed on him most of the time before he could get all the way to the basket. Salvatierra and several other Knights incluidng 6th grader Andres Hurtado tried gamely to open a "second front" for the Cambridge offense, but ultimately without success.
Cooperative, meanwhile, was showing improved ball handling skills, working the ball around and opening opportunities for several different players to score. By the end several different Jaguars had scored, including several of the substitutes who came in toward the end of the game, and kept up the pressure on Cambridge at both ends of the court.
Andre Shin was the top Jaguar scorer, with 12 points. Milan Marinkovic had 8. Newcomer Nicolas Suarez scored seven points, including a three-pointer, and was a major physical presence on the court. Jonathan Pauker and Jorge Correa had four points each, while Ñuis Peredo and Tomas Prudencio each had a basket.
