{"id":45953,"date":"2014-12-26T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T05:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45953"},"modified":"2014-12-28T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T02:20:07","slug":"ali-is-a-knock-out-for-temple-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45953","title":{"rendered":"Ali is a Knockout for Temple City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45954\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=45954\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45954\" class=\"size-large wp-image-45954\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC03418-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Eli Elhawary scored 31 points to lead Temple City \" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eli Elhawary scored 31 points to lead Temple City<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Temple City) &#8211; Ali Elhawary scored 31\u00a0points including 16 in the third quarter to lead Temple City to a 72-61 win over Franklin Friday night\u00a0in the SGV Classic Basketball Tournament.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Elhawary\u00a0didn&#8217;t score a point in the first quarter\u00a0but tossed in\u00a010 in the second and then exploded in the third as the Rams broke it open. He hit four\u00a0threes in the quarter and three straight to close out the\u00a0period as Temple City jumped out to a 15 point lead at 57-42.\u00a0He was seven of nine in the third\u00a0scoring 16 of the Rams&#8217; 22.<\/p>\n<p>Temple City raced out of the gate to a 9-0 lead\u00a0but by the time the first quarter ended it was Franklin who had the advantage after going on a 16-2 run to go up\u00a016-11. TC got back on track in the second as Tyler Api and Elwahary teamed up as the Rams outscored Franklin\u00a024-15 in the quarter to give Temple City a 35-31 halftime margin.\u00a0Api had eight points in the second including a three.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin tried to make a run in the fourth behind guard Tyler Alfelor but was never able to get within striking distance.<\/p>\n<p>***Api finished with 21 as he and\u00a0Elhawary combined for 52 of Temple City&#8217;s 72.<\/p>\n<p>***Temple City&#8217;s Rich Hollinger threw down a jam early in the fourth quarter that sent a buzz through the crowd as well as the Rams&#8217; bench. Hollinger had nine points on the night.<\/p>\n<p>***The Rams\u00a0lost the lead in the first quarter before regaining it 32-31 late in the second. They never trailed again.<\/p>\n<p>***Alfelor led the Franklin scoring attack with 27. He had\u00a0nine points in the first quarter and four threes on the night.<\/p>\n<p>***Alvin Basco and Jesse Solano each had\u00a010 for Franklin.<\/p>\n<p>***Temple City hit\u00a0nine three point shots while Franklin nailed\u00a0seven.<\/p>\n<p>***TC had the edge in free throws 14-12.<\/p>\n<p>***TC: 11\u00a0 24\u00a0 22\u00a0 15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F: 16\u00a0 15\u00a0 11\u00a0 19<\/p>\n<p>***Temple City\u00a0improved to\u00a07-4 on the year while Franklin fell to 1-7.<\/p>\n<p>***The SGV Championship game is Tuesday night at Monrovia High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Temple City) &#8211; Ali Elhawary scored 31\u00a0points including 16 in the third quarter to lead Temple City to a 72-61 win over Franklin Friday night\u00a0in the SGV Classic Basketball Tournament.<\/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":[10803,10804,1751,10805,8742,10806,10802],"class_list":["post-45953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-ali-elhawary","tag-franklin-basketball","tag-rich-hollinger","tag-sgv-basketball-classic","tag-temple-city-basketball","tag-tyler-alfelor","tag-tyler-api"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45953","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=45953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46000,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45953\/revisions\/46000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}