SoCal High School & Prep Report

Beverly Hills Update: Hami Loses Again,
This Time To Birmingham--(December 13,1997)

Something major is up with Hamilton. They lost on Wednesday to Agoura pretty decisively and again on Thursday night, they lost to Birmingham by 26 points, 75-49. We'd really like to get a report on this game, since we didn't see it and we are therefore reduced to giving you just the scoring. Send it in folks.

For Birmingham top scorers were Hassankhall with 8 points and 8 assists, while Riley had 9 points and 7 steals. Stanley Fletcher had a game high 24 points and 7 assists as well, while Evans finished with 14 and 13 boards. Others scoring were Foster 10, Kopulsky 2, Gazarian 5 and Welden with 3.

For Hamilton, Felix Lang was limited to 11 points for the entire game while DeLoach had 16. Christopher had 11, Fricks had only 1, Lampkin 2, Shabazz and Foster finished with 4 each.

Birmingham trailed at the end of the quasrter 26-22, but pulled ahead in the second quarter, limiting Hamilton to just 3 points, while Birmingham had 10, and at the half the score was Birmingham 32, Hamilton 29. The third and fourth quarters, Hamilton was never in it, being outscored 24-11 in the third and 19-9 in the fourth. Birmingham's record improved to 3-1.

With this dismal scoring on the part of Hami, we suspect there may be a morale problem, and with the disciplinary problem with players showing up late to Thursday (although they said they had car trouble) it seems that Felix Lang is just in a funk. Maybe during the Christmas holiday vacation he can shake it and simply refocus. Time will tell.

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In other BH Tourney games:

Ventura lost to Hart 68 to 73, in a game which was JT Stotts of Hart score 33 points, Davidson 3, Adawiya 2, Neill 11, Whitmore 13, Eeldon 6, Hunt 4, and Pitzer 1. Ventura led early at the end of the first quarter by one point, 22-21, but gave up a four point lead to Hart, which outscored them 21-16 at the end of the half, 42-38. Ventura regained those four points though in the third quarter and the score was tied at the end of three with the score 55-55. In the fourth quarter, Hart just barely managed to hang on, and only outscored Ventura 18-13, to win by 5. High scoreres for Ventura were Ostic with 21, Robinson with 10, Jeff Staniland with 29, Pabst with 2, Cooper 2, and Weaver, 2.

Highland beat Buena by only two, 53-51 on the fine scoring of Bonner with 17, and Banks with 9. Other's leading the Highland scoring were Zamora with 3, Jimenez with 8, Grace with 5, Moser with 6, Haywoarth 2, and Camy with 1. For Buena the high scorers were Conaway 3, Wilde 0, Thompson with 6, Golden 2, Fay 19, Peter Brown 12 points and 11 boards. Finally Trian had 5, Blands 4 and Probasco. Highland's record improves to 3-3, while Buena drops to 2-4.

Finally, Culver City beat Canoga Park 67-58 Jammie Harris scored 17 points while only Belgarian reached double figures in scoring with 10. Castanade had 6, Harper 4, Aguirre 8, Sandoval 9, and Bell 4.

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