From LBPOSTSports.com: “The bottom line is, we get to go back to the regional championship,” said Poly coach Carl Buggs after his team’s 44-38 win over Troy. “It wasn’t pretty, but we won, and that’s what matters.”
It’s safe to say that when your team scores nearly 40% of its points off free throws; when they turn the ball over more than twenty times; when your All-American scores just three points; and when you come away from the second and third quarters with 11 points (and just two converted field goal attempts); well, then it wasn’t just “not pretty,” it was downright ugly. But as coach Buggs said, an ugly win is still a win, and the Jackrabbits will now advance to face Colony, who upset Cajon last night, in the CIF regional championship on Saturday, at UCLA at 6pm. The winner of that contest will head north to Sacramento for the state final.
Last night’s game started well for the Jackrabbits, as they committed only three turnovers in the first quarter, hopping out to an 8-0 lead (just like the last time these two teams played a few weeks ago), and finishing the quarter up 15-8, largely on the strength of Brittany Wilson’s 10 first-quarter points (she finished with 17). “I looked to get after it from the jump,” Wilson said after the game. “I wanted to come out aggressively and try to help get a lead.” The lead came in handy, as the Warriors would spend the last three quarters of the game gnawing into it, ultimately only managing to whittle a point off when the final buzzer sounded.
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