Weekend Sports Round Up 12-18-2011

ST LUCY’S WIN TWO

WALNUT– St.Lucy’s girls’ basketball team won two games last week, defeating the Walnut Mustangs 45-32 Tuesday night, and then squeaked past Alta Loma 46-41 Wednesday night.

Against Walnut, the Regents had to come from behind as it trailed 8-7 after the first quarter and 24-20 at the half thanks in part to a 8-0 run in the waning seconds of the second quarter punctuated by a Helen Chang’s 3-pointer at the buzzer for Walnut.

Jackie Heron scored a game-high 13 points (including eight unanswered to open the second half) and five rebounds for the Regents. Savannah Shelby tallied 10 points and three rebounds while Brittany Young added nine points Gold Okafor had a quiet night scoring, but contributed defensively by grabbing seven rebounds.

St. Lucy’s would open the second half on an 11-4 run of its own en route to a 25-17 second half to pull away for the victory.

Cheyenne Tate led the way for the mustangs, scoring 11 points and grabbing six rebounds. Corie Pitpit added 10 points in the losing effort.

St. Lucy’s next head into action as it travels to Los Altos for a non-league encounter Tuesday evening.

GLENDORA BOYS BASKETBALL TAKES FOURTH IN OWN TOURNAMENT

After eliminating the Walnut Mustangs from the winner bracket of the Pride of the Foothills tournament Wednesday evening 58-39, the Glendora High School boys’ basketball team dropped two games in the tournament to finish in fourth place. 

The Tartans, playing without leading scorer Nick Coletta dropped Friday’s semifinal game against Northview 55-42, and then was edged out by Don Lugo 49-48 in Saturday’s third-place game.

“Anytime you come into Glendora and beat Glendora, it's nice," Northview coach Ron Rice said. "We recognize they don't have (last year's leading scorer) Nick Colletta and a couple of other kids and that's hard for them."

Glendora led 40-33 at the half, but Northview answered back with a 15-0 run in the second half to pull away to steal the victory.