Youth Serves Camarillo Well in Title Game : Harbour’s 30 Lead Scorpions Over Thousand Oaks, 64-49

Camarillo High’s David Harbour, one of the most highly regarded sophomores in the Valley area, lived up to his reputation in the championship game of the Thousand Oaks tournament Thursday night.

Harbour, the son of Scorpion Coach John Harbour, scored a game-high 30 points as Camarillo defeated the host Lancers, 64-49, at Thousand Oaks High.

Harbour made only 8 of 18 field-goal attempts, but he did little else wrong as the Scorpions (6-2) took control of the game in the second quarter and never let up.

The score was tied, 11-11, after a period, but Camarillo opened the second quarter with a 15-4 run and led, 26-15, with 1:55 left in the half.

Harbour scored 7 points during the run, capped by a 3-point shot with a little less than 2 minutes to play.

Harbour, 6 feet, 1 inch, played taller on the boards, grabbing 13 rebounds to go along with 5 assists and 4 steals. He made 10 of 14 free throws and 4 3-point baskets.

“Our defense really confused them,” Harbour said after being named the tournament’s most valuable player. “They expected us to come out in a man-to-man and we played a zone and packed it in inside instead.”

Although Harbour and Co. only forced 14 Thousand Oaks turnovers, the Lancers were never able to get comfortable in their set-up offense, hitting only 19 of 55 (35%) field-goal attempts.

Camarillo was only slightly better, hitting 18 of 43 shots (42%). But the Scorpions made 21 of 28 free throws. Thousand Oaks made 11 of 17 free throws.

All-tournament selections Rick Schnell and Frank Dews scored 13 and 11 points, respectively, for Camarillo.

Forward John Bushart, another all-tournament selection, led Thousand Oaks (4-3) with 18 points.

Darren McMaster, who had just 4 points, also was selected to the all-tournament team.

Newbury Park 85, Pioneer 73--Before the tournament began, sophomore forward Chris Falzone was a Panther reserve. But after scoring a career-high 33 points in his third game as a starter, it is unlikely that he will see much pine time in the future.

Falzone, who was starting in place of the injured Anthony Rutter, upstaged renowned teammate Wayne Cook (30 points) with his performance.

Cook, who said earlier in the week that Falzone was “instant offense, a pure scorer,” saw his prophecy come true against Pioneer (3-2).

After scoring 17 and 9 points in the first 2 games of the tournament, the 6-2 Falzone exploded for 14 third-quarter points against the Titans.

Newbury Park (7-1) trailed, 56-55, with 20 seconds left in the third period, but Falzone’s 2 foul shots gave the Panthers a 57-56 lead at the end of the quarter.

The Panthers would never trail again.

Pioneer tied the score, 64-64, with 5:36 to play on Abel Bravo’s 2 free throws, but Falzone countered 15 seconds later and the Titans never got closer than 4 points after that.

In addition to the scoring of all-tournament selections Falzone and Cook, Amir Elfarra added 16 points for Newbury Park.

Oxnard 46, Agoura 40--Dennis Holloway scored 10 of his game-high 14 points in the fourth quarter as the Yellowjackets rallied to win the consolation championship.

Holloway made 2 free throws to tie the score, 40-40, with 4:22 to play, and teammate Sal Ledesma hit 1 of 2 free throws 40 seconds later to give Oxnard (3-3) the lead for good.

Sean Martin led Agoura--which failed to score in the last 4:25--with 13 points, and teammate Jeff Ingalls added 10.

Ledesma had 13 points and Josue Fernandez added 11 for Oxnard.