{"id":30623,"date":"2012-12-30T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30623"},"modified":"2012-12-30T01:04:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T08:04:38","slug":"damien-captures-covina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=30623","title":{"rendered":"Damien Captures Covina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30628\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30628\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30628\" title=\"12-29-12 DAMIEN CHAMPS 001\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/12-29-12-DAMIEN-CHAMPS-001-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damien Spartans: 2012 Covina Tournament Champs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Covina) &#8211;\u00a0Damien\u00a0took a seven point lead into the fourth quarter\u00a0and then had to hold on to beat Rowland 59-57 Saturday night to win the 59th Annual Covina Christmas Tournament. It was the second straight Covina Tournament title for the Spartans.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Rowland\u00a0had a shot to tie it with\u00a014 seconds left but Joseph Dionisio missed a driving layup at the buzzer and the Raiders fell short.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Hemsley\u00a0scored 19 points to lead the Spartans. Hemsley, who scored\u00a023 points in the semi final game\u00a0against California Friday night picked up Tournament\u00a0MVP for his efforts. Hemsley scored\u00a0seven points in the fourth quarter\u00a0including three big free throws.\u00a0Ayo Adeji finished with 11 points,\u00a0Isaiah McCullough had nine and Jared Dizon\u00a0added eight.<\/p>\n<p>For Rowland,\u00a0Dionisio 19, Chris Arzadon 18\u00a0and Saeed Montoya\u00a014, combined for\u00a053 of the team&#8217;s 57 points.\u00a0Dionisio and Arzadon combined for\u00a019 of Rowland&#8217;s 21 points in the fourth quarter.\u00a0Both players earned all tournament honors.<\/p>\n<p>Damien led 30-25 at the half\u00a0and extended\u00a0it to seven\u00a0at the end of three\u00a0before holding on at the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tournament\u00a0Scores \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd Place<\/strong>: California\u00a056 Covina 55<\/p>\n<p><strong>5th Place<\/strong>: La Salle 66 Northview 59<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consolation Championship<\/strong>: South Hills 53 Mt. View 35<\/p>\n<p><strong>9th Place<\/strong>: Bishop Amat 56 Los Altos 44<\/p>\n<p><strong>11th Place<\/strong>: Charter Oak 61 Azusa 42<\/p>\n<p><strong>13th Place<\/strong>: Garey 69 Sierra Vista 55<\/p>\n<p><strong>15th Place<\/strong>: South El Monte 43 San Gabriel 35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Covina) &#8211;\u00a0Damien\u00a0took a seven point lead into the fourth quarter\u00a0and then had to hold on to beat Rowland 59-57 Saturday night to win the 59th Annual Covina Christmas Tournament. It was the second straight Covina Tournament title for the Spartans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30627,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30623\/revisions\/30627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}