CANYON TOURNAMEMT: ALL SYSTEMS GO FOR NELSEN IN CANYON'S VICTORY OVER A.V.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News Matt Nelsen always has the green light from his Canyon High teammates and first-year coach Chad Phillips to bomb away. It was especially so for the senior guard in the Cowboys' 70-63 victory over Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley in the Canyon tournament on Wednesday night. Nelsen scored 22 points, including 18 in the second half after 6-5 senior center Brian Waite left the game with a sprained right ankle in the third quarter of the pool-play game. ``He finally got confidence in his shot,'' junior guard Chad Eichten said about Nelsen. ``He is our shooter, so we keep on telling him to keep on shooting. If he goes 0 for 20, we'll keep telling him to shoot.'' Nelsen made 9 of 14 shots and 4 of 6 from 3-point range. He was only 2 of 5 in the first half but 7 of 9 after halftime to propel the Cowboys into championship pool play against Valencia at 7 p.m. Friday. Canyon (5-1) was ahead 39-30 when Waite (10 points) injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. his ankle after going up for a rebound with 3:45 left in the third quarter. Waite, who was limping badly after the game, is questionable for the rest of the nine-team tournament, which runs through Saturday. With Waite on the bench icing his ankle, Nelsen made a quick basket and a 3-point shot to spur a 7-2 spurt spurt Vox populi A surge or abrupt ↑ in the size or speed of a thing. See Fat spurt, Growth spurt. that gave the Cowboys their biggest lead, 14 points, at 46-32, with 2:28 left in the third quarter. ``Brian is our guy we go to, and we needed to concentrate to get the open shots,'' Nelsen said. ``We started running the floor better and getting more breakaway break·a·way adj. 1. Designed to break, bend, or fall apart easily upon impact, especially to create an illusion, as with a theater prop, or for safety, as with a highway sign or barrier. 2. layups.'' Antelope Valley (3-3), led by 20 points from Steve Wilkins and 13 from Ollie Ollie may refer to the following:
Eichten (14 points) converted a 3-point play with 1:31 left and Jeremy Haggerty (12 points) added a free throw with 1:12 left to make it 70-62. In other pool-play games: --Notre Dame 62, Granada Hills 38: Six-foot-4 guard Cody Pearson scored 23 points, making 9 of 17 shots, and added 14 rebounds and four assists to power the Knights (2-0) into the championship pool play against Valencia at 7 tonight. David Hungerford added nine points and 12 rebounds and Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution Hennessey scored 10 to help the Knights race to a 15-point lead at halftime. Granada Hills (2-4) scored the first six points of the second half to climb within nine, 31-22. The Knights responded with 17 of the final 20 points of the third quarter. --Monroe 62, Alemany 52: Victor Hines had 16 points and William Savala and Anthony Buccat scored 15 and 12 points, respectively, to boost Monroe (1-5) to its first victory. Monroe will face Quartz Hill in fourth-place pool play at 5:30 p.m. today. Gabriel Zamora Gabriel Zamora is a Mexican municipality located in the center of the state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 426.98 square kilometres (0.72% of the surface of the state)[1] had a game-high 20 points for Alemany (0-2), which had only four players score. Evan Cline cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. and Ian Edwards Ian Edwards is a stand up comedian. He has appeared on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Live at Gotham, and HBO's Bad Boys of Comedy. He can be seen weekly at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. On August 1, Gilbert Arenas used one of Edwards' jokes on his popular blog. had 14 and 12 points, respectively, for the Indians, who play Granada Hills in the fifth-place bracket at 4 p.m. |
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