{"id":5180,"date":"2008-12-10T08:08:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/jordan-falls-while-poly-squeaks-by-in-tournament-of-champions\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:08:26","slug":"jordan-falls-while-poly-squeaks-by-in-tournament-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/jordan-falls-while-poly-squeaks-by-in-tournament-of-champions","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Falls While Poly Squeaks By In Tournament Of Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo52437.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>       It was a game that should have been much closer, and probably would have been if it were played later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>But when the Westchester Comets got hot, the Jordan Panthers fumbled opportunities away and let the game get out of hand in a 69-49 loss at the Tournament of Champions at Ocean View High last night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d love to play them again later in the season, because we&#8217;re not a bad team,&#8221; said Jordan coach Ron Massey after the game.&nbsp; &#8220;Weve got some good guards, we just went into a shell and couldn&rsquo;t get out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan trailed by just three at the half, 29-26, and even scored the first six points of the second half.&nbsp; But perennial power Westchester soon took a seven-point lead, and when Jordan called a timeout to stop the bleeding, the Comets didn&#8217;t let up.&nbsp; Back-to-back-to-back turnovers led to Westchester buckets, and by the end of the third quarter the Panthers trailed by 22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weve got a lot to learn from this one,&#8221; coach Massey said.&nbsp; &#8220;Good guardplay, taking care of the ball, all of the things we did well against Harvard-Westlake, we couldn&rsquo;t do tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Westchester&#8217;s Dominique O&#8217;Connor led the game with 26 points, while Jordan&#8217;s Stephan Heard led the Panthers with 11 and five boards.<\/p>\n<p>In an afternoon contest, Long Beach Poly survived with a 63-61 overtime victory over Peninsula behind 15 from senior guard Alex Carmon.&nbsp; The Jackrabbits built an early lead and withstood an onslaught by Peninsula guard Reese Morgan, who almost single-handedly forced overtime but couldn&#8217;t score the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Jackrabbits advance to a difficult game against home team Ocean View, tonight at 6:30pm.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/Number50.jpg\"   \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stephan Heard played strong down low.<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/BernardTaylor.jpg\"   \/><\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Panther guard Bernard Taylor is undoubtedly fast and has the tools to succeed in the Moore League, but will need to cut down on turnovers.<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/Number2.jpg\"   \/><\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Panther Will Ervin has the size and skills to impress at two-guard &#8211; contributing nine points and four rebounds &#8211; and he&#8217;ll need to be more visible when Jordan needs to come from behind.<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/Sports\/Picture10.jpg\"   \/><\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Much of this sloppy game was spent on the floor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\">  body {  \tbackground: #FFF;  }  <\/style>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panthers were blown out by Westchester as Poly snatched a two-point win from Peninsula in the tourney quarterfinals.<\/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-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}