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SoCal High School & Prep Report

LA Baptist Tournament: Good God,
Yet Another Tournament--(January 3, 1998)

One last tournament before the season starts. Ok. Here we go. This one has been played at LA Baptist High, started on New Year's Eve, Wednesday December 31, and continued play on Friday January 2, 1998 with the semifinals, and the finals were scheduled for today, Saturday, January 3, 1998. The tournament featured both boys and girls brackets. You know which we're going to focus on. Maybe the girls will get their due later in the year, but there's just too much stuff for us to cover both right now. And we do apologize. Really. Especially to BT Express. Really, we promise we'll cover your girls later this year, hopefully when they're going to the State Division III Championship. But in the meantime, here are the boys' results

First Day: Wednesday, December 31, 1997

Alemany 67, Carpinteria 66:

Alemany, who many pick to finish at or near the bottom of the Mission League this year (against such perennial contenders Chaminade, Harvard-Westlake, Crespi, Notre Dame, and Loyola--not to mention co-bottom dweller St. Francis) won it's first game on two three point shots by Joe Casio in the final minutes. His first came with about 2:30 left to play, and when Alemany was down, 62-61, and put them up by two, 64-62. But then Carpinteria came back with four straight points to bring the score to 66-64 Carpinteria and the score stayed that way until the last 25 seconds of the game, when Casio hit his second three, to give Alemany the go-ahead score. Alemany's top scorer was Alejadra Valasquez with 16 points. Others scoring for Alemany included four players each with 8 points (Dogan, Casio, Murray, and Lowe), Addcox with 7, Yuhico with 5, Swaney with 3, and Levis and Rosedall with 2 points each. The high scorer for Carpinteria was Barbieri with 23 points.

LA Baptist 104, St. Genevieve 54:

This was a wipeout from the very beginning, and LA Baptist just overwhelmed St.G, outscoring them 36-11 in the first quarter, 23-12 in the second, 25-20 in the third, and 20-11 in the fourth quarter. Senior guard Fank Vasquez played on the two quarters but finished with 29 points, hitting seven three pointers for the host Knights, who improved to 4-5 with the win. Vasquez had 19 of Baptist's 23 first quarter points. Andrew Norris added 11. In fact, the entire LA Baptist bench scored in this rout: Tolle with 2, Regenstreif with 7, Bloomfield with 7, Chang with 2, Sanders with 5, Ellis with 4, Frazier 6, Chapell had 6, Bauer 9, Acuna 3, and Lopez 9. The high scorer for St. Genevieve was Manuel Ileto with 16. St. Genevieve fell to 3-5.

Fillmore 65, Paraclete 56:

Chuy Jasso had 17 points and reserve guard Ruben Gutierrez score all of his 16 points in the second half as Fillmore hammered out the win, improving their season record to 10-3. Dago Pantojo of Fillmore also scored 12 points, all on three pointers. The two teams played evenly through the first quarter, tied at 14-14, but then Fillmore just shut Paraclete down in the second quarter, outscoring them 16-4. That run was the difference in the game, as Paraclete managed to win the third quarter scoring 21-17, and lost the fourth by only 1 point, 18-17. Paraclete was led by Eppink with 15, Cich with 13, and Brown with 12. Unfortunately for Paraclete, the loss kept them winless on the season at 0-7. Fillmore improved to 10-3 on the year.

Brentwood 62, St. Bonaventure 51:

This was another game that started out fairly even with St.B up by 3 at the end of the first quarter. But the St. Bonaventure Seraphs were outscored 20-7 in the second quarter and never recovered, dropping their record to 7-4 on the year. For Brentwood, Shane Ingraham scored 11 points. St. B was led by Pat Devericks with 18 points, while Brndon Duplessie added 14 and David Chaparro had 13.

Second Day: Friday, January 2, 1997

LA Baptist 58, Alemany 55:

After struggling from the line in the first half, L.A. Baptist High made six consecutive free throws in the final 1:26 to hold off Alemany, 58-55, Friday night and reach the championship game, which will be played Saturday. We'll have the results tomorrow. Center Evan Regenstreif hit two free throws and guard Andrew Bloomfield made four free throws for L.A. Baptist's final six points. Regenstreif finished with 14 points and 11 rebounds. The Knights made just two of 10 free throws in the first half, but converted eight of 10 in the fourth quarter. Alemany, which dropped to 6-5 on the year, missed all six of its free throws in the fourth quarter. Alejandro Velasquez scored 22 points for the Indians. Guard Frank Vasquez scored 16 points for L.A. Baptist, which improved its record for the year to 5-5. The Knights led, 32-31, at halftime, shooting a blistering 63% from the field, but cooled off considerably in the second half, making only seven of 26 field-goal attempts. Alemany converted 14 of 26 field goals for 53% in the first half, and but shot just 43% for the game. Alemany's leading scorers, besides Velasquez were Joe Casio who finished with 10 points, while Murray had 6. Others were Levis with 2, Rosdell with 2, Lowe with 6, Yuhico with 2, Swaney with 3, and Dogan with 3.

Brentwood 62, Fillmore 59:

Forward Maro Galvez made four three-point baskets in the second half, but missed two in the final seconds and the Flashes lost in the semifinals. Galvez finished with 25 points and Jesus Jasso added 20. Fillmore (10-4) made 52% of its shots in the first half, but made only 39% after halftime. Center Sidney Miller had 19 points and 10 rebounds, all in the second half, for Brentwood, which improved to 9-2. Fillmore's Jesus Jasso scored 20 points. Fillmore plays for third place today at 3 p.m. against Alemany. Brentwood will play LA Baptist for the Championship at 8:30 Saturday. We'll have the results tomorrow.

Paraclete 55, St. Bonaventure 49:

In one of the Consolaltion semifinals, Michael Emard scored 11 points and Patrick Devericks added 10 points but the Seraphs did not score in the final three minutes and lost a consolation game. St. Bonaventure held a 49-44 lead before Paraclete scored the last 11 points. David Chaparro had seven points, eight steals and six assists for the Seraphs.

Carpinteria 74, St. Genevieve 47:

In the other Consolation Semifinal, the St. Genevieve Valiants were out of it early, trailing by 17 points at halftime, 41-24, being outscored 14-8 in the first quarter, and 27-16 in the second quarter. It only got worse in the second half, as Carpinteria cruised to the win. For Carpinteria, Redfield scored 17, Barbieri had 15, and Scott had 12. Mark Padiillo scored 13 points for St. Genevieve which dropped to 3-6.

We'll have the finals tomorrow. And we might even write up something on the girls teams. Maybe.