Griffins fly past Jets for first conference win of season

By ECS Staff
Updated: January 28, 2016

2015-16 GROSSMONT COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL

By Chris Davis
© East County Sports.com

EL CAJON (1-28-16) — “The first one is always the toughest,” Grossmont assistant coach KEVIN BUTTY said after the Griffins’ 66-46 victory over Miramar College on Wednesday (Jan. 27) at the Griffin Arena.

The Griffins (12-9, 1-2 PCAC North) led in nine of the 12 team stats in the victory. The only three stats that the Green and Gold trailed in were turnovers (18 to Miramar’s 17), points off turnovers (19 to Miramar’s 22) and points in the paint where Miramar outscored Grossmont 24-16.

Through the first six and three-quarter minutes of the game, the teams were trading baskets with neither team having more than a two-point advantage. It wasn’t until a KAELEN MITCHELL (Helix) 3-pointer at the 11:45 mark and a CORWIN FEERICK (University City) layup did either team really have control of the game. After that Mitchell three, the Griffins never trailed in the remaining 39 minutes and took charge of the game.

Three Griffins reached double-figures with REMY LAWYER (Gold Coast, Australia) having a team-high 15 points. Mitchell had 12, as did LEANDRE POWELL (Eastlake) who scored his dozen coming from off the bench. Powell had half of Grossmont’s 24 bench points, compared to Miramar’s seven.

Stefan Zivkovic led Miramar (9-13, 0-2 PCAC North) with a double-double of 19 points (game-high) and 10 rebounds.

Grossmont had a 13-rebound advantage over the Jets. In conjunction with that, the Griffins also had a six-point advantage (11-5) in second chance points.

Wednesday night was interesting in the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference as the Griffins were the only PCAC home team (Imperial Valley, San Diego Mesa, Palomar and Grossmont) to win out of the four conference games that were played.

On Friday (Jan. 29), the Griffins will travel to take on cross-division matchup against San Diego Mesa at 5:00 p.m.

San Diego Miramar at Grossmont
@ Grossmont College
1/27/2016 at 6:00 PM

San Diego Miramar
46

Grossmont
66

FINAL	1	2	T
San Diego Miramar (9-13, 0-2)	20	26	46
Grossmont (12-9, 1-2)	38	28	66

#	STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
San Diego Miramar
3	Johnny Peterson	33	2-11	2-10	0-0	2	3	5	0	1	0	3	1	6
10	Brice Robell	29	1-6	0-1	2-2	1	4	5	0	0	0	1	4	4
12	Deejay Brown	40	1-9	0-5	0-0	1	3	4	4	1	0	4	3	2
21	Joaquin Rabelo	26	4-8	0-3	0-1	0	5	5	1	3	0	2	1	8
33	Stefan Zivkovic	36	8-18	1-1	2-3	2	8	10	2	2	0	2	5	19
#	RESERVES	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
5	Braxton Latt	21	1-5	0-1	1-2	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	1	3
20	Christion Johnson	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Nikola Zivkovic	15	2-5	0-1	0-0	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	5	4
TM	Team					0	0	0				0	0
TOTALS			19-62 30.6%	3-22 13.6%	5-8 62.5%	7	26	33	7	8	0	17	20	46

#	STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Grossmont
1	Remy Lawyer	28	6-10	0-0	3-3	2	4	6	2	0	0	2	1	15
4	Marcos Meza	23	1-3	0-1	2-2	1	4	5	3	1	0	1	1	4
5	Daniel McCown	27	2-11	2-9	0-0	0	3	3	2	2	0	0	1	6
15	Spencer Vering	20	1-5	0-1	3-5	2	5	7	0	1	3	3	5	5
23	Kaelen Mitchell	29	4-11	3-9	1-2	0	8	8	0	1	2	3	1	12
#	RESERVES	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
11	Corwin Feerick	23	2-5	1-3	0-0	2	3	5	1	1	3	3	3	5
20	Larry Stokes	16	2-4	1-1	0-0	1	2	3	1	0	0	2	1	5
24	Luke Jackson	21	1-2	0-0	0-1	0	2	2	3	2	1	2	1	2
25	LeAndre Powell	15	2-3	0-0	8-12	1	6	7	1	2	0	2	1	12
TM	Team					0	0	0				0	0
TOTALS			21-54 38.9%	7-24 29.2%	17-25 68.0%	9	37	46	13	10	9	18	15	66

SAN DIEGO MIRAMAR	TEAM STATISTICS	GROSSMONT
30.6% ( 19-62)	Field Goal %	38.9% ( 21-54)
13.6% ( 3-22)	3pt Field Goal %	29.2% ( 7-24)
62.5% ( 5-8)	Free Throw %	68.0% ( 17-25)
33	Rebounds	46
7	Assists	13
17	Turnovers	18
22	Points off Turnovers	19
5	2nd Chance Points	11
24	Points in the Paint	16
10	Fastbreak Points	4
7	Bench Points	24
2	Largest Lead	21
1st-19:25	Time of Largest Lead	2nd-19:38
Ties: 2; Lead Changes: 5