Tyler Dorsey drops 52 on Chaminade!
By Joe Torosian
(Pasadena)–Tyler Dorsey scored 52 points in Maranatha’s 85-60 win over Chaminade Saturday night in the quarterfinals of CIF’s Division 4 Boys State Basketball Championships.
The Eagles jumped to a 5-0 lead, but with 4:15 left in the first quarter Dorsey stroked a three to put the Minutemen up 6-5 and they never trailed again. The lead in the first half would expand to as much as 11, 31-20, before Chaminade’s Michael Oguine scored on back to back lay ups.
This was the narrative of the contest for the rest of the second half as well. The Eagles thanks to their strong backcourt of Oguine and Jordan Ogundiran would close the gap to six many times, even to 56-50 at the start of the final period, but Dorsey and the Minutemen always had a ready response.
Dorsey, who scored 22 in the firsts half and exploded for 20 in the fourth, was seven of nine from beyond the arc. Connecting on some shots as faraway as downtown Arcadia. This was a good thing for Natha HC Tim Tucker as regulars Gamal Smalley (5), Sean Romero (6), Tey Williams (2), and Trevor Stanback (6) combined for just 19 points. Alex Vernon contributed three off the bench, but when Stanback got into early foul trouble it was Jesse Elrod who stepped in with 11 points and a solid job on the glass.
Chaminade had no answers other than its lead guards, Ogundiran (17) and Oguine (27) who combined for 44 points. Paint players Jake Porath, Bar Milo, and Rob Hunter combined for only four points.
The contest took a heated turn with 5:57 to play in the third. Stanback on a breakaway went up to dunk the ball and was taken out by the Eagles Milo. Stanback it the floor hard, the foul was called, but not flagrant. When Milo appeared to smile at the Maranatha crowd things got serious between the players, coaches, and then officials.
Stanback remained on the floor for ten minutes as protocol’s were followed and he later returned to the game in the fourth quarter.
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