HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP : Pirates Add a Slip to El Camino’s Slide

When your record is 2-16 and the losses are coming in bunches of five, it is hard to pinpoint your frustrations on one or two games. But El Camino Coach Terry Scaife won’t forget this week. The Wildcats went down in two overtime games, both of which Scaife said his girls should have won.

Thursday’s defeat at home to rival Oceanside left a particularly bad taste in his mouth. Leading until the final 1:30 of regulation, the Wildcats lost, 45-42.

The Pirates improved to 4-16 by outscoring El Camino, 8-5, in overtime after Rachel Cummings made her only two baskets of the game--a pair of backboard-rattling bank shots. Oceanside pulled into a tie with El Camino for sixth place in the Avocado League. Both teams are 2-8.

“We’re young, but I can’t use that (excuse) anymore,” said Scaife. “They’ve got to grow up. They’re going through the motions right now. It’s frustrating.”

The loss came on the heels of the Wildcats’ 47-40 overtime defeat on Tuesday to the current Avocado leader, No. 2 Carlsbad. El Camino relinquished a lead in the final seconds in that one before collapsing in overtime.

“We played a tremendous game against Carlsbad,” said Scaife. “We had them beat, too. With 38 seconds left we scored to go ahead. But we scored too early and they tied it with nine seconds left and we couldn’t make a three-pointer.”

El Camino led, 21-11, at halftime Thursday and got a 23-point, 10-rebound performance from sophomore center Lisa Flores. Tina Clendening, a 6-foot-2 sophomore forward, added nine points and 11 rebounds. But the Pirates, led by Kristy Evans’ 16 points and Nyke Burnside’s 13, turned a three-point Wildcat lead with 90 seconds left into an Oceanside victory.

In other Avocado games

San Marcos 56, Ramona 36--San Marcos (10-9, 7-3) got 12 points each from Candice Fode and Leah Vague, and Tammy Hinrichs scored 26, including 18 in the first half.

Palomar League

Mt. Carmel 63, San Dieguito 21--Jennifer Alley, Kelly McGuire and Michelle O’Connor scored 10 points apiece for No. 4 Mt. Carmel (14-3, 9-1).

Fallbrook 38, Orange Glen 35--Jessica Paris hit two free throws with less than a minute to play to put Fallbrook up by two. Orange Glen then missed the front end of two one-and-one free-throw situations. Marcia Jefferies led Fallbrook (11-8, 6-4) with 11 points and Stacey Fordice had 12 rebounds. Carol Clinger had 12 points and Macina Smith 12 rebounds for Orange Glen (12-8, 6-4).

Rancho Buena Vista 49, Vista 45--The Longhorns (12-10, 6-4) trailed, 29-19, in the third quarter then went on a 20-0 run to lead for good. Jennipher Harris had 22 to spark RBV. Vista is 6-15, 0-10.

Metro Conference

Bonita Vista 52, Chula Vista 37--No. 7 Bonita Vista improved to 17-2, 10-0 getting 20 points from Mary Johenk 20.

Castle Park 51, Mar Vista 32--Delores Odom scored 26 points, three more than her average, to lead Castle Park (10-10, 4-6). Cynthia Agbunag had 11 points for Mar Vista (4-9, 2-8).

Nonleague

Bishop’s 64, Calvin Christian 44--Alexa Fontanini scored 27 points and Kaylie Orr 12 to lead the Knights (13-5). Kim Verhoeven had 14 for Calvin Christian.

El Capitan 46, Our Lady of Peace 43--Losing at halftime, 28-19, the Vaqueros saw their shots start to fall in the second half. Sophomore Stacie Terry scored 29 points for El Capitan (10-9). The Pilots (12-6) were led by Renee Ponce’s 15 points.

BOYS’ BASKETBALL

Coastal League

La Jolla Country Day 102, Army-Navy 49--The Torres (15-3, 6-0) topped 100 for the fourth time this year behind 27 points from Noah Katsell, 25 from Everett Alexander and 24 from Larry Cheng.