Blog Transcript: De La Salle Comes Back to Knock off Castro Valley

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First quarter

6:46: Spartan's captain Duke Da Re draws the charge to maintain the 1-0 advantage. De La Salle 1-0.

5:23: Catro Valley's Juan Anthony gets on the board with two consecutive lay-ups. Castro Valley 4,De La Salle 1.

4:21: DLS' Benny Battle scores on a beautiful lefty drive. Castro Valley 4,De La Salle 3.

2:20: The Trojan's Chris Read with a tough and-1. Castro Valley 7,De La Salle 3.

1:50: Amadi Udenyi answers with a bucket for DLS. Castro Valley 7,De La Salle 5.

1:34: Anderson drops in 2-of-2 free throws. Casto Valley 9, De La Salle 5.

1:21: The Castro Valley full court press forces Spartan's coach Frank Allocco to call time-out.

.43: Udenyi with a nice up and under. Castro Valley 9,De La Salle 7.

.02: Castro Valley's Roderick Bobbitt ices a three to close-out the first quarter. Castro Valley 12, De La Salle 7.

1st Qtr: CV 12, DLS 7

Second Quarter

5:54: Read's over-the-back wipes away a CV basket. Castro Valley 13, De La Salle 7.

5:31: Castro Valley is staging a block party, swatting their 5th shot of the game and proving their length will cause problems for DLS. 

4:00: De La Salle scores on consecutive possessions to bring the Spartans within 4. Castro Valley 15, De La Salle 11

2:27: Bobbitt misses on an NBA range three but follows with a steal and coast-to-coast slam. Castro Valley 17, De La Salle 11

1:51: De La Salle's Travis Pacos comes away with the steal and while on the floor calls the timeout to maintain possession. Castro Valley 17, De La Salle 11

1:39: Pacos off arm (offensive foul) wipes a Trojan's basket. Castro Valley 17, De La Salle 11

.30: Pacos and Read exchange baskets. Castro Valley 19, De La Salle 13

Halftime: CV 19, DLS 13

At the half: Anderson leads Castro Valley with 6-points, while Bobbitt and Read each have 5. Great defensive half for both teams. The Trojan's 6-foot-2 guard Bobbitt has three blocks and is changing the game in the paint for CV.

In the rematch of the North Coast Section finals, De La Salle came into the contest determined to take care of the basketball. In their previous meeting, which resulted in a lopsided—60-42—victory for CV, the Spartans' turned the ball over 17 times. Tonight at Power Balance Pavilion (Formerly Arco Arena), DLS already has nine turnovers, compared to only seven for the Trojans. The CV pressure is starting to pay dividends... pressure bursts pipes.

Third Quarter

7:33: Elliot Pits scored on a nice feed from Udenyi. Castro Valley 19, De La Salle 15.

5:45: Udenyi feeds Morgan perfectly on the break for an easy fastbreak lay-in. CV 21, DLS 17

5:20: Trojans take on two from the line. CV 23, DLS 17

4:52: Pacos sinks a pair. CV 23, DLS 19.

4:10: Anderson misses an alley-oop dunk but tips in Bobbitt's follow. CV 25, DLS 19

3:11: Udenyi sneaks along the baseline to find Morgan again for the point blanc basekt. Read follows with an and-1. CV 27, DLS 21

2:00: Bobbitt and Anderson combine for a huge rejection. Anderson with a reverse lay-up. CV 29, DLS 21.

1:26: The Spartans' Pitts bottoms two from the line. CV 29, DLS 23.

De La Salle could easily get to the line with some pump fakes in the lane. The Trojans' are attempting to send-back every shot.

.00: In a wild final 12 seconds, Udenyi sinks a corner three. Bobbitt is called for a charge to wipe away a beautiful spinning lay-up and Pacos ducks in for a lay-up on the feed from Udenyi at the buzzer. CV 29, DLS 28.

Great teams close quarters strong.

Fourth Quarter

7:10: Pacos prevents a breakway lay-up for CV with a foul at half-court. Six team fouls on DLS. CV 29, DLS 28

6:20: Pacos drops a 17-footer to put DLS in the lead. CV 29, DLS 30

5:54: Pitts drives the ball strong to the basket and draws the shooting foul. Splits the free throws after the first on dangles on the rim for what feels like half-an-hour. CV 29, DLS 31.

5:31: Battle comes away with the steal and drives the ball full-court, before being rejected by Anderson on his lay-up attempt. However, Pacos grabs the rebound and on the put-back attempt is fouled. Pacos sinks 2 of 2. CV 29, DLS 33

4:30: Pacos breaks free on the CV press and scores a tough contested lay-up. Pacos scores again in the lane with a nice right handed shot. CV 29, DLS 37

CV is on a serious drought and cannot stop Pacos. 18-0 run DLS!!

3:42: Anderson and Pacos trade buckets. Pacos has scored 13 of the 18 points in the DLS 18-0 run. He has 19 in the game. CV 31, DLS 39

3:00: After a flurry of fastbreak action... CV 37, DLS 43.

1:45: Anderson throws in a smooth mid-range jumper. De La Salle answers in the lane with a PUMP FAKE and bucket by Duke Da Re. CV 39, DLS 45.

1:35: Anderson from Bobbitt. CV 41, DLS 45.

Under a minute: Da Re is flying all over the court to recover loose balls.

.35: Udenyi to the line for two. Calmly sinks the first... and the second. CV 41, DLS 47.

.21: After an unbelievably hard fought rebound, Pitts gathers the miss and goes to the line for two. Sinks them both. CV 41, DLS 49.

.10: Anderson flies in for the two-handed jam. CV 43, DLS 49.

.09: Pacos fouled and sent to the line. Chris Read fouls out. Double bonus. Pacos rattles out the first. Misses the second short.

.01: A desperation Anderson three clangs hard off the backboard.

DE LA SALLE WINS! Spartans go to the California state championship!

De La Salle 49, Castro Valley 43

The Spartans down yet another Northern California powerhouse. Unbelievable considering they were picked by many to finish under .500 at the beginning of the season.

Pacos has to be the MVP. He was the catalyst in the DLS second-half tear. For the second straight week the Spartans turned up the tempo in the second half to overcome large first half deficits to turn the table on longer, more athletic teams. Allocco dialed up the perfect press-breaks and and his team executed to perfect. 

Mater Dei is up next. One of the best high schools basketball teams in the country. I watched them trounce Austin Rivers' Florida team in a tournament on ESPN a few months back. But... Mater Dei will never see a more cohesive and better coached team than Concord's own De La Salle Spartans.

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