By Corey Kwok<\/p>\n
Monday December 26<\/strong><\/p>\n La Salle<\/strong> 69, LA Baptist 42<\/strong><\/p>\n (La Salle H.S.) – Jordan Hill and Jeff Briegel both had double-doubles, co-game high 19 points each, and a block for host La Salle, who handily cruised past LA Baptist 69-42 to open up tournament play. Hill added an additional 11 rebounds and 6 steals while Briegel led all rebounders with 13.<\/p>\n Hill, Izzy Lacy, Conor Williams, and Garrett Stone all dialed in 2 assists. Kevin Walsh provided the Lancers with 6 rebounds, a block, an assist, and 6 points off the bench in the second half. Andrew Davis led LAB with 18.<\/p>\n Keppel 42, South Pasadena 36<\/strong><\/p>\n The Aztecs overcame miserable free throw shooting and a second quarter void of made-field goals to navigate their way past South Pasadena 42-36. Matt Low scored just 3 points, but was effective elsewhere with 7 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals in benefitting Keppel’s cause.<\/p>\n Garrett Masada led the Aztecs and all scorers with 23 points and 5 three-pointers, burying three of those in the final frame.<\/p>\n South Pas was led by 11 points and 8 rebounds from Eren Cameron, another 7 points and 12 boards by Nicolas Sullivan, and a creatively-mustered 9 points out of Alireza Jabalameli.<\/p>\n Village Christian 52, Montebello 37<\/strong><\/p>\n Bryan Alberts unleashed a smooth 9-for-13 flood from the field for 20 points as Village paced past Montebello 52-37.<\/p>\n The Oilers received an outstanding performance from Hector Martinez who scored 23 of Montebello’s 37. Adolfo Valdez was next with 9.<\/p>\n Other results:<\/strong><\/p>\n Bell-Jeff 64, St. Paul 42<\/strong><\/p>\n Bell-Jeff outscored St. Paul in every frame and pulled away in the second half to win 64-42, handing SP the Swordsmen their fourth loss in their last five games. St. Paul (3-9) is steadily making progress under first year coach Shawn Clingan. The Swordsmen were 2-12 at this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Corey Kwok Monday December 26 La Salle 69, LA Baptist 42<\/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":[6597,6595,6590,6596,6587,6593,6592,6588,4302,1755,6589,6591,6594,6598],"class_list":["post-21347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-adolfo-valdez","tag-alireza-jabalameli","tag-andrew-davis","tag-bryan-alberts","tag-conor-williams","tag-eren-cameron","tag-garrett-masada","tag-garrett-stone","tag-jeff-briegel","tag-jordan-hill","tag-kevin-walsh","tag-matt-low","tag-nicolas-sullivan","tag-shawn-clingan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347","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=21347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21348,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}