Livermore: Cowboys’ victory won the first NCS victory in over 30 years
Although he has not won a 12 -year league match, Livermore has accomplished something he had not done for a long time.
After defeating n ° 9 San Marin 71-61 at home on Tuesday evening, the Cowboys qualified for the quarter-finals of Division III of the NCS where they will play Branson on Friday. According to Livermore coach Mike Tripp, it is the first victory in the playoff series that Livermore had in more than 30 years.
“All the culture here has changed,” Tripp at Bay Area News Group told Bay Tuesday evening. “Children believe in themselves.
“The East Bay Athletic League is a difficult league, but I think it has improved for a match like tonight. I think it just tested us.
In the first season of Tripp as a chief coach, Livermore made a complete reversal.
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Livermore has not won more than 10 games since 2014. The same year, Livermore went to the NCS qualifiers, but was rebounded in the first round by Las Lomas. It was the only appearance of cowboys in playoffs in the Maxpreps era (since 2004).
This season, Livermore has won its first eight games and totaled 13 in game without league. While his EBAL victories sequence continued this season, the cowboys were much more competitive.
Livermore lost to California five in overtime, was on the two-digit room in the first half and fell to Granada only nine points.
Led by the first year striker Amari Chandler and the juniors Dylan Whery, CT Harper and Erik Schock, the Cowboys resisted the storm as a young team.
On Tuesday, Whery led the cowboys with 20 points, followed by Harper with 16 and Chandler with 13 and Shock with 12. Tripp said that he could not be happier from the community’s response.
“The stands have been packed,” he said. “I had to laugh because one of the students shouted:” The tripp coach, you are the goat “, it made me feel good and it is a reflection of our situation.”
Livermore will have a difficult test when he goes to Branson – a team that was in the Open NCS division last season – Friday at the College of Marin.
Tripp is convinced that the moment will not be too big for his players.
“We had players, so let’s take up the challenge,” said Tripp. “If you are ready, you prepare your children in the right direction and you make them believe in themselves, we can beat anyone.”
– Nathan Canilao
Berkeley: Grind does not stop before the match with St. Joe’s
Berkeley breathed easily Tuesday evening in the first round of the NCS qualifiers, buying Eureka 71-43 at home.
Now, the Jellowjackets will face the former enemy of the County Conference of West Alameda St. Joseph-our lady in the quarter-finals.
A stress -free eruption meant that Berkeley’s coach Mike Hudson was able to break the film by St. Joe early.
“I don’t really know about St Joe’s,” admitted Hudson. “They were in our league last year, but they changed leagues. But they seem to be a very good team. They won 20 games, so it’s going to be another difficult game for us. »»
Hudson said he wanted to watch a St. Joseph Lost match and another they won to broaden his screening report. He will share it with his players training on Wednesday.
“I already have a film about them,” said Hudson. I still plan. I try to do our job early. So I’m going to look at a lot more, because I was a little focused on Eureka this week. “”
Hudson thinks that his team can compete according to its recent performance against quality opponents such as Campolindo and Mgr O’Dowd. During the last month, the Jackets beat O’Dowd 69-65 in Oakland and 52-51 in Berkeley and lost 45-40 against Campo.
“We will do our homework on them, and we will try to find a plan that we can get a victory,” said Hudson. “But it’s a difficult team. They beat very good teams. These are the playoffs, so everyone is really hard. We are going to be ready. It’s going to be a road game. We are a little used to being on the road, and we are playing a good ball right now. »»
– Christian Babcock
O’DOWD: a new seeding formula brings strong opinions
The new eliminatory format, which has attracted the teams based mainly on the Maxpreps rankings, was supposed to create more competitive games. This was not the case in Oakland on Tuesday evening.
Mgr O’Dowd (15-8) rout American 72-33 in a 43-8 game at halftime, with the seeded n ° 2 in division I resembling an open division team. Madison Gordon recorded six blocks and Simdi Chukwu led the team by scoring 17 points.
The dragons played a difficult calendar and shared a WACC Foothill division title with the Open Piedmont participant, but the title champions of Division I of Division I were somehow included in the second level of the NCS qualifiers. Longtime coach Malik McCord said that adjustments were to be made.
“I don’t know what they were doing with sowing, and what was the justification,” said McCord, his solution being: “Do not depend on the computer, because it does not work.”
American coach Keith Ramee accepted, noting that he was not sure to know what Maxpreps criteria used to judge the teams. His Eagles (20-7), led by the score feeling in the second year Shirina Shi, finished fourth in the Mission Valley.
He added that he and his team had the greatest respect for the McCord program, and that they will root the dragons to win everything.
“There are a lot of teams that I thought I could play, and if you asked me a week ago, Mgr O’Dowd was not on this list of teams,” said Ramee.
– Joseph Dycus
Mt. Eden: Monarchs upset
Mount Eden can score in clusters, but on Tuesday, the goal was to slow down the match against a very athletic Christian team.
The strategy worked perfection while n ° 14 MT. Eden upset the No. 3 Cornerstone Christian at home 56-38 to qualify for the quarter-finals of Division III of the NCS.
“They are super athletic, so our goal was to ensure that we control the pace and that’s what we did,” head coach Sunny Aujla at Bay Area said on Tuesday evening.
According to Aulja, Mont Eden used an area and waited for the last seconds of the chronometer to pull the ball. The result was that the Hayward school maintained the attack on Cornerstone in failure of the night.
Cornerstone made sure to ensure the top scorer of the Eden amount, Johnson Tran, but the senior found ways to involve his teammates.
Lorenzo Matienzo had a 12 -point summit and the second -year gonzales have totaled 11.
Mount Eden will play n ° 5 San Rafael in the next round Friday.
“Players know we are not finished,” said Aulja. “They understand that we have to remain humble. It’s just a game and the next game really gives us a chance to move forward in several ways. So, I just hope that we keep the same goal with which we have entered today, and I hope we have the same result. »»
– Nathan Canilao
Northgate: three in a row
Before his team beats n ° 3 Campolindo 57-54 in the qualifiers for division I, the pre-match message of the Northgate coach, Brian McCoy, was entitled to the point of addressing His 14th seed broncos.
“Here is a team that we have already beat twice, and they still get the three seeds,” said McCoy. “So, wouldn’t it be good to make them fall and move forward?”
Northgate (20-9) managed one of the big upheavals of the night, eliminating the traditional Power Campo (19-9) in Moraga by organizing a return to the fourth quarter. Brady Gray made five points at 3 points and David Harris gave Northgate a three -point cushion with a breakaway swing with eight seconds to do.
Friday, n ° 6 Amador Valley, which eliminated Mgr O’Dowd in Pleasanton.
“We love these grainy games, and being the oppressed is a great motivation,” said McCoy.
– Joseph Dycus
Burzzer drummers
In Girls Division I, N ° 14 Montgomery traveled hundreds of kilometers north to Arcata and removed the stunning. … In the Boy’s Di, Acalanes n ° 7who has a 6 -inch Ryder Malm in the middle, will go to N ° 2 And facing Cal commits Semetri Carr. Will size triumph over the speed? … Bishop O’Dowd won the first boys’ title in the Open Division of the NCS in 2020. Campolindo captured the second open crown in the section in 2022, a year after the pandemic stop. Not only did neither open this season, but the two were eliminated Tuesday in the first round of the qualifiers in division I. N ° 10 Sonoma Valley went to N ° 7 Psein And beat the jets 57-49 to move forward in the DV qualifiers… N ° 10 Monte Vista withdraw N ° 7 James Logan 51-40 in the only upheaval of Division III girls.
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California Daily Newspapers
