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The Wilson Bruins were successful taking the Poly Jackrabbits out of their offense Friday evening, but the ‘Rabbits were still good enough to get by, winning 55-33 to improve to 2-0 in Moore League play. <\/span>After their tough loss to Millikan on Wednesday, the Bruins are now 0-2.<\/p>\n \n The Jackrabbits sprinted out to a 14-4 lead in the first, behind strong performances from Brittany Wilson and Monique Oliver, who combined for 11 in the opening period, including five free throws from Oliver (she was 6-for-8 on the night). <\/span>Then in the second, the Poly offense stalled, as the Bruins moved to a collapsed zone that forced Poly to take a lot of perimeter shots, which weren’t falling—Poly scored just seven points in the second, to Wilson’s five. <\/span>“Moore League teams know you as well as you know yourself,” said Poly coach Carl Buggs after the game. <\/span>“They forced us to take outside shots, and we weren’t hitting them. <\/span>We need to be more patient, and not have our guards just sit back.”<\/p>\n In the second half, Poly scored 33 (compared to just 22 in the first half), and held the Bruins to 19 en route to the victory. <\/span>Leaders for the ‘Rabbits were Oliver, with 14, and Brittany Wilson, with 13—Thaddesia Southall also contributed with ten second-half points. <\/span>For the Bruins, it was Tiffany Baily with nine, and Ciarra Ford with six. <\/span>Poly’s next game will be on the road Monday in the hostile Millikan gym, for a rematch of last year’s upset. <\/span>The Bruins will host Cabrillo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite being stifled defensively for stretches, Poly managed a 55-33 win over the visiting Wilson Bruins.<\/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-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","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=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}