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December 28, 2007
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Walter Wong Holiday Basketball Classic Schedule Day 3
3:00pm Academy of the Pacific (HI) vs. Sedro Woolley (WA) – 7th Place
4:30pm Cypress (CA) vs. Saint Louis II (HI) – 5th Place
6:00pm Cimmaron Memorial (NV) vs. Deer Creek (OK) – 3rd Place
7:30pm Martin Luther King (CA) vs. Saint Louis I (HI) – Championship

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SAINT FRANCIS MERV LOPES HOLIDAY
CLASSIC

SCORES FROM DECEMBER 28, 2007

Submitted by Sol Batoon

Photos from Maxyne Salvador

Punahou defeated Bishop Gorman, the #1 ranked team in Neveda, to advance to the Championship Game.  They will play Good Counsel, ranked #1 in Washington D.C.  Good Counsel was able to defeat Kalaheo in the other Semi Final.

NOTE:  Game Time Changes for Saturday, December 29.

Championship Game:  Punahou v Good Counsel      7:00p

3rd Place Game:  Kalaheo v Bishop Gorman            8:30p

CONSOLATION GAMES

GAME 1

Kamehameha II 60

High scores are – Kai Rilliet – 13

–         
Kepoo Noa – 10

–         
Kawai Makuakane – 12

Damien 46

High scores are – Nikko Romuar – 14

–         
Anthony Tuitele – 14

GAME 2

Kahuku 46

High scores are – Jray Galeai – 11

–         
Irwin AhHoy – 10

Kailua 43

High scores are – Kenny Ellis – 25

GAME 3

Hanford (Calif.)
46

High scores are – D.J. Jackson – 14

Leilehua 17

High score are – Art Laurel – 8

GAME 4

Hilo 57

High scores are – Nick Acosta -16

                         – Chan spikes -11

Waiakea 53

High scores are – T J Yasuhara – 16

Championship Bracket

GAME 5

Kamehameha HI 68

High scores are – Hogan Rosehill- 26

–         
Colton
Collins – 16

Otay Ranch (Calif) – 61

High scores are – Anthony Cosesntino – 27

–         
Marvin Wright – 14

–         
Alex Perez – 13

GAME 6

Thousand
Oaks (Calif) – 67

High scores are – Michael Whalen – 14

–         
Cyrus Kiani – 12

–         
Tyler Shelton – 10

Mililani -42

High scores are – Curtis Murakami -8

GAME 7

PUNAHOU – 60

High scores are – Mantai Teo – 14

                         – Kameron Steinhoff – 14

BISHOP GORMAN (Las Vegas NV)
– 53

High scores are – Blake Moor – 19

                         – Quinton Daily – 13

GAME 8 Game in progress

GOOD COUNSEL (Md.)

High scores are –

KALAHEO –

High scores are –

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December 28, 2007
David Kawada – Content Editor
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December 28, 2007
David Kawada – Content Editor
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Key free throws and steady play eventually sealed the victory for the Menehune.  They will meet a Warrior team that has already defeated them once on the Kamehameha campus.  Head Coach Greg Tacon and his crew will be looking to event the record on Saturday.
 

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December 28, 2007

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December 27, 2007

Digital Sports Hawaii Staff

2007 WALTER WONG HOLIDAY BASKETBALL CLASSIC Saint Louis
School – McCabe Gym

Deer Creek of Oklahoma recovered from an early 11-2
deficit and took its first lead of the game on Kyle Ferguson‚s 10 foot jumper
with 8 seconds left in the game to beat Cypress of California.

CYPRESS (CA) 9 12 15 7 — 43

DEER CREEK (OK) 5 12 16 11 — 44

CYPRESS: Andrw Sakakura 0, Shane Rothman 10, Justin Igawa
1, Michael Stone 6, Casey Purtle 0, Justin Delinger 14, Jordan Castaneda 6, Max
Reza 0, Joseph Lee 4, Austin Loeb 0, Le Quan Carpenter 2. TOTALS 15 11-21 43.

DEER CREEK: Baylor Thomas 1, Josh Phillips 14, Chase
Almen 4, Adam Byrd 10, Braydon Ramirez 1, Paul Hobbs 0, Kyle Ferguson 4, Jordan
Lundeen 7, Zach Trujillo 3. TOTALS 16 7-16 44.

3PT FG: CYPRESS 2 (Shane Rothman 1, Justin Delinger 1),
DEER CREEK 5 (Josh Phillips 2, Adam Byrd 3)

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Mike Cutright scored the first ten points of the game as
the Spartans from Nevada cruised to victory over the Dolphins.

CIMMARON MEMORIAL(NV) 
28 15 18 21 — 82

ACADEMY OF THE PACIFIC (HI)    8  
4   2   0 — 14

CIMMARON MEMORIAL: 
Brayden Quackenbush 7, Dale Puckett 8, Mike Cutright 20,Will Scott 2,
Dillon Brummett 13, Marc Massaro 6, Akeem Ogaldez 12, Tyler Tuliau 0, Jordan
Collins 10, Nate Weldon 4.  TOTALS 38 2-4
82.

AOP:  Jordan Ching
2, Evan Paresa 0, Christian Piimoku 0, Brad Foster 8, Josh Chaffin 2, Lopaka
Davis 0, Nick Seberg 2, Daniel Stanfield 0. 
TOTALS 5 4

-6 14.

3PT FG: 
CIMMARON MEMORIAL 4 (Brayden Quackenbush 1, Dillon Brummett

 3),

AOP 0

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The Wolves (the 10th Ranked team in California) used a
22-0 run to open up a

34-8 lead midway through the second quarter and never
looked back in beating the ILH Division Two Crusaders.

MARTIN LUTHER KING (CA) 21 19 11 14 — 65

SAINT LOUIS II (HI)   
8   2   4 14 — 28

MARTIN LUTHER KING: Jarid Borja 7, Steven Mallory 3, George
Fields 0, Marcus Lea 1, Carlos Balasquide 1, Taylor Cunningham 8, Jeremiah
Campbell 6, Chris Hatzl 2, Xavier Muldrow 1, Kawhi Leonard 9, Trevor Peters 4,
Julius Anderson 5, Eysan Toole 0, Eric Wise 12, Kyle Perry 6.  TOTALS 23 17-36 65.

SAINT LOUIS II: 
Danny Higa 5, Joseph O‚Conner 4, Joey Bryant 3, Christian
Balthazar-Chang 0, Josh Saio 0, Chris Kamaka 0, Brandon McKee 11, Chris Cook 3,
Joe Lacaden 2, Nainoa Tampos 0, Danny Perry 0, Marcus Gonzalez 0, Steven
Donohue 0.  TOTALS 7 14-22 28.

3PT FG:  MARTIN
LUTHER KING 2 (Jarid Borja 1, Kawhi Leonard 1), SAINT LOUIS II 0

—————————————————————————–

The tournament host ILH Division One Crusaders outscored
the Cubs from Washington in each quarter and rested their starters for much of
the game.

SEDRO WOOLLEY (WA)  
5 12 12   8 — 37

SAINT LOUIS I (HI) 
17 13 20 22 — 72

SEDRO WOOLLEY: 
Nolan Schweigert 2, Ethan Brown 20, Taylor Pedroza 8,

Anthony Kolvick 0, Levi Stewart 1, David Janicki 6, Cory
Colwell 0, Justin Leber 0, Isaac Brown 0, Kellen Engberg 0.  TOTALS 12 10-19 37.

SAINT LOUIS I: 
Lucas Gonsalves 2, Kamakani Usui 6, Micah McClinton 6,

Corey Lau 4, Dean Viena 14, Kyle Gonzaga 4, Cole Shidaki
6, Marcus Umu 2, Michael Tuiloma 6, Jamison Miller 14, Moses Samia 8.

TOTALS 33 4-10 72.

3PT FG:  SEDRO
WOOLLEY 3 (Ethan Brown 1, Taylor Pedroza 1, David

Janicki

1), SAINT LOUIS I 2 (Kamakani Usui 1, Dean Viena 1)

Walter Wong Holiday Basketball Classic Schedule Day
2 3:00pm Cypress

(CA) vs. Sedro Woolley (WA) 4:30pm Academy of the
Pacific (HI) vs.

Saint Louis II (HI) 6:00pm Cimmaron Memorial (NV)
vs. Martin Luther

King (CA) 7:30pm Deer Creek (OK) vs. Saint Louis I
(HI)

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December 26, 2007
Submitted by Sol Batoon

Good Counsel         74
Kahuku                 29      

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By Bubba Harnist
Staff Writer

GREENWOOD – For the last three years of the Center Grove Holiday Tournament, the championship game has pitted the host Trojans against Columbus East. In 2004-05 and again last season, the Olympians knocked off Center Grove. Two years ago, it was Center Grove winning over Columbus East.

The good news for Center Grove fans Dec. 27 was that the Trojans continued the pattern of winning every other year as Class 4A No. 10 Center Grove defeated Columbus East, 56-49, to capture its seventh championship in the nine-year history of the event.

Despite having played a game earlier in the day – Center Grove got 17 points from Price en route to a 57-34 win over Madison, while Columbus East got 15 points from both McKayla Barber and Brianna Layton in a 56-45 upset of 4A No. 4 Mooresville – both teams came out firing.

As baskets were exchanged at a rapid pace, Center Grove couldn’t its lead past three points, while Columbus East was fighting to get the lead for more than one possession at a time.

The Trojans pushed the lead to four with a free throw from Jordan Price with 1:39 left in the first quarter, and at the end of the period Center Grove held a three-point lead at 17-14 as the Trojans scored at least one point on their final seven possessions.

The second quarter was remarkably different, especially for Columbus East. Try this one on for size: The Olympians – the defending 4A state runner-up – scored exactly zero points in the period.

“The key was our defense the whole ball game,” said Center Grove coach Joe Lentz. “I thought we needed to step up the level of intensity from this morning, and we did. We are getting better and better defensively.”

Center Grove, however, didn’t exactly light up the scoreboard during the Olympians’ drought.

The Trojans didn’t get their first bucket of the second quarter until a successful jump shot by Kristen Gliesmann with 4:38 left. Over the next two minutes, Center Grove got a jumper from Katy Watson and a 3-pointer from Price before a very tired Columbus East team called a timeout trailing 24-14.

Luckily for East, the Trojans didn’t score over the final 2:33, and the Olympians’ deficit remained 10 at the intermission.

Two minutes into the third quarter, Center Grove pushed its lead to 13 at 29-16 on a three from Brittney Shaner. But Columbus East then turned up the pressure and reeled off nine points, including a four-point play, in 46 seconds to cut the deficit to four.

“They did a nice job of attacking us,” Lentz said. “We sometimes pushed it too hard, and they got us into a much more quick pace. We took some rushed shots and made some poor decisions.”

Not to be outdone, the Trojans reeled off six straight points to push the lead back to 10 at 35-25. The two team exchanged hoops over the final two minutes, but Columbus East was able to trim the deficit to two at 40-32 heading into the fourth.

Columbus East narrowed the deficit to four points two minutes into the final stanza, and again three minutes in. But Center Grove quickly pushed the lead back to six or eight. When Price hit one of two free throws with 2:11 to play, Center Grove led 50-44.

But the Olympians responded with a 3-pointer from Jordan Ogle and a layup from Shannon Van Horn to make it 50-49 with only 1:34 remaining. East then had a golden opportunity on the next possession when the O’s forced a missed shot by Center Grove.

But CG senior Emily Fergason grabbed the offensive rebound and scored to put the Trojans ahead by three and, after a Columbus East miss, Price hit two more free throws to extend the Trojans’ lead to 54-49. A turnover by Columbus East on its next possession sealed the Center Grove win.

With two wins on the day (the Trojans had defeated Madison in an opening-round game of the four-team tourney), Center Grove improves to 8-2 on the season. Gliesmann’s 18 points led the way while Priced added another 14 for the Trojans, whose next contest will be a huge Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference Dec. 29 home game against 4A No. 14 Terre Haute South.

“Mentally, it’s difficult (playing two games in one day), but we were up to the task today,” Lentz said. “This is still a young team – I like where we are going.

“We have some things to work on, but we have a really great opportunity to be great at the end.”

Leading the way for the Olympians (8-4) was Ogle with 19 points, while Stephanie Santos chipped in nine and Brianna Layton had eight. Next up for East is a Jan. 3 trip to Seymour for a Hoosier Hills Conference clash.

In the consolation game, Mooresville got three straight 3-pointers in the final 1:07 of the first half to blow open what had been a close game. That allowed Mooresville to build a 10-point lead over Madison, and the Pioneers went on to a 60-38 victory.

Madison used an 8-0 run early in the third quarter to get the deficit to nine, but Mooresville (10-2) quickly pushed the lead back to double digits and led 48-33 after three quarters. Leading the way for the Pioneers was freshman Jama Sharp with 24 points, while Meagan Callaway added 10.

Madison (3-9) was led by Sadie Bowling’s 15 points, while Nicole Goble chipped in 10.

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By Eric Eaton
HCC Coordinator

MONTICELLO – Junior Paige Smith scored 26 points and grabbed nine rebounds Dec. 27 as Class 4A No. 5 Hamilton Southeastern cruised into the semifinals of the Twin Lakes Invitational with a 68-43 rout of 2A No. 14 Taylor. Click
here to watch highlights from the game!

Smith, who made 12 of 16 shots against the Titans, scored 16 of her team’s 22 second-half points.

“We didn’t think they could handle her in the post,” said Hamilton Southeastern coach Chris Huppenthal.

The Royals used a tremendous effort on defense during the game’s first half to grab a
36-21 lead at intermission, limiting Taylor to just 29 percent on 5-of-17 shooting from the field.

“We try to tell our kids the constant has always got to be on the defensive side of the ball,” Huppenthal said.

The second half saw Courtney Osborn, the Royals’ leading scorer at 17 points a game, foul out with 1:47 remaining in the third quarter. And while the junior finished four points shy of her average, her absence was viewed by Huppenthal to have been a positive on this night.

“She went out, and we had to play some kids without her on the floor – I think that was good experience for our kids,” said Huppenthal. “We’re trying to get some growth here through this tournament, and that was a good learning experience for our kids and a good situation for them to be in.”

Hamilton Southeastern, which improved to 10-1 on the season, will face 3A No. 2 Twin Lakes in the Dec. 28 semifinals of the tournament. The tournament host Indians downed Western, 73-47, in their opening-round game.

Taylor, which dropped to 7-5, will take on Western in the consolation bracket of the tournament.

The tournament’s championship game will take place Dec. 28 at 8 p.m. ET.

Here are results from Day 1, plus the remainder of the tournament schedule:

Thursday, Dec. 27
First round
Logansport 61, 3A No. 5 Evansville Memorial 43
Indianapolis Cathedral 44, 3A No. 14 Lebanon 31
4A No. 5 Hamilton Southeastern 68, 2A No. 14 Taylor 42
3A No. 2 Twin Lakes 73, Western 47

Friday, Dec. 28
Semifinals
Logansport vs. Indianapolis Cathedral
Hamilton Southeastern vs. Twin Lakes

Championship
Logansport/Indianapolis Cathedral winner vs. Hamilton Southeastern/Twin Lakes winner

Consolation
Evansville Memorial vs. Lebanon
Taylor vs. Western
Evansville Memorial/Lebanon loser vs. Taylor/Western loser (7th place)
Evansville Memorial/Lebanon winner vs. Taylor/Western winner (5th place)
Logansport/Indianapolis Cathedral loser vs. Hamilton Southeastern/Twin Lakes loser (3rd place)

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