{"id":31529,"date":"2013-02-24T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=31529"},"modified":"2013-02-24T00:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T07:53:14","slug":"lady-spartans-sacked-by-st-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=31529","title":{"rendered":"Lady Spartans Sacked by St. Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31531\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31531\" class=\" wp-image-31531 \" title=\"Courtney Chen\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/009-511x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"691\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A valiant effort by Courtney Chen wasn&#8217;t enough for the Lady Spartans<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Lakewood) &#8211;\u00a0St. Joseph used a 15-0 run from late in the first quarter to early in the\u00a0second to open up a 14 point lead and\u00a0never relinquished it\u00a0in a 50-40 win over La Canada Saturday night in the Division 3A CIF Semi Finals.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->La Canada led\u00a05-4 in the second quarter\u00a0when\u00a0St. Joseph reeled off the next 15 points\u00a0to take a 19-5 lead. The Jesters never looked back. The closest\u00a0La Canada got was six points in the fourth quarter\u00a0but the Lady Spartans were never able to get over the hump.<\/p>\n<p>St. Joseph still led 27-15 at the half as the Lady Spartans had trouble getting anything going offensively. Lauren Hong had 14 of St. Joseph&#8217;s 27 including eight in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were oh for 10 going into halftme from three so even if two or three of those fall it&#8217;s a different game,\u201d said La Canada Coach Tamar Hill. \u201cSo the shots not falling early hurt us but we made a great surge and the kids are fighters. They really wanted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Canada did make a surge but it didnt happen until the fourth quarter. The Lady Spartans were outscored 13-11 in the third quarter and entered the final frame down 40-26.<\/p>\n<p>A quick 10-2 run to open the quarter got LC right back in the hunt. Courtney Chen scored three buckets and had eight in the fourth to lead the charge. Her basket with 3:21 left cut the lead to 42-36. St. Joseph responded with a couple of stops and Michelle Pennala and Jazmine Gandhi each connected from the field and the Jesters had enough to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Chen was the leading scorer for La Canada with 16 points with half of those coming in the fourth quarter. Amber Graves, only a freshman, was effective down on the block scoring 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmber did a good job, maybe the best of all of them and she&#8217;s just a freshman,\u201d Hill said. \u201cBut turnovers really hurt us. Our whole halfitime mantra was you need to keep the ball in order to score. But you know they&#8217;re just kids and they worked really hard. They came really far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For St. Joseph, Hong took scoring honors with 20. Gandhi scored 11 and Pennala and Dominique Culhno each scored seven.<\/p>\n<p>La Canada knocked off El Monte and Santa Margarita and to reach the semi finals. The Lady Spartans finished 20-9 overall.<\/p>\n<p>LC 5\u00a0\u00a0 10\u00a0 11\u00a0 14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 40<\/p>\n<p>SJ 15\u00a0 12\u00a0 13\u00a0 10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Lakewood) &#8211;\u00a0St. Joseph used a 15-0 run from late in the first quarter to early in the\u00a0second to open up a 14 point lead and\u00a0never relinquished it\u00a0in a 50-40 win over La Canada Saturday night in the Division 3A CIF Semi Finals.<\/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":[8819,4372,8820,8818,8761,8816,8817,8815,1508],"class_list":["post-31529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-amber-graves","tag-courtney-chen","tag-dominique-culhno","tag-jazmine-gandhi","tag-la-canada-basketball","tag-lauren-hong","tag-michelle-pennala","tag-st-joseph-basketball","tag-tamar-hill"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31529","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=31529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31535,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31529\/revisions\/31535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}