{"id":5045,"date":"2009-12-28T22:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2009-12-28T22:05:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:05:53","slug":"st-francis-weathers-ram-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"St. Francis Weathers Ram Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5046\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5046\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5046\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/st-francis-12-28-007-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zach Aquino Scored 14 for Rams <\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Temple City) \u2013 Temple City gave St. Francis all it wanted but the Golden Knights had enough to escape with a 63-56 win Monday night at the Temple City- La Salle Holiday Classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<!--more-->\u00a0The Rams cut the lead to one at 41-40 in the second quarter and also got within two in the final period before eventually succumbing to deep St. Francis squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Zach Aquino and Matt Valazza shared scoring honors for Temple City with 14 points each. The pair combined to hit seven three pointers with Valazza knocking down four.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cThis is the best game we played so far. If we played the way we did last week we would have gotten blown out. But we played well tonight,\u201d said Temple City Coach Rich Hollinger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Tommy Jordan continued to have the hot hand for St. Francis. He buried four from downtown and nailed five of five from the free throw line to finish with 21 points. He was joined by Sevan Zarifan who also had 21 which included three treys.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Jordan had nine (all threes) for St. Francis in the first quarter but Aquino kept TC close with five as St. Francis led 16-14. Jordan hit all five of his free throws in the second quarter and had ten in the period as the Golden Knights moved out to a 33-27 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Valazza\u2019s two bombs from behind the arc and a three by Caleb Halversen sparked the Rams in the third. Zarifan warmed up later in the quarter for St. Franks to keep them at bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 The Golden Knights hit six of eight free throws in the final period to ward off the Temple City run. Spencer Nieves was a perfect four for four in the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Leo Chu added eight for Temple City to help out Valazza and Aquino. Jordan Hill added six. After Jordan and Zarifan, the scoring dropped off significantly for St. Francis. Nieves was next in the column with six.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 St. Francis advances to play the winner of the Keppel- Arcadia contest tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>TC 14\u00a0 13\u00a0 16\u00a0 13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 56<\/p>\n<p>SF\u00a0 16\u00a0 17\u00a0 16\u00a0 14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 63<\/p>\n<p>TC \u2013 Aquino 14, Denny Chong 4, Hill 6, Harriman Chiang 4, Valazza 14, Halversen 6, Chu 8.<\/p>\n<p>SF- Jordan 21, Zarifan 21, Travis Tailanko 2, Ian Hamilton 2, Austen Mumper 3, Emerson Castaneda 3, David Chrikian, Justin Posthuma 2, Nieves 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Temple City) \u2013 Temple City gave St. Francis all it wanted but the Golden Knights had enough to escape with a 63-56 win Monday night at the Temple City- La Salle Holiday Classic. \u00a0<\/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":[1753,1755,1754,1750,1751,1752,1734,1731,1749],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-caleb-halversen","tag-jordan-hill","tag-leo-chu","tag-matt-valazza","tag-rich-hollinger","tag-sevan-zarifan","tag-spencer-nieves","tag-tommy-jordan","tag-zach-aquino"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","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=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}