Mounties edge out PCC 91-86
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The Mt. SAC men’s basketball battled for a tough 91-86 conference win against the Pasadena City College Lancers on Wed., Jan. 27. at Mt. SAC gym.
Mountie guard Antonio Biglow stepped up offensively again putting up a 30-point night going 4-for-10 from behind the 3-point line while Demarkus Isomjones had a strong offensive night as well with 18 points of his own.
Isomjones said, “I’ve always been a scorer,” and that the Mounties’ team has been doing so well that there hasn’t been too much pressure for him to score
The game started with Biglow providing the first eight points of the game, his streak highlighted by a made three-pointer immediately followed by a steal on the full court press, a behind the back fake to clear the path for an easy layup.
Seven minutes into the game, with the Mounties pressing, they forced PCC to turnover the ball several times as the Mounties capitalized by going up 24-16 early.
After leading most of the half, the Lancers tied the game at 28-28 with seven minutes left in the half. Both teams traded buckets the rest of the half as neither team took more than a four point lead. The Mounties took a slim 41-40 lead going into halftime.
Mountie guard Antonio Biglow glides around a PCC defender on the baseline as he looked to make a difficult layup. - Photo by Sherazad Shaikh
With 8:45 to play the Mounties took a 18-point lead at 71-53 and they had control over the game offensively and defensively.
“We did a better job at the defensive end,” Mounties head coach Allen Caveness said.
However PCC took advantage of costly Mountie turnovers. The Lancers slowly chipped away at the Mountie lead going eventually making the score 68-77 and forcing Caveness to call a timeout.
“We took some bad shots at the end and didn’t take care of the basketball,” Caveness said. “We just got to do a better job at maintaining a lead.”
In the final three minutes of the game, PCC kept trading threes for twos and chipped the lead to four at 78-82.
PCC’s Terrell Jones missed two big free throws that could have cut the lead to two, but they never got closer as Biglow put the game away after driving into the paint, applying a spin move on the defender and elevating over PCC’s Elliot Berry for a floater that gave the Mounties an 86-80 lead.
Other notable performances came from Laquenten Jones who had 14 points, six assists and five steals and Kaimyn Priut who came down with 10 rebounds and two blocked shots.
Isai Rocha
Sports Editor
