By Ximena Fagan
The basketball season is now finishing its second week, and the first match between the Cooperative girls varsity basketball team and Cambridge started out as a tight game with both teams putting all their effort into but the Jaguars broke the game open in the second quarter and went on to win 51-18.
The Jaguars were playing at home and had the benefit of support from their fans who were fired up by an end of school pep rally. The win kept alive their two-season-plus winning streak, and sets up a match next week with the only other undefeated team in the League Christian Learning, which also has a record of 2-0.
During the first quarter the game was tough and close, ending 6-5 with SCCS winning by one point. It stayed that way through much of he second quarter with lots of energy and concentration from both teams, but the Jaguars surged in the final minutes of the half to take an 18-9 lead. .
SCCS took a major lead during the third quarter. It seemed as if the tough Knights began to get tired, and they needed a bigger crowd to cheer them on. Tania Landivar and Sofia Sotelo were able to show their skills off in this quarter, leading the Jaguars to a commanding 32-12 score at the end of the third quarter.
The one player that was a non-stop scorer throughout the game was Carla Limpias, and she took the game to a new level during the fourth quarter making great use of her skills and height. Cambridge's six points in the final quarter came on artfully executed shots by ninth grader Make Ueno, but the game ended with a 51-18 score in favor of the Jaguars.
For the Jaguars, Limpias scored 20 points, Sofia Sotelo 13, Ana Peredo 12, Tania Landivar four. and Giovanna Varalta two.
For Cambridge, Ueno had six points; Nicole Fermin and Macarena Torrez scored five, and Josie Rodriguez two.
Eagles' big fourth quarter ends Griffin hopes
The Christian Learning girls Varsity basketball team defeated International Thursday at the International gym 32-8, scoring twelve of its points in the fourth quarter.
The Griffins started off their scoring with as three-pointer by Carolina Baldivieso. But Christian Learning responded with two baskets by Rebekah Kienlzle and one by Javiera Alipaz, and had the score tied 6-6 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter The Eagles moved into the lead, and junior Abby Phillips began to find the range, sinking three baskets for six points, and, as it turned out she was just getting wormed up. At the half the Eagles were ahead 15-8-
The pace eased in the third quarter, and the Griffins were actually able to shave a point off the Eagle lead, which was now 20-14.
But any chance the Griffins might have had of coming from behind to win the game were dashed when the Eagles took off on a scoring roll in the fourth period, with Phillips leading the way. The blonde junior forward scored ten of the Eagles twelve points .while Naomi Canaviri added the other two, and when the smoke cleared the Eagles owned a 14-point win.
The Eagles will play Cooperative, the other undefeated team in the League .next Thursday in their home gym, where they will have the considerable benefit of a vociferous home crowd. The Eagles were the only team to give Cooperative a run for its money, and they did it twice, both times in their home gym-
(Michelle Paz of International contributed to this article.)
