The Cambridge boys junior varsity basketball team completed its second consecutive undefeated season with an overpowering 43-12 win over International in the International gym Tuesday afternoon.
The game confirmed a first-place finish for the Knights and a fourth-place finish for the Knights. The same two teams will meet again in the semifinals of the JV playoffs April 6.
The Knights zoomed ahead 18-2 in the opening quarter, and more or less cruised from there. Its two main players -- Jose Luis Rivera and Gabriel Alonso -- had been taken out of the game and sent to change clothes before halftime, when the Cambridge lead was 21-6.
Even without those two the Knight attack remained formidable, and Cambridge led 31-7 at the end of the third quarter. Both teams gave their younger players plenty of game time in the second half.
Cambridge's leading scorer was Andres Hurtado with 15 points. Alonso and Gustavo Roca each had eight, Jose Paniagua had six; Rivera, Percy Vidal and Santiago Hurtado each had two points.
Danny Hanley led the Griffin scorers with eight points. Jakob Holdversson and German Ferrario each had two points.
Eagle JV starts slowly, but comes on strong
The Christian Learning boys junior varsity basketball team took awhile to get itself on track, but ultimately emerged with a resounding 49-24 victory over Cooperative in the Jaguar gym Tuesday afternoon.
The game was closely contested at the beginning, and the Jaguars led 11-8 at the end of the first quarter, and were still ahead 12-10 well into the second quarter. However, by the middle of the second quarter the sparkplug of the Cooperative team, Josue Abuawad, had picked up his fourth personal foul, and was unable to be aggressive on defense. He had blocked several Eagle shots before getting into foul trouble.
Abuawad didn't pick up his fifth (and final) foul until there were only 30 seconds left in the game. He continued to score, but ceased to be a factor on defense.
The Eagles surged ahead, and led 25-16 at the half. They then broke things open in the third period, scoring 21 points to Cooperative's six, and taking a 47-22 lead. The two teams each added two points in the final quarter, in which Christian Learning rested its star, Cesar Flores.
Haziel Martinez was the leading scorer for Christian Learning with 23 points. Flores finished with 16. Josiah Canaviri had eight; Richard Enns and Regan Janzen had one each.
For Coorperative, Abuawad had 16 points, Giorgio Rodrigano had four; Rodrigo Adriazola and Jose Salvatierra had two points each.
