After fast start, Griffins lose opener to Jaguars

By Bill Dickens
Updated: January 7, 2016

2015-16 COMMUNITY COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL

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EL CAJON (1-7-16) — The Grossmont College Griffins men looked to start the New Year right with a win in their PCAC crossover encounter with the visiting Southwestern Jaguars. Unfortunately the Griffins couldn’t sustain momentum and dropped the contest 74-69, Wednesday (Jan. 6).

The Griffins in the first half started out strong offensively as they were able to jump out to double digit leads on multiple occasions with the high of 14 points with about 9 minutes left in the first half.

Despite being down by double digits for most of the first half the Jaguars were finally able to scrap away at the lead to get within 7 points with about 4:30 left. This would stay the trend the rest of the half as the Jaguars wouldn’t go away and ultimately only trailed 37-22 at the break.

In the first half the Griffins were led by MARCOS MEZA, CORWIN FEERICK and KAELEN MITCHELL who each chipped in 9 points. However, despite the offensive output it would be turnovers that would allow Southwestern to get back into the contest as Grossmont committed 8 in the first half compared to only 4 for the Jaguars.

Grossmont in the second half would again do their thing offensively as they would push their lead back to double digits 45-34 early in the half. Southwestern would then use a 6-0 run to pull within 45-41. Both teams would go back and forth and finally at the 9:00 minute mark, the Jaguars would take the lead 54-53.

Again both teams would go back and forth until about the five minute mark when the Jaguars would take the 63-61 lead, which they would not relinquish.

The Griffins did their darndest to get back into the ballgame and they would actually have a chance to tie it in the final thirty seconds as DANIEL McCOWN would miss the tying three point shot.

Despite the scoring by six players it would be the turnovers that would doom the Griffins as they committed 18 for the game compared to the 10 by the Jaguars. Southwestern also in the second half would shoot better from the field which included 6-13 from behind the arc.

Leading the scoring for the Griffins was Mitchell who rolled up 20 points, Meza would tally 19 points and McCown would chip in with 11 including 3 treys.

Southwestern at Grossmont
@ Grossmont College
1/6/2016 at 7:00 PM

Southwestern
74

Grossmont
69

FINAL	1	2	T
Southwestern (1-0, 9-6)	32	42	74
Grossmont (0-1, 9-5)	37	32	69

#	STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Southwestern
0	Damian Elam	26	6-8	3-4	3-3	2	3	5	2	2	0	0	2	18
1	Gamaun Boykin	27	1-5	0-0	1-2	1	4	5	3	2	0	2	3	3
3	DeLano Jones	37	7-14	4-9	4-4	1	7	8	2	1	0	5	2	22
14	Marlon Cort	34	7-19	2-7	0-4	4	2	6	0	2	0	2	1	16
20	Marcus Gladden	17	2-8	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
#	RESERVES	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
2	Raz Council	21	4-6	0-1	1-2	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	0	9
5	Travis Waller	3	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
13	Khalil Stevenson	15	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
21	Jacob Craig	6	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
32	Myles Thomas	13	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	2	0
TM	Team					0	0	0				0	0
TOTALS			28-69 40.6%	9-25 36.0%	9-15 60.0%	9	22	31	10	10	0	10	15	74

#	STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Grossmont
4	Marcos Meza	32	9-15	1-1	0-0	2	6	8	1	2	3	0	2	19
5	Daniel McCown	37	3-13	3-10	2-2	0	2	2	2	0	0	3	3	11
15	Spencer Vering	25	4-11	0-2	0-0	3	5	8	0	2	1	1	3	8
23	Kaelen Mitchell	35	7-13	2-6	4-5	2	5	7	0	1	0	5	3	20
24	Luke Jackson	33	1-4	0-1	0-1	0	5	5	7	0	0	4	0	2
#	RESERVES	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
11	Corwin Feerick	24	4-7	0-2	1-1	0	9	9	1	0	2	2	4	9
20	Larry Stokes	11	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	3	1	0
25	LeAndre Powell	3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TM	Team					0	0	0				0	0
TOTALS			28-63 44.4%	6-22 27.3%	7-9 77.8%	7	33	40	12	5	6	18	16	69

SOUTHWESTERN	TEAM STATISTICS	GROSSMONT
40.6% ( 28-69)	Field Goal %	44.4% ( 28-63)
36.0% ( 9-25)	3pt Field Goal %	27.3% ( 6-22)
60.0% ( 9-15)	Free Throw %	77.8% ( 7-9)
31	Rebounds	40
10	Assists	12
10	Turnovers	18
25	Points off Turnovers	7
7	2nd Chance Points	7
30	Points in the Paint	36
12	Fastbreak Points	2
11	Bench Points	9
7	Largest Lead	14
2nd-00:06	Time of Largest Lead	1st-09:18
Ties: 2; Lead Changes: 6