Eagles dominate Knights 58-27
The Christian Learning boys varsity basketball team demolished any doubts sthat may have been lingering as to whether or not they are the dominant team in the League this year with a decisive 58-27 thrashing of second-place Cambridge.
The result, which will do nothing to quell speculation that the 2009 Eagles may also be the team of the century in the SCISL (and, who knows, maybe Bolivia), was never in doubt as the Eagles zipped out to an 8-0 lead.
Cambridge got back to within four at 8-4, but then the Eagles were off to the races, piling up a 16-5 advantage at the end of the quarter, and 31-12 at halftime.
The only suspense in the second half was whether the Eagles would hit 60 points, a target they only narrowly missed.
The Eagles passing game was nothing short of brilliant as they consistently penetrated a Cambridge defense that had been famous for shutting down that kind of attack.
The Eagle defense was just as intense, and was aided by the fact that none of Cambridge's vaunted outside shooters was having an "on" day.
The Knights salvaged some honor by outscoring the Eagles in the fourth quarter, 9-8. The Eagles by then were substituting freely (i.e., even more freely than usual). Still, one had to admire the artistry of Knight Daniel Kim as he launched a courageous one-man counter-attack with a sequence or athletic fast breaks in which he tallied six of those nine points.
But it was definitely too little, too late. Christian Learning had three players who scored in double-digits, and nine who scored. Tim Zimmerman led all scorers with 14 points. Paul Estes followed with 12, Danny Canaviri had ten, Andre Larsen eight, Kyle Swope seven; Andrew Burgin, Josh Mojica, and Richard Ling scored two each, and Nicolas Smith had one.
Kim was high man for Cambridge with nine points. Jose Ribera had seven, Fabricio Suberana six, and Tae Han Kook four.
In the mitigatung circumstances department, Lopez was playing with a high fever for Cambridge. Christian Learning was without the services of starting forward Jeff Stabler, who was out of the country.
Griffins easy victors over Jaguars, 41-14
The International boys varsity basketball game won its second victory of the year by beating Cooperative in the Jaguar gym Thursday.
Students of numerology will no doubt want to study the inversion pattern in the scores of International's pair of victories over the Jaguars. The Griffins won the first meeting between the two teams 31-13, and took this one 41-14. (Will the next score be 51-15?)
The Griffins moved out to a 9-2 lead in the first quarter, which became 15-2 at the end of the half. Both teams picked up the scoring pace in the second half, but International never let the Jaguars close the gap.
Internationl outscored Cooperative 15-6 in the third period, and 11-6 in the fourth period.
Griffin David Huang led all scorers with 19 points. Ernando Tesch and Mario Rohrman each had eight for the Griffins. Joaquin Castañedo, Nicolas Bedoya, and Jan Ivo Sochtig each had two points.
Nicolas Suarez led the Cooperative attack with eight points. Diego Morales, Andres Shin, and Jose Alfredo Abuawad had two points each for the Jaguars.
