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Nike Dream Classic: Casey Jacobsen
Lights Up Capo For 47 Points--(Jan. 18, 1999)

What can you say about a game in which one player scores only 5 fewer points than the entire opposing team?  Well, you might say it was boring, or repetitive, or lopsided, but then you'd be wrong.  This was a great game. Exciting offense, good defense, two good teams, but one truly dominating player.

This one started out close, and quickly got away from Capo.   At the end of the first quarter, the score was Glendora 21-15 over Capo Valley.   While he didn't do it too often, he did it often enough Chris Clark got a few people excited with the change of pace scoring, and actually, he was the only other Glendora player to score in the first half. He made his signature move a couple of times, and it was effective: Spot up at the left and then come off a screen to shoot from near the arc.  But the real story was Casey Jacobsen who personally dominated the scoring with 37 first half points.  37 points.  That's not a typo.  Thirty-seven first half points. The score at the end of the half was 43-32, and Casey had 37 of those 43.  He hit from inside, from outside, and most of all coming off screens. The man was in a zone, and he was just getting ready for next year, when he'll try to do the same thing to UCLA when Stanford rolls into Pauley Pavilion.  We counted and from where we were sitting, it didn't look like Casey missed a shot.

Bruce Hatch at least gave the crowd a change of pace in the second half, as he hit the first basket of the third quarter, but then it was Jacobsen again, and with only one minute gone in the third, he had point No. 38 and 39. At the end of the third, the score was 53-38, a fairly unproductive quarter by these two teams' standards. Jacobsen was getting a bit frustrated, especially at the quality of the refereeing, which wasn't the best we've seen all day.  There were a couple of fairly violent no-calls, and Casey was getting banged up very badly.

J.J. Sola was actually the lone bright spot for Capo in this one.  He got a couple of steals, and on one early in the fourth, he trotted down the floor, baiting the defender to foul him, and it worked. He was also one of the only real perimeter shooters, and J.J. will have a pretty decent career at LMU next season we're predicting.

In this one, there was one stat that counted, and it was Glendora 66, Capo 48. And Casey Jacobsen had 43 of those 66 points.  We were joking with coach LeDuc just before the second half, that he should let someone else score, and he laughed and said, "Why?"  And frankly, we can't question his judgment on that one because Casey was just a machine, and when something's working why mess with it.

The final scoring looked like this:  For Capo Valley, Pace had 2, J.J. Sola had 19, Mike Stowell had 10, Nate Hair had 11, McDaniel had 6 and Cangelosi had 2.  For Glendora, Chris Clark had 14, Chad Clark had 2, Davis had 3, Bruce Hatch had 4, and Casey Jacobsen had 43. 

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