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Boys Basketball: Castro Valley Advances to NCS Championship with 64-41 Rout of Newark Memorial
The Trojans will play De La Salle Friday night for the section title.
Castro Valley 64, Newark Memorial 41
The Star: Chris Read scored 14 points, and even brought down the hoop with a dunk in the fourth quarter.
The Turning Point: Castro Valley trailed once in the first quarter, but got the lead back seconds later and never looked back.
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The Quote: “Newark has had our number the past couple of years. It was a total team effort. They were tough. They were gritty. It was wild,” Trojans coach Nick Jones said.
What’s Next: Castro Valley will play De La Salle for the NCS title Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga.
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Bottom Line: The NCS Championship pits two defensive powerhouses against one another for local bragging rights.
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The Washington High gym boasts that the Fremont school is the home of the Huskies.
However, the boys basketball team made it their house on its way to the North Coast Section championship game last night.
The Trojans dominated Newark Memorial, clinching a spot in the section title game with a 64-41 victory over the Cougars Wednesday night.
“Newark has had our number the past couple of years,” Castro Valley coach Nick Jones said. “It was a total team effort. They were tough. They were gritty. It was wild.”
The Trojans used six first quarter steals to pull away early. Alex Foster grabbed an early steal and hooked up with Juan Anderson for an easy slam dunk. Anderson would later dunk it in again on a similar play from Warren Wright, which put Castro Valley up 18-6. The Trojans would finish with 13 steals for the game.
“We didn’t want them to have easy baskets,” Jones said. “We knew we had better athletes so we wanted to press them. We just wanted to get our hands in the passing lane. We really made it difficult for them.”
Paths to the basket were few and far in between for Newark. The Cougars were only able to score 13 first half points due to the Trojans stifling defense. The half was capped with a Dawson Johnson reverse over-and-under layup that gave Castro Valley a 31-13 lead going into the second.
A 21-point third quarter for the Trojans put the game away for good, as they took an insurmountable 52-25 lead into the fourth quarter.
Chris Read led Castro Valley with 14 points, including a rim-rattling dunk late in the fourth quarter that brought down the entire hoop. Roderick Bobbitt had 13 and both Foster and Anderson chipped in 12.
Newark coach Craig Ashmore was proud of his team’s effort.
“Give the kids credit. They battled but they (Castro Valley) deserved it,” he said. “There was a tremendous amount of effort, all the kids did good.”
The win by the No. 1-seeded Trojans sets up a match with No. 2-seeded De La Salle on Friday at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga.
Anderson doesn’t care what team they have to play – he just wants to come out on top.
“I don’t care who we see, I just want to win,” he said.
Castro Valley 64, Newark Memorial 41
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Individuals — (fg ftm-fta tp)
Livermore
Rowland 1 1-2 3, Norris 2 0-0 5, Frenchwood 1 0-0 3, Andrews 7 4-8 18, Jones 1 1-2 3, Turner 1 0-0 2, Banford 0 0-3 0. Totals 16 6-9 41.
California
3-point goals: Frenchwood, Johnson, Anderson
Fouled out: None
Records: Newark Memorial 22-6, Castro Valley 27-1.
North Coast Section playoffs, semifinal, boys basketball, 1/28/11
