'SCUSE ME, BUB -- Knight Jose Luis Rivera pushes past Jaguar Tae Cho's attempted block en route to another score. Kelly Clark Boldt, Cambridge College
Cambridge defeats injury-plagued Jaguars
The Cambridge varsity basketball team had no problem defeating Cooperative 38-3 in their home gym Thursday.
Cambridge scored almost at will in the first half while Cooperative couldn't seem to buy a basket. The score was 17-0 at the end of the first quarter and 29-1 at the half. In the second half Cambridge sat down its starters and the game became basically a rerun of Tuesday's junior varsity game as both teams gave younger players time on the court. The score was 33-1 at the end of the third quarter.
Cooperative was without its leading scorer, Milan Marinkovic, who is sidelined with tendinitis. Nicolas Suarez, another starter, was unavailable for academic reasons, and Josue Abuawad, a junior varsity star who has been of help to the varsity lately, twisted his ankle in Tuesday's JV game and couldn't play Thursday.
Cambridge was missing no one, and the Knights were firing on all cylinders. They were able to overwhelm Cooperative on both offense and defense in the decisive opening quarters. About half of the Knights' points in the first half came on fast breaks following defensive steals on which the Knights did not miss.
Jose Luis Rivera was the leading scorer with 11 points. Fabricio Subirana had seven, Alvaro Lopez six, Tae Han Kook five, Cristian Salvatierra and Carlos Ferrufino four each, and Gabriel Alonso one.
For Cooperative Rodrigo Adriazola had two points, and Andres Shin one.
BOMBS AWAY -- Eagle Andre Larsen (18) fires a shot over Griffin defenders.
Jonatan Muñoz, International
Senior-less Eagles win big over Griffins
The Christian Learning varsity boys basketball team had no trouble dominating International in a game played at the Eagles gym Thursday. The final score was 63-15.
The Eagles started fast and were ahead 15-3 at the end of the first quarter, and 25-9 at the half.
The Eagle lead bulged to 38-12 at the end of the third quarter. The Eagles added 25 more points in the fourth quarter against a now exhausted Griffin team.
The Eagles were playing without their seniors -- Danny Canaviri, Paul Estes, Tim Zimmerman, Mark Salinas and Hans Larsen -- who were away on a class trip. It didn't seem to matter as the Eagles got strong games from underclassmen Jesse Hallock, Andre Larsen, Andrew Burgin, Caleb Hoover and Josh Hoover.
Hallock was the leading scorer for the Eagles with 20 points. Burgin had 17, Larsen 14, Caleb Hoover eight. Richard Ling and Josh Hoover had two points each.
For International, J. Velasco had seven points, F. Molina four. T. Suarez and F. Gonzalez had two points each.
Jenny Zimmerman of Christian Learning contributed to this report.
