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It certainly wasn’t pretty on either end of the court, but after 32 minutes and 53 whistled fouls, Poly ended up with a 56-36 win over Jordan, in which they held the Panthers’ top two scorers without a field goal, and allowed just seven field goals overall.<\/p>\n
The Rabbits got out to a fast start, going up 11-1, and taking a 26-10 lead into halftime, having allowed just one field goal to that point. <\/span>“I think after we got that lead, we got a little complacent,” said Poly coach Carl Buggs. <\/span>In a sloppy third quarter that saw 16 fouls called, Jordan put another nine points on the board, as Poly pushed their lead to 42-19. <\/p>\n The Rabbits’ biggest advantage was inside, where they got a lot of points, and also shut down Jordan. <\/span>“They were bigger inside, and they took it to us there,” said Jordan coach Adara Newidouski, who had three of her bigs foul out of the game. <\/span>“A lot of the errors were unforced, and our fault\u2014we were 19-34 from the free throw line.”<\/p>\n Poly got big contributions from a deep bench, always a goal of Buggs’ in league contests. <\/span>Destiny King helped pound the ball inside, leading her team with 9 points, while Taijhe Kelly came off the bench to score eight straight in the third. <\/span>Sheila Boykin had five points and five boards, and Ashley Wilson had six boards. <\/span>Leaders for Jordan were India Burke, the fearless point guard, who had 12 points, and Ashlee Carswell had nine.<\/p>\n Poly visits Cabrillo, while Jordan will travel to Wilson next on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Come back tomorrow for a full league standings box!<\/span> In a 32-minute game with 53 fouls, Poly got contributions from a number of players and shut down Jordan’s top two scorers to earn a win.<\/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-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","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=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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