statefinals boys division 4

Tamalpais Red-Tailed Hawks 61, St. Bernard Vikings 60--Chrismen Oliver led Playa del Rey St. Bernard to what everyone thought was a win. . . except it wasn't. . . St. Bernard, a team with no one taller than 6'-4" had the game won until 0.03 showed on the clock. That was when Tamalpais center Jair Veldhuis (6'-10" Sr. C) tipped in a missed Tamalpais shot at the buzzer to give the Red-Tailed Hawks a 61-60 victory in one of the most dramatic finishes in state-final history.

Jeremy White of Tam took the off-balance 15-foot jumper from the baseline that Veldhuis put back for the game-winner from high above the rim. Veldhuis' basket provided Tamalapais (33-2) its only points of the final 3 minutes 15 seconds. Brandon Williams scored a game-high 25 points for St. Bernard (26-8). The Red-Tailed Hawks held the lead for much of the game before Geoffrey Hooker followed up a missed shot with eight seconds left to put the Vikings ahead by one. After a timeout, the 6-foot-10 Veldhuis rose above the pack to tip in Jeremy White's miss, and the buzzer sounded as the ball went through the net. Michael Tabb and Bryan Defares led Tamalpais, which won its first state title, with 17 points apiece, and Defares had game highs of 12 rebounds and eight assists. Brandon Williams had 25 points for St. Bernard. Chrismen Oliver finished with 19. Tamalpais controlled the first half, but a long 3-pointer by Brandon with two seconds left tied the game, 28-28, at the break, setting up a see-saw second half that culminated in Veldhuis' dramatic tip-in. The 6-foot-10 center's tap-in of Jeremy White's miss with 0.3 seconds remaining gave the Red-tailed Hawks the California Division IV state championship. Veldhuis' move stunned a St. Bernard team which had taken the lead a mere 10 seconds earlier on a gravity-defying, 3-foot, putback by Geoffrey Hooker.

The win capped the most electrifying of Tamalpais' 33 wins this year, and it was the most exciting win in State finals history in recent memory. On a couple of occasions, the Red-tailed Hawks seemed ready to blow past St. Bernard, but despite lacking a player taller than 6'-4" the Vikings simply wouldn't go away. Tamalpais held a 28-17 lead midway through the second quarter, only to see St. Bernard hit 11 straight points to tie the game going into halftime. The last three of the half came on a 26-foot bomb from Brandon Williams, the game's leading scorer, with 3.8 seconds left. Tamalpais forward Michael Tabb finished with 17 points and eight rebounds. The Red-tailed Hawks, ranked No. 1 by Cal-Hi Sports in Division IV, had managed to stretch the lead to 5, 57-52 with only five minutes to go, far from the dominating lead that most had predicted. Williams then hit a 3-pointer at the 3:35 mark, compounded by a foul for a four-point play, made it 57-56, St. Bernard. Point guard Bryan Defares who finished with 17 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, took an offensive rebound and sliced in to widen the gap to three, but St. Bernard point guard Chrismen Oliver who finished with 19 points softly floated in a tough 8-footer over Veldhuis with 1:17 on the clock. The next possession resulted in an airball by Defares, and the Vikings got their last possession. A

fter Tamalpais forced a Viking timeout, Williams threw up a desperate 3-pointer from the right corner. That's when Hooker made what would have otherwise been a miraculous, game-winning shot. But Tamalpais immediately inbounded the ball, and ith Defares bringing it up the court, looking for a quick shot, he got the ball in the left corner to White, and with two Vikings all over him, White spun to the baseline and threw up a jumper that was off from the moment it left his hand. But nobody boxed out Veldhuis, he tapped the ball in for the win. Veldhuis finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and four blocks. Michael Tabb and Bryan Defares led Tamalpais, which won its first-ever state title, with 17 points apiece, and Defares added a game-high 12 rebounds and a game-high eight assists.

Player	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OREB	DREB	TR	PF	TOT PTS	AST	TRN	BS	STS	MIN
Jeremy Cranon	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
Chrismen Oliver	8	9	3	3	0	0	0	2	2	0	19	3	3	0	1	28
Geoffrey Hooker	2	7	0	2	2	2	4	7	11	1	6	2	1	1	2	25
Darren Miles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
Ezunial Burts	0	2	0	0	1	2	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	7
Kirk Colby	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	2
Brandon Williams	8	16	4	7	5	5	1	0	1	2	25	1	4	1	0	32
Ronald Carter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
EJ Moore	0	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5
Kellen Haynie	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	2	1	0	0	0	9
Anthony Uzondo	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	9
Brandon Nunnalluy	2	9	0	0	2	4	3	4	7	1	6	0	0	0	0	23
Ikena Unaka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
Bernard McCrumby	0	7	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	17
Totals	21	56	7	13	11	15	13	17	30	10	60	9	11	2	3	160

Total FG	1st Half	9-31	29.0	2nd Half	12-25	48.0	Game	21-56	37.5
3PT FG	1st Half	4-8	50	2nd Half	3-5	60.0	Game	7-13	53.8
Free Throws	1st Half	6-6	100.0	2nd Half	5-9	55.6	Game	11-15	73.3

Player	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OREB	DREB	TR	PF	TOT PTS	AST	TRN	BS	STS	MIN
Amed Baporia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
Jason Kent	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
Marshall Payne	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
David Chan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Greg Smith	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	4	6	2	4	1	1	0	1	25
Michael Tabb	8	20	1	5	0	0	5	3	8	2	17	1	4	0	2	30
Quillan Spindler	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
Marq Wallace	1	5	0	3	1	2	1	1	2	2	3	0	1	0	0	18
Aaron Rubinstein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
Jeremy White	3	10	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	0	0	0	1	19
Bryan Defares	6	11	1	5	4	6	2	10	12	2	17	8	3	0	0	32
Ryan Scot	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	4
Jair Veldhuis	5	10	0	0	0	0	4	5	9	2	10	1	4	4	1	31
Jonah Wharton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	DNP
Totals	26	60	4	18	5	8	14	23	37	14	61	11	13	5	5	161

Total FG	1st Half	1-29	37.9	2nd Half	15-31	48.4	Game	26060	43.3
3PT FG	1st Half	2-10	20.0	2nd Half	2-8	25.0	Gmae	4-18	22.2
Free Throws	1st Half	4-6	66.7	2nd Half	1-2	50.0	Game	5-8	62.5

	SBV	TRTH		SBV	TRTH
Points off Turnovers	19	17	Total Rebounds	35	40
Second Effort Points	4	19	Team Rebounds	5	3
Points off Bench	3	10	Off Rebound%	36.1	45.2
Free throw Points	11	5	Def Rebound%	54.8	63.9
3pt Points	21	12	Total Rebound%	44.8	55.2
Points/Possession	0.75	0.70	Deadball Reb	0	2

St. Bernard Vikings	15	13	16	16	--60
Tamalpais Red Tailed Hawks	19	9	20	13	--61