Grant Goes Cold While Davis Gets Hot in 56-41 Loss

Stefon Davis waited for the right opportunity to unleash his first dunk Friday night in the City Section 3-A Division championship.

“I knew once I got a dunk, we’ve got a city championship,” the Jordan High forward said.

Davis got his dunk midway through the final period and Jordan got its championship, a 56-41 victory over Grant at the Sports Arena.

“He really did a job on us,” Grant Coach Howard Levine said. “He might be the best player in the 3-A.”

Most of the 12,133 in attendance would agree. Davis scored a game-high 29 points, including 13 in the second quarter. The 6-3 junior also had two booming jams in the fourth quarter--the first with 3:11 remaining gave Jordan a 16-point, championship-type lead.

“He hasn’t been stopped by any team yet,” Jordan Coach Roosevelt Wilson said.

Grant, which tied for first in the East Valley League, held Davis down in the first quarter, but he exploded in the second for 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting.

“The coach said I’ve got to get the ball so I can do my work,” Davis said. “I just went out and played smart.”

Davis added 14 points after intermission as the Bulldogs outscored Grant, 34-18.

“Jordan got really aggressive in the second half,” Levine said.

And the Lancers got really cold. After scoring 16 points in the second quarter to take a 23-22 halftime lead, Grant scored only four points in the third quarter and went scoreless for 9:43 of the second half.

“The same shots that we hit at the end of the third quarter didn’t fall in the third quarter,” Levine said. “The ball just wasn’t going in the hoop. We lost patience in our offense.”

Jordan (19-6) also played more aggressively then it had in the first half. The Bulldogs allowed Grant second opportunities on only three shots in the third quarter while they were hitting 7 of 14 and outscoring Grant, 15-4.

“We just shut down completely,” Grant forward Danny Enowitz said. Enowitz, who came into the game averaging 17.7 points and 8.4 rebounds, scored just 8 on 4-of-11 shooting and pulled down only 3 rebounds.

“I wasn’t into it. I hurt us a lot,” said Enowitz, who had a 100-degree fever Thursday. “I couldn’t do anything, basically.”

Both teams started slowly, shooting a combined 13% from the field in the first quarter.

Jordan, which finished third in the Pac-6 League, made only 3 of 22 shots. Grant (20-4) missed its first 8 shots and did not score its first point until 3:25 had elapsed.

But the Lancers made 6 of 13 second-quarter field goals to take a one-point halftime lead.

Grant forward Setro Terzian, a 6-1 sophomore, came off the bench to score a team-high 12 points.