Girls Can Hoop Shootout running late

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With something like seven or eight games, including some JV games, I didn’t hold much hope that tonight’s marquee game at the Girls Can Hoop Shootout between No. 5 Millikan and No. 16 Cajon would start on time at 8 p.m. And I wasn’t disappointed.

In the game preceding the main event, Bell Gardens sent its game against St. Matthias into overtime, 46-46. Margarita Aguirre, who is about the only person on the team that can make a free throw, converted two with seven seconds left, and poor Vanessa Ruelas of SM missed what would have been a game winning layup at the buzzer. It would have been her first points of the game.

It’s costly, too. Four minutes later, Bell Gardens has a 53-48 victory. I didn’t see the whole game, but I saw enough to know that the missed layup at the end of regulation isn’t the sole reason SM lost the game.

The 8 p.m. game will start in about five minutes, only 40 minutes late. To be honest, I thought they might be running an hour behind.

-- Martin Henderson

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