(West Covina) – Monrovia and West Covina finally\u00a0faced off Friday night.\u00a0No it wasn’t the dream match up that everybody wanted to see\u00a0on the football field, but instead on the basketball court as Monrovia jumped out to an early lead and held on to beat the Bulldogs 70-67 in the Pride of the Foothills Tournament at West Covina High.<\/p>\n
Monrovia started quickly out of the gate with an 8-1 run behind buckets by Carl Daniels and Evan Bough and Hector Medina also hit a three later in the period for a 19-12 first quarter Wildcat lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jared Valdivez heated up in the second quarter for West Covina knocking down three consecutive bombs from\u00a0beyond the arc. David\u00a0 Kim and Stanley Tran\u00a0both socred five points in the period in a 25 point quarter\u00a0as the Bulldogs crept to within two at\u00a039-37 at the half.<\/p>\n
Jonah Mendoza and\u00a0Tran both hit threes in the third\u00a0for West Covina\u00a0but Justin Mellinger\u00a0scored five points\u00a0down low to keep Monrovia up by one heading into the fourth.<\/p>\n
Bough scored five big points for M-Town in the final frame\u00a0and Antoine Gholar hit a couple of free throws\u00a0to keep the Dogs at bay. Valdivez hit another three for West Covina in the fourth for his sixth three of the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s been a struggle for both teams early\u00a0so far. Monrovia improved\u00a0to 2-9 with the win while West Covina dropped to 2-8.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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(West Covina) – Monrovia and West Covina finally\u00a0faced off Friday night.\u00a0No it wasn’t the dream match up that everybody wanted to see\u00a0on the football field, but instead on the basketball court as Monrovia jumped out to an early lead and held on to beat the Bulldogs 70-67 in the Pride of the Foothills Tournament at […]<\/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-21204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21207,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions\/21207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}