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CIF-SS Boys V-A Championship Game:
Price Easily Downs AV Christian--(Mar. 2, 2001)

The LA Times today carried a recap of this game which stated: "Antelope Valley Christian was competitive with Price for the first half of their Southern Section Division V-A boys' basketball final. . . "     Er, um, ok.  Let us remind everyone though, and we don't mean to be unkind about this, but Price led by 10 at the end of the first quarter and then by 13 at the half.  And then everyone started humming that stupid song, "Who let the dogs out?"  The third quarter was the sort of nightmarish experience that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. . . well, ok, maybe your worst enemy.   Price pounded the Eagles, reminding them who was the defending State Champion by scoring 37 points while holding a younger, and far less experienced, smaller and outmatched AVC team to just 7 points.   By the end of the third quarter, Price had forced AVC into 27   turnovers and had stolen the ball 20 times. 

By the end of the third quarter, the score was 76-33, and many of us in attendance who had been daydreaming through that nightmarish quarter started to stir, shifted uneasily in our seats, and hoped that it was really the end of the fourth quarter and there would be no further carnage.   And, for the most part, Price did call off the dogs in the fourth, with Coach Michael Lynch taking out the starters (who by then were also starting to get a bit sloppy themselves, having committed 15 turnovers up to that point) and instead chose to play his younger players,  calling off the smothering and effective press. In the fourth quarter, Price only outscored AVC by 5 points (21-16) and allowed the runners-up something left to take into the State Regional tournament next week (both AVC and Price will compete in that tournament starting next week against the winners and runners up from San Diego and Central Section's D-V, along with both Kilpatrick and Calvary Chapel Downey from Southern Section's V-AA, who also both get automatic bids to the State Championship Tournament. 

The stats below pretty much tell the whole story of this game.  Honestly, there wasn't much else to tell, as the Knights (29-3) just absolutely walloped AVC (22-7) and they did it as one might anticipate the defending State D-V champions would, decisively and with emphasis. Price was led by Cal State Fullerton-signee Chris Alexander with 24 points, 3 assists and 3 steals, while Jermaine Jamerson and Andrew Howard also hit double figures with 10 and 12 points respectively. Howard had 6 steals in the game, and as a team, Price had 21 steals to just 7 for AVC, which was led by John Cho with 17 points, Chris Yoo with 10 and Jamal Flanagan with 12.   Here's the official box score: 


OFFICIAL BASKETBALL BOX SCORE--G A M E  T O T A L S
Antelope Valley Christian v. Price High School
03-01-01  4:00 p.m. at Long Beach State (The Pyramid)

VISITORS:  Antelope Valley Christian

No. Name FGM FGA 3PTM 3PTA FT FTA OR DR TOT PF TP A TO BLK STL MIN
03 Jeremia Nurse 1 4 0 3 1 3 1 1 2 4 3 1 8 0 2 24
11 Percey Pickett 1 3 1 1 4 4 0 0 0 0 7 1 3 0 1 24
13 Chris Yoo 3 4 0 0 4 4 2 1 3 1 10 1 1 0 1 22
15 Jamal Flanagan 4 12 1 1 3 4 2 5 7 5 12 0 5 0 0 20
31 Alfred Collins 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 6
12 Joshua Ledford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
24 John Haggerty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
30 Solomon De Francis 2 3 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 2 5 0 0 0 0 18
45 Team Totals 16 39 3 7 19 23 9 17 26 15 54 6 29 0 7 159
TOT FG   1st half   7-19   368   2nd half   9-20   450   Game   410
3PTFG   1st half   2-3   667   2nd half   1-4   250   Game   429
FT   1st half   10-11   909   2nd half   9-12   750   Game   826

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HOME TEAM:  Price High School

No. Name FGM FGA 3PTM 3PTA FT FTA OR DR TOT PF TP A TO BLK STL MIN
04 Chris Alexander 9 14 2 5 4 4 1 1 2 2 24 3 4 0 3 18
  Jermaine Jamerson 4 7 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 2 10 0 2 0 2 18
  Khalief Washington 3 7 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 3 6 0 0 0 0 19
  Andrew Howard 5 11 1 6 1 1 1 0 1 3 12 6 6 0 6 18
  Oscar Edwards 3 3 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 2 6 0 1 0 3 17
  Schuyler McKay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5
  Samuel McDonald 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 4 1 1 0 0 5
  Paul Simon 2 6 0 1 5 7 1 1 2 5 9 1 74 0 6 15
  Jabril N'Diaye 3 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 1 6 1 1 0 1 11
  Delbert Gordon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
  Nicholas Bradley 4 9 1 4 0 0 1 1 2 1 9 0 2 0 0 15
  Brandon Herron 3 6 0 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 6 0 1 0 0 16
  Team Totals 37 69 4 16 14 17 18 15 33 21 92 13 22 0 21 158
TOT FG   1st half   14-34 412 2nd half   23-+35 657 Game 536
3ptFG 1st half   3-13 231 2nd half 1-3 333 Game 250
FT   1st half   8-8 100 2nd half   6-9 667 Game   824

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OFFICIALS:     Andrew Anderson, Kirk Walker
TECHNICAL FOULS:   
Antelope Valley Christian--none
Price High School-- none
ATTENDANCE
SCORE BY PERIODS:        1st    2nd     3rd    4th    OT1    OT2     TOTAL
Antelope Valley Christian        13     13     7         21                             54
Price High School                     23     16    37      16                             92

First round games
February 14
  Second Round
Feb. 16
  Quarterfinals
Feb. 20
  Semifinals
Feb. 23
Alternate Site
  Finals
March 1

The Pyramid
Upper Half of Bracket        
Santa Clarita Chr. 42 @ Price 111 Masada 43
@
Price 95
Price 97

@

Apple Valley 40

Price 111

 

@Manual Arts
(Thurs 2/22)

 

Tarbut v' Torah 68

Price 92

 

@ The Pyramid
Thurs. 4:00 p.m.

 

AV Christian 54

Maricopa 53 @ Masada 59
Mesrobian 59 @ Renaissance 57 Mesrobian 59
@
Apple Valley 63
Apple Valley Chr. 66 @ Big Pine 58
Trinity Lutheran 34 @ Tarbut V. Torah 65 Joshua Springs 56
@ (8:00 p.m Sat)
Tarbut v. Torah 69
WLA Baptist 74

@

Tarbut v. Torah 80

Trona 64 @ Joshua Springs 66
First Lutheran 60 @ Valley Chr. SM 55 WLA Baptist 61
@
First Lutheran 59
Calvary Baptist 50 @ West LA Baptist 103
Lower Half of Bracket      
Skyward Chr. 38 @ Stoneridge Prep 97 Stoneridge Prep 59
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Cuyama Valley 54
Desert Chr. 62

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Stoneridge 54

Desert Christian BD 55

 

@ Lancaster HS
(Sat, 2/24)

 

AV Christian 68

Cuyama Valley 58 @ Delphi Academy 47
Owens Valley 19 @ California Lutheran 71 Cal Lutheran 49
@
Desert Chr. BD 55
Hesperia Christian 73 @ Desert Chr. BD 83
Shandon 73 @ Orangewood Acd. 89 Orangewood 66
@ (Tues. 2/20)
Hillcrest Chr TO 42
Orangewood

(Wed. 2/21)

AV Christian

Hillcrest TO 56 @ Newbury Park Adv. 49
Acaciawood 51 @ Immanuel Chr 43 AV Christian
@
Acaciawood
Calvary Chapel R 47 @ Antelope Valley Chr. 70

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