{"id":2196,"date":"2010-02-10T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/boys-bball-poly-wraps-up-crown-massey-gets-500th-w\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T06:07:00","slug":"boys-bball-poly-wraps-up-crown-massey-gets-500th-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/boys-bball-poly-wraps-up-crown-massey-gets-500th-w","title":{"rendered":"Boys’ BBall: Poly Wraps Up Crown, Massey Gets 500th W"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who said we wouldn’t have any drama in the last week of the season?  <\/span>Oh, that’s right\u2026we did.  <\/span>Well, the playoff seedings are as locked up as we thought they would be, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty of drama on the penultimate night of the 2009-2010 Moore League boys’ basketball season.<\/p>\n

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Poly 76, Cabrillo 51<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Jackrabbits are undefeated in Moore League play, and currently ranked no. 2 in CIF\u2014they didn’t want to jeopardize either status on their last home game of the regular season, but things were certainly up in the air at halftime, thanks to Christian Verdugo’s 15 first-half points, which put the Jags up 28-25 at intermission.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Poly got aggressive in the third, drawing nine Jaguar fouls, and scoring a lot of transition points\u2014they outscored Cabrillo 24-9 and never looked back.  <\/span>Robert Nixon, Jr. had 19 points, and Shelton Boykin had 18.  <\/span>Verdugo finished with 21 for the Jags, and Tony Bell scored 19.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The win clinches the Moore League crown for the Rabbits, their first since 2003.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Thanks to Tyler Hendrickson for the info!<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

Jordan<\/strong> <\/span>67, Wilson 49<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Massey had to miss out on the Century Club Banquet Tuesday night, where he was being given the Frank Vessels Junior Award, because he was too busy winning his 500th career game, in his 28th year coaching the Panthers.  <\/span>His son, Ron Massey, Jr., accepted the award on his behalf, while Massey collected a guarantee of the league’s three-seed, as well as the 500th-win honor.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Compton 73, Millikan 67<\/o:p><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rams needed to beat Compton on the road in their final game of the season to get their twelfth win, which would allow them to apply as a CIF wild card.  <\/span>They gave the league’s two-seed all they could handle, and led by four at halftime, but ultimately fell short.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Cliff Sims led the Tarbabes with 21, Anthony January had 16, and Alan Guei had 12.  <\/span>Leaders for Millikan were Malcolm Whittington (28 points, 22 in the first half), Andrew Scott (17 points) and Devon James (9 points).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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The Rabbits clinched the crown, Jordan’s Ron Massey got his 500th win, and Millikan’s playoff hopes ended at Compton on an eventful night of local basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}