{"id":37680,"date":"2014-02-20T23:08:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T06:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37680"},"modified":"2014-02-20T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T06:08:19","slug":"lady-lions-season-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37680","title":{"rendered":"Lady Lions Season Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37681\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=37681\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37681\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37681\" class=\"size-large wp-image-37681\" alt=\"Tiyana Watkins led the Lady Lions with 15 but it wasn't enough \" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/EM-LADY-LIONS-2-20-14-007-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiyana Watkins led the Lady Lions with 15 but it wasn&#8217;t enough<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(El Monte) &#8211;\u00a0The El Monte girls led at halftime\u00a0and were\u00a0still within a point heading into the fourth quarter. But\u00a0the Lady Lions\u00a0couldn&#8217;t keep up in the final frame and\u00a0fell to Calabasas 58-47 Thursday night in the first round of the CIF Division 3AA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Calabasas\u00a0led 36-35 after three\u00a0before outscoring El Monte 22-12 in the fourth quarter\u00a0to put it away. Tal Sahar scored eight points in the fourth and led all scorers with 23 points. Calabasas also knocked down\u00a0ten free throws in the quarter\u00a0as the Lady Lions\u00a0kept fouling to try to stay\u00a0in the game.<\/p>\n<p>***Ellie Burke was eight of 12 from the line for Calabasas in the fourth quarter and also\u00a0finished in double digits with\u00a022.<\/p>\n<p>***Burke buried three consecutive threes in the\u00a0third quarter and hit four for the game.<\/p>\n<p>***Both teams\u00a0started slow.\u00a0Calabasas\u00a0led 12-7 after one but scored only three points in the second quarter\u00a0as\u00a0El Monte took an 18-15 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>***As cold as they were early\u00a0both teams warmed up in the third.\u00a0While Burke was lighting it up for Calabasas, Tiyana Watkins\u00a0scored eight points down in the paint to keep the\u00a0Lady Lions in the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>***Watkins led El Monte with 15 and Emmy Pham\u00a0followed up with 12. Pham\u00a0scored eight of the Lady Lions&#8217; 11 points in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>***There was a big difference at the charity stripe.\u00a0El Monte was 3 for\u00a09 while Calabasas was 14 for 27.<\/p>\n<p>***Calabasas knocked down\u00a0six\u00a0threes while El Monte hit two.<\/p>\n<p>***Calabasas made just\u00a0one field goal in the second quarter but then scored six more points in the third quarter\u00a0it did\u00a0in the entire first half.<\/p>\n<p>***Melissa Mendoza and Evelyn Ortiz\u00a0added\u00a0six and five points respectively for the Lady Lions.<\/p>\n<p>***El Monte won the MVL title with a 9-1 record and\u00a0finished 17-7 overall.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12\u00a0 3\u00a0 21\u00a0 22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 58<\/p>\n<p>EM\u00a0\u00a07\u00a0 11\u00a0 17\u00a0 12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(El Monte) &#8211;\u00a0The El Monte girls led at halftime\u00a0and were\u00a0still within a point heading into the fourth quarter. But\u00a0the Lady Lions\u00a0couldn&#8217;t keep up in the final frame and\u00a0fell to Calabasas 58-47 Thursday night in the first round of the CIF Division 3AA Playoffs.<\/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-37680","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\/37680","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=37680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37683,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions\/37683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}