SAN JOSE —This postseason is all about redressing previous wrongs and disappointments for the Archbishop Mitty ladies basketball workforce.
One down, two extra to go.
Mitty utilized its potential to provide you with offensive rebounds and get a number of pictures on a possession to tug out a 53-45 win Saturday over Clovis West in a CIF Northern California Open Division semifinal at Mitty.
The win avenged a loss to Clovis West within the 2017 Open Division state championship recreation.
“We beat them in December, they beat us in March,” Mitty coach Sue Phillips stated of the sport 5 years in the past. “You understand how that goes. You’d a lot reasonably commerce these two video games, however they have been a improbable workforce.”
Now the Monarchs get an opportunity to make amends for a more moderen defeat once they play at No. 1 seed Carondelet on Tuesday for the NorCal Open Division championship. The one loss for Mitty (29-1) this season was to Carondelet, 61-50, on Dec. 29.
“Now we have gotten significantly better as a workforce since then,” stated senior guard Noemie Bariteau, who led Mitty with 17 factors in opposition to Clovis West. “We all know one another so significantly better.”
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A win in that recreation would ship the Monarchs to the Open Division state championship recreation, an expertise that six members of the present workforce have been denied in 2020. The workforce was scheduled to play La Jolla Nation Day for the state Open Division championship when the event was halted because of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We're pumped,” stated Bariteau, a sophomore on that workforce.
The Monarchs typically take pleasure in an enormous possession benefit on account of their rebounding prowess and skill to drive turnovers with a trapping protection. Clovis West (28-4) was in a position to deal with the press higher than most groups have, however Mitty put up 13 extra pictures than the guests (60-47) because of its propensity to get second, third, and even fourth pictures on a possession.
“We positively wish to pound the glass as a lot as we are able to as a workforce,” stated sophomore Morgan Cheli, the West Catholic Athletic League Participant of the Yr, who had 15 factors and a team-high 9 rebounds Saturday.
Clovis West had a 14-10 lead on the finish of the primary quarter.
“We simply reminded ourselves that it’s a 32-minute recreation,” Phillips stated.
Mitty turned the sport round and had a four-point lead at halftime, largely on account of hoisting 20 pictures within the second quarter in comparison with 9 for the Golden Eagles. 4 of Mitty’s six area targets within the quarter have been on putbacks — one every by Bariteau, Cheli, Makayla Moore and Layla Woods.
Clovis West tied it at 25-25 early within the third quarter earlier than Maya Hernandez (7 factors, 7 rebounds) scored down low and Bariteau hit a 3-pointer. The guests by no means received nearer than 4 the remainder of the way in which.
Phillips made some extent of singling out the efficiency of defensive stopper Haley Hernandez.
“Haley along with her protection doesn't get sufficient credit score,” Phillips stated. “When you take a look at all of the groups we’ve performed, we’re holding their high scorer nicely under their common and it’s a credit score to Haley’s protection. She guarded their quantity 23 (6-foot junior Etoyah Montgomery), (Pinewood’s) Elle Ladine and (San Ramon Valley’s) Natalie Pasco.”
Sophomore guard Athena Tomlinson led Clovis West with 17 factors.