Eagles pull away from Knights, win 24-15
The Christian Learning boys junior varsity basketball team found itself in a 10-10 deadlock with Cambridge with two minutes to go in the first half, but Eagles Pablo Oh and Andre Larsen scored baskets in rapid succession to open a 14-10 lead that was never challenged again.
The Eagles eventually won the game, played in their gym Tuesday, 24-15.
Knight seventh grade phenom Jose Ribera was the game's leading scorer, with 11 points.
However, the Eagles did a better job of harassing, blocking, hurrying, disrupting, and generally annoying Ribera than any other team has this season. This game marked his lowest point output in a junior varsity game, and the first time he has been held to fewer than 20 points.
The Christian Learning defense kept him out of the middle in the second half, and, except for one spectacular three-pointer near the end of the game, his longer shots were not dropping in for him as they have in other games.
Cambridge also got baskets from David Li Tan and Gustavo Denis.
Larsen, the Eagles' big center, finished with 10 points, and Oh tallied 6. Nicolas Smith and Kenny Krestan had four points each.
Jaguars are easy victors over Griffins, 26-2
The Cooperative junior varsity basketball team easily bested winless International, 26-2, in a game played at the Jaguars gym Tuesday.
The Jaguars led 16-0 at the half, and the outcome was never in doubt, but International put on its best defensive effort of the year, holding Cooperative to the lowest total achieved by any of its opponents.
Felipe Cuadros garnered International's two points with a pair of successful free throws.
Andre Shin paced the Jaguar offense with 10 points, followed by Milan Marikovic with 8, Oliver Ledermann with 4, Samuel Melgar and Luis Peredo with 2 points each.
