{"id":46034,"date":"2014-12-30T21:31:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46034"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:43:20","slug":"spartans-take-third-at-sgv-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46034","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Take Third at SGV Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46040\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46040\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46040\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7193-719x768.jpg\" alt=\"TC's Ali Elhawary and LC's Grant Arthur battle in the consolation game of the San Gabriel Valley Classic Basketball Tournament.\" width=\"520\" height=\"555\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TC&#8217;s Ali Elhawary and LC&#8217;s Grant Arthur battle in the consolation game of the San Gabriel Valley Classic Basketball Tournament.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Monrovia) &#8211; Koko Kurdoghlian scored 16 points and Daivon\u00a0Grayson added 12\u00a0as La Canada beat Temple City 58-55 Tuesday night to take third place in the SGV Basketball Classic at Monrovia\u00a0High.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Grayson&#8217;s driving layup with seconds left proved to be the dagger as the\u00a0bucket put the Spartans up by three. Nathaniel Nuguid heaved up a three at the buzzer but it was blocked and La Canada\u00a0had the victory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46037\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46037\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46037\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7201-571x768.jpg\" alt=\"Daivon Grayson and the Spartans knock off the Rams.\" width=\"520\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daivon Grayson and the Spartans knock off the Rams.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kurdoghlian hit\u00a0 a pair of threes in the first quarter\u00a0and Ben Choi had five to get LC off and running with a 22-15 lead.\u00a0Richard Hollinger, who scored seven in the first quarter for the Rams, remained hot\u00a0with another three\u00a0and had five points in the second. Temple City trailed by just five, 32-27 at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Temple City made its big push in the third quarter outscoring La Canada 17-9 to take a 44-41 lead after three. Ali Elahawary hit a couple of baskets and Hollinger buried another one from three point land.\u00a0However Temple City managed just two field goals in the fourth quarter and La Canada did enough to win.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Arthur was also in double figures for the Spartans with 11.\u00a0Hollinger led the TC attack with 15 and Elahawary tossed in 13. Tyler Api fisnhed with eight.<\/p>\n<p>La Canada improved to 8-4 overall while the Rams fell to 8-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Monrovia) &#8211; Koko Kurdoghlian scored 16 points and Daivon\u00a0Grayson added 12\u00a0as La Canada beat Temple City 58-55 Tuesday night to take third place in the SGV Basketball Classic at Monrovia\u00a0High.<\/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-46034","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\/46034","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=46034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46041,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46034\/revisions\/46041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}