{"id":57692,"date":"2017-03-03T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57692"},"modified":"2017-03-04T01:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:11:42","slug":"brentwood-busts-burbank-at-buzzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57692","title":{"rendered":"Brentwood Busts Burbank at Buzzer"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Faraz<\/a>

Faraz Khandaker glides in for two of his 18. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n

(Azusa)\u2014 Brentwood\u2019s Braelee Albert\u2019s three-pointer as time expired lifted the Brentwood Eagles to a 55-54 victory over the Burbank Bulldogs in the CIF Division 3AA Boys Final Friday night at the Felix Event Center on the campus of Azusa Pacific University.<\/p>\n

The Eagles let an 11-point lead slip away in the fourth period. Then saw the Bulldogs Cameron Sweeten tie the game with a layup at the end of regulation, before Albert\u2019s desperation three-pointer from 25-feet gave the CIF title to Brentwood.<\/p>\n

Albert, only a sophomore, finished with 27-points and 11-rebounds for the Eagles. Teammate and fellow sophomore, Eric Olofson added 14.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/a>

Michael Woods worked hard to keep the Bulldogs close. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n

Burbank, which struggled offensively for most of the night, was led by Faraz Khandaker\u2019s 18 points and Michael Wood\u2019s 10-points and 10-rebounds. The Bulldogs were only 19 of 62 from the field (30.6%) and just six of 26 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Burbank built an early 12-6 lead but slowly saw it melt away. Brentwood closed the gap to 12-10 at the end of one, and the contest was a 20-20 tie at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n

In the third quarter, the Eagles took control. Outscoring the Bulldogs 15-9, they used solid offensive sets with Albert and Olofson doing most of the damage. Burbank couldn’t get an offensive rhythm and was forced to launch, continually, from the outside.<\/p>\n

With 3:30 to play in the third, Henrik Anassian knocked down a pair of free throws to give Burbank a 29-27 advantage. They wouldn\u2019t score again for another 7:58 (nearly an entire quarter) as Brentwood went to work and built a 39-29 and eventual 43-32 lead.<\/p>\n

After Brentwood\u2019s Samuel Clareman stole a pass and converted a layup, it was 45-34 with 3:17 on the fourth quarter clock.<\/p>\n

But that score was followed by a pair of threes from Burbank to narrow the gap. Cameron Sweeten made a three-point play, and it was 45-43. Albert answered with a score down low. The Bulldogs Sweeten scored once and then with zero time left scored again to send it into overtime.<\/p>\n

In OT, Burbank jumped to a 50-47 lead before the Eagles Finnley O\u2019Rourke scored on a put-back. Albert added a free throw, and 30-seconds later added another bucket to make it 52-50 in favor of Brentwood with 1:14 remaining.<\/p>\n

Khandaker put the Bulldogs back up with a three-point play, Burbank added another free throw\u2026but missed its next four from the charity stripe to set up Alberts heroics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Torosian (Azusa)\u2014 Brentwood\u2019s Braelee Albert\u2019s three-pointer as time expired lifted the Brentwood Eagles to a 55-54 victory over the Burbank Bulldogs in the CIF Division 3AA Boys Final Friday night at the Felix Event Center on the campus of Azusa Pacific University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12665,12661,3542,365,5761,8661],"class_list":["post-57692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-brentwood-basketball","tag-burbank-basketball","tag-joe-t","tag-joe-torosian","tag-mid-valley-sports","tag-mvs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57692","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57703,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57692\/revisions\/57703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}