CITY BOYS' BASKETBALL: SYLMAR RUNS OUT OF STEAM.Byline: Daily News Once Sylmar got over the long bus ride, Dorsey High's circa 1937 barnyard gym, and the Dons' frenzied fans, full-court press full-court press n. 1. Basketball An aggressive defensive strategy in which one or two players harass the ball handler in the backcourt while the rest of the team maintains a close man-to-man or zone defense. 2. and breakneck break·neck adj. 1. Dangerously fast: a breakneck pace. 2. Likely to cause an accident: a breakneck curve. speed, it was time to play the fourth quarter. What was left of the Spartans' energy at that point quickly dissipated, vanishing into the thick air inside the Dons' ancient gym, enabling Dorsey to go on one final run to take control in a 85-75 City Championship boys' basketball quarterfinal victory Wednesday over the visiting Spartans. ``We just couldn't get it going in the fourth quarter,'' Sylmar forward Louis Darby said. ``And they took advantage.'' The difference was a three-minute stretch in the final quarter, when the Dons of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. pushed a five-point lead to double digits Double Digits was a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Played from April 20, 1973 through May 18, 1973's show, it was played for a car and used small prizes. . By the time the Spartans regained their footing, it was too late. ``They hit a ton of shots in the fourth and we couldn't answer,'' Sylmar coach Bort Escoto. ``That was the game right there.'' Up until that point the Spartans (22-6) stayed close, using Darby (19 points), Jeff Morse (16) and Sam Harris Sam Harris may refer to:
Until the fourth quarter that is. ``That's when we let it get away,'' Escoto said. Eric Flowrnoy scored 24 points to lead the Dons (19-8) and LeBoise Gladden glad·den v. glad·dened, glad·den·ing, glad·dens v.tr. To make glad. See Synonyms at please. v.intr. Archaic To be glad. Verb 1. added 20. ``We've gotten to the point where we can come over here and compete with these teams,'' Escoto said. ``We've gotten over the hump in that regard. We don't have to worry about coming here and getting beat badly. We know we can play with them.'' Now they just have to do it the entire game. ``That's the next step,'' Escoto said. - Vincent Bonsignore In Invitational-bracket games: --Reseda 50, Chatsworth 47: With the score tied and 13 seconds remaining in the game, Reseda's Steve Lone stole an inbounds in·bounds adj. 1. Basketball Involving putting the ball into play by passing it from out of bounds to a teammate on the court. 2. Sports Within the designated boundaries. pass at half court and drove in for the game-winning layup in the quarterfinal victory. Lone stole the subsequent inbounds pass, got fouled and sank a free throw with two seconds left to seal the game for the host Regents (17-5). ``We were resilient on their home court and we kept coming back, but we didn't execute in the end and (Lone) made a great play,'' Chatsworth coach Christian Dunbar said. ``Both teams came ready to play and it turned out to be a great game down the stretch.'' Teammates Keena Estrada (12 points), Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. (10 points) and Sergei Lepaishinski (nine points) also contributed for Reseda. Bruce Neale scored 15 points and Cliff Delfosse and David Rebibo had 11 and 10 points, respectively, for the Chancellors (9-13). --Grant 94, Huntington Park 80: The Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. of Van Nuys outscored the host Spartans of Los Angeles 19-5 in the second overtime to win the second-round game. Gino Riney scored 27 points and had 12 assists and nine rebounds for Grant (17-10). Teammate Stefen Kaufman had a career-high 26 points and 12 rebounds, and Jeremy Scharf scored all of his 19 points in the second half and overtime. ``We played excellent defense for about three quarters and then we broke down defensively. We had to hang on for dear life to get into overtime,'' Grant coach Howard Levine said. ``We had to reach down in both of those overtime periods. ``Thankfully we got off to a quick start, switched our defense and slowed them down.'' |
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