COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Turnover Spoils Antelope Valley’s Plans

At worst, the coaching staff of the Antelope Valley College men’s basketball team figured the Marauders were looking at overtime in their Foothill Conference game against Mt. San Jacinto on Saturday night.

Seems reasonable enough. The score was tied, Antelope Valley had possession and one of the nation’s best shooters, J. R. Rider, had the ball in his hands.

A few moments later, however, the worst-case scenario played itself out as Antelope Valley lost, 69-67, at Mt. San Jacinto, snapping the Marauders’ 15-game conference win streak.

Antelope Valley’s Tony Madison set the stage by burying a three-point shot to tie the score, 67-67, with 21 seconds left. Mt. San Jacinto (6-11, 2-2 in conference play) then turned the ball over and Antelope Valley (13-4, 3-1) called a timeout with 11 seconds remaining.

Rider turned the ball over, however, and after a Mt. San Jacinto miss, Aaron Butler tossed in a follow shot at the buzzer.

In other men’s games:

Millikin 75, Occidental 74--Hung Duong’s layup pulled Occidental (6-5) within one with five seconds remaining, but Millikin (7-4) ran out the clock and clinched the championship of the Occidental Tiger Cage Classic.

Bakersfield 71, Oxnard 70--Bakersfield’s Willie Morofor scored on a layup with three seconds left to give Bakersfield the victory in a nonconference game at Oxnard.

Sean Talley (19 points) missed an 18-foot jump shot with less than a minute left to set up the winning basket by Morofor, who finished with just three points.

Don Mitchell had 19 points for Oxnard.

Cal Lutheran 90, College of the Ozarks 82--Jeff deLaveaga scored 44 points to lead the Kingsmen (5-5) to third place in the Westmont tournament. DeLaveaga, a 6-3 guard, set a tournament record with 80 points in two games.

Valley 82, Santa Barbara 55--Art Kirksey had 28 points and 16 rebounds to lead Valley (10-9) and teammate Russell Baldwin added 15 points and 12 rebounds in the Western State Conference interdivision game at Santa Barbara.

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Valley 71, Santa Barbara City 43--Katina Mines (12 points), Tisa Rush (11) and Claudia Rocha (12) all scored in double figures to lead Valley in a nonconference game at Santa Barbara.

Valley (16-3), ranked third in the state, connected on 37 of 57 shots from the field for a season-high 64%. Sylvia Castaneda had nine points, 14 assists and seven steals.

Ventura 65, Canyons 52--Vanessa Hackett and Lonnette Hall led Ventura in the Western State Conference interdivision game at Ventura with 18 and 16 points. Ventura (12-6), which led by nine at halftime and never trailed, extended its advantage over the Cougars (9-5) to as much as 21 in the second half.

Antelope Valley 59, Mt. San Jacinto 51--Paula Page scored a game-high 16 points and tied a career mark with 23 rebounds to lead visiting Antelope Valley (5-11, 2-1) in a Foothill Conference game.

Santa Monica 73, Moorpark 66--With forward Angie Long missing much of the first half because of foul trouble, Moorpark fell behind by nine points at intermission and could not recover.

Moorpark (18-3), ranked fourth in the state, pulled within two points late in the Western State Conference interdivision game but faded and lost its first home game.

Cal State Northridge 75, Iona 50--CSUN won its second game in a row in a nonconference contest at Northridge. Julie Arlotto led CSUN with 23.

Phillips (Okla.) 92, The Master’s 48--The Lady Mustangs committed 35 turnovers and made just 14 of 44 shots in the nonconference game at Master’s.