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As the month of February comes to a close and March rapidly creeps up, the HS Girls and Guys will pick up where they closed out a pretty good month [Read more...]

High School Update

The Girls Who Provide Pressure!

Lead by senior Janell Gabb and junior Tiffany Kho, the girls program showed steady improvement throughout the season. The team competed in the 17u division for most of the season to prepare them for the month of July. The Oregon tournament proved to be a heck of a test for the girls from Cali, who showed pretty well while playing shorthanded and young.

With a few of the girls getting  interest from various colleges we’ll see what happens in the next few months as their high school season gets underway.

Behind the athletic senior Micah Shirley who was also an All-CIF Southern Section standout in football, the Guards put together a winning campaign that included a Santa Fe League championship. It was Bell-Jeff’s first league title in 13 years.

With that success, it’s not surprising that Bell-Jeff had five athletes who were honored on the all-league list. Leading the way was Shirley, who earned Santa Fe League Player of the Year honors.

“They had a really hard time stopping Micah in league,” first-year Bell-Jeff Coach Julian Andrade said. “He put up some pretty good numbers this season.

“But to have five of our guys honored is pretty unexpected. And three of those players are going to be back for next year, and I will have a year to work with them.”

Shirley averaged 16.6 points a game and scored 24 in a game against St. Genevieve on Feb. 10 to help the Guards secure the league crown.

Making the all-league first team were  junior guard Elijah Reed and sophomore guard Brandon White. Senior guard Mario Marquez and sophomore guard/forward Connor Linquist were second-team honorees.

“What really helped us this season was our defense,” Andrade said. “And three of our guys who made all-league, Elijah, Brandon and Mario, were really the ones who helped lead the defense for us.”

The Guards (12-13) couldn’t carry over their success in league into the CIF Southern Section playoffs, as No. 14 Bell-Jeff was defeated in the first round by Chadwick, 58-56.

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Everything is bigger in Texas!

Texas Beat Down!!

It wasn’t nice it wasn’t pretty, it was an old fashioned beat down. Texas Elite was bigger, faster and on this day they were better than the boys from sunny southern cal, it was quite obvious that Team Pressure was still on Cali time or vacation.
From the start to the finish Team Texas ran by the much slower Pressure guys who couldn’t keep up as they watched their opponent get fast break layups the entire game. Pressure must quickly regroup as they get ready for a hungry Kansas team.

The second game provided little relief as the Celtics gang, jumped out to a first half lead of 31 to 9. Even being down by such a large half time deficit coach James and Else believed that they could still win. Else told his much under sized team, if we can get some consecutive stops we could chip away at the lead. The first 8 points of the second half was scored by a smaller scrappier group, the guys fought hard but eventually the clock had no tics left, final score 41to 33.

Now going into bracket play Pressure matched up against the number one seed out of Oklahoma. With another early start it took the guys took a moment to get going. When the final buzzer sounder the results were the same, one more loss for the guys from So. Cal

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