JV Boys Basketball

WORKING THE BALL -- Knight Andres Hurtado passing past Jaguar Samuel Melgar (12) Carlos Hugo Vaca, Cambridge College

Cooperative 18, Cambridge 15
Jaguars escape Knight ambush
By Alexander Nagel
Cambridge College
The Cooperative junior varsity boys basketball team allowed underdog Cambridge to get out in front at the half, but caught up with the upset-minded Knights in the third period and then pulled ahead to win, 18-15.
Cambridge's Jose Ribera opened the scoring Tuesday with a three-pointer that accounted for all of the home team's points in the first quarter. Cooperative answered with a field goal by Samuel Melgar and a free throw by Milan Marinkovic, and the score at the end of the quarter was tied 3-3.
Cambridge then went on something of a tear in the second quarter, outscoring the Jaguars 6-2 and building a 9-5 halftime lead.
Cooperative came back to tie the score at 10-10 at the end of the third period, then moved ahead in what was, relatively speaking, a wild fourth quarter in which the Jaguars outscored Cambridge 8-5.
Marinkovic was the big scorer for the Jaguars with ten points, six of them in the fourth quarter surge. Melgar, Oliver Lederman, Andre Shin and Jonathan Pauker had a field goal each.
Ribera finished with 13 points. Andres Hurtado also scored for the Knights.

SEEKING THE PATH -- Griffin tries to thread a way between Eagle defenders Damon Jansen (21) and Trevor Reed (13). Jonatan Muñoz, International

Christian Learning 42, International 10
Eagles overpower improving Griffins
The Christian Learning boys junior varsity basketball team, led by Andre Larsen's 20 points, had too much height and firepower for International, and won 42-10 in a game played at International Tuesday.
The little Eagles jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter, and while the Griffins were able to make things somewhat more respectable at the half when they trailed 26-7, they were consistently outscored by Christian Learning.
In particular, International had no way of stopping six-footer Larsen whose 20 points represented a high for the year. The Eagles spread the rest of their scoring among six other players. Damon Jansen tallied six. Nicolas Smith, Jesse Mann, and Pablo Oh posted four apiece. Trevor Reed and Carlos Sandoval had a field goal each.
However, Internationa continued to show steady improvment. This is a team that failed to score in its first three games, and represented the first time that the little Griffins have reached double digits.
They were led by seventh grader Ryotaro Saito, who tallied six points, including a successful three-point attempt. Joaquin Wray and Eric Takamaya each had a two-point field goal for the Griffins.