Roundup: Anzar girls hoops upend York
Although they sit in third and fourth place in the Tri-County
Athletic League, respectively, San Benito and Alisal are at very
different points in the regular season – almost opposite ends.
Whereas the Lady Balers are all but guaranteed a spot in next
week’s Division I playoffs, the visiting Trojans needed a win on
Tuesday night at Hollister’s Mattson Gym to remain eligible.
And the sense of urgency in Alisal was obvious.
Roundup: Anzar girls hoops upend York
Although they sit in third and fourth place in the Tri-County Athletic League, respectively, San Benito and Alisal are at very different points in the regular season – almost opposite ends.
Whereas the Lady Balers are all but guaranteed a spot in next week’s Division I playoffs, the visiting Trojans needed a win on Tuesday night at Hollister’s Mattson Gym to remain eligible.
And the sense of urgency in Alisal was obvious.
“But we need to have that sense of urgency,” San Benito’s Victoria Aguilera said after the Lady Balers struggled to put away the Trojans early on Tuesday night. “If we want to do well in the playoffs, our enthusiasm needs to be up.”
After suffering through a disappointing second stanza, San Benito managed to finally pull away from Alisal in the final period on Tuesday when it outscored the Trojans by a 14-5 margin and posted its 19th win of the season in the process with a 44-29 victory.
It was a final score that did not necessarily reflect the overall game, however.
“They did a good job hounding my kids,” San Benito head coach David Kaplansky said of Alisal’s physical brand of basketball, which was not unlike San Benito’s style of play.
In a game that featured both extremes from San Benito – from all to nothing at all – the momentum gained by Alisal in the second nearly carried through the rest of the game.
But while San Benito displayed one extreme in the second quarter, it displayed the opposite in the second half. Just as quickly as Alisal garnered a slim halftime lead, San Benito swiped it away early in the third quarter behind plenty of long-range shooting from both Jackie Echaorre and Erin Glasspool.
Echaorre finished with 10 points off the bench, while Glasspool had nine, all of which came from behind the arc.
SBHS Boys Soccer
Salinas scored three times before San Benito got on the scoreboard on Tuesday, and the visiting Cowboys avenged January’s loss to the Balers with a 3-1 victory in Tri-County Athletic League play.
San Benito’s Ivan Martinez pocketed the team’s lone goal.
AHS Girls Basketball
Kelsey Robledo scored 19 points and pulled down 13 rebounds for yet another double-double performance, and the Anzar Hawks defeated host York 33-22 behind a strong second half on Tuesday night in Monterey.
Trailing the Falcons by an 8-5 margin at halftime, the Hawks outscored York in the third and fourth quarters 28-14.
Anzar, which was tied with York at 16-all entering the final period, pulled away late in the game after the Falcons got into foul trouble.
