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OAK HIGH SCHOOL / ROYAL OAK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL -
May 3, 2003 |
By
Sue Kim
After a win against the Schurr High School
Spartans faculty the past Wednesday, the Knights
hoped to keep that winning spirit alive as they
played at Charter Oak Intermediate School on
Saturday. To show the Knights their support,
Vanessa Lengies, Sarah Ramos, and company hosted
as the Hollywood Knights cheerleaders. They
definitely got the crowd hyped up for the game
with their cheers and dances; so much that Kiko
tried out his hand out at cheerleading with them
on his downtime during the game. The Knights
started out strong in the first quarter and
barely gave the faculty a chance to catch up.
Kiko was sent to the line three times within a
matter of seconds in the first period, a
consequence of being fouled. Romeo went for a two
point shot that ended up too long. Trevor did his
best to save the ball from going out of bounds
but his effort failed giving the ball to the
faculty. Dejai scored a two point shot for the
Knights and Arlen soon followed with the same. By
the end of the first, the Knights were up
significantly with a score of 17-31.
Kiko, Arlen, Trevor, Romeo, and Dejai were in for
the beginning of the second quarter. The faculty
had possession of the ball first but not long
before Arlen stole the ball and passed to Trevor
who then scored a two point shot. Trevor was
fouled early in the quarter and that sent him to
the line. Out of two free throws Trevor made both
putting the score at 17-37, Knights. Josh,
Wesley, Anthony, and Cylk were rotated in the
middle of the quarter to relieve their teammates
for a little while. There was a pass from Josh to
Cylk and then back to Josh as he moved into the
key but he was fouled as soon as the pass got to
him. After a faculty member made 2 attempts to
make a two point shot, Cylk blocked his shot,
sending the ball to Wesley who then made two
points. The faculty had the ball after a time out
and tried numerous times to get the ball in the
basket but failed. Soon after Anthony had the
ball and made a clean three point shot. At the
end of the second, Dejai was the last to put
points on the board and left the score at 36-52
at the buzzer ending the quarter.
Performances from The Nade and Jillian consisted
of tonight’s half time entertainment as well
as the ever so popular autograph signing. But it
wasn’t long before the start of the second
half of the game. Josh threw the ball into play
to an awaiting fan that then passed the ball to
Anthony. Cylk made the first to attempt to put
points on the board this period with a three
point shot but unfortunately missed. After
Anthony lost the ball after a steal from the
faculty, Wesley was on the floor trying to get
the ball back. After a faculty time out, a pass
from Cylk to Arlen ended up out of bounds. Kiko,
Romeo, Cylk all scored two and three point shots
for the Knights in this quarter before the period
ended with the score at 60-75.
The Knights started out strong in the fourth
quarter, not wanting to lose the strong lead they
already had. Arlen made two three point shots at
the start of the period while Josh and Trevor
scored two point shots. Trevor tried to block a
faculty member with the ball, which ended with
the faculty member on the floor. As Romeo went in
for two, he was fouled and sent to the line where
he made one of his two free throws. The faculty
struggled to make a shot near their basket and it
was Arlen that finally got the ball back for the
Knights. But the faculty certainly did a good job
of keeping up points wise. Within just the fourth
quarter, they had scored 21 points. As hard as
they tried, the Knights’ winning spirit was
still alive as they won tonight’s game with
a score of 81-96. |
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