Griffins blow lead, fall to Mesa in OT

By Bill Dickens
Updated: January 14, 2017

Grossmont and Mesa are set to tip-off Friday at Grossmont College.

2016-17 GROSSMONT COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL

By Bill Dickens
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EL CAJON (1-14-17) — San Diego Mesa College scrambled to a 68-65 overtime victory over Grossmont College in Friday’s (Jan. 13) contest to open Pacific Coast Athletic Conference-South play.

Mesa (3-14) trailed 44-30 in the first half.

Grossmont fought back to tie the game by intermission at 60-60.

The teams dribbled into overtime with the Olympians taking an 8-5 lead to pull out the victory.

DAVID WHEELER paced the Griffins with 22 points. He was 6 for 19 from the floor and 7 for 8 from the free throw line. He also dropped in 3 treys and snared 5 rebounds.

RONALD BLAIN added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Griffins.

Grossmont shot just 35 percent to the Olympians’ 45 percent.

Next up for the Griffins is a bout with San Diego City College on Wednesday (Jan. 18) at City at 5 p.m. It will be the third meeting between the two teams, and the Knights have won the first two.

Grossmont has now lost five-straight games. The Griffins’ bench outscored the starters, 45-20.

San Diego Mesa at Grossmont
@ El Cajon, CA
1/13/2017 at 7:00 PM

San Diego Mesa
68

Grossmont
65

FINAL	1	2	OT	T
San Diego Mesa (3-14)	30	30	8	68
Grossmont (8-9)	44	16	5	65

#	STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
San Diego Mesa
00	Armstrong Ojunkwu	39	5-15	0-1	1-5	4	5	9	2	0	1	2	3	11
11	Huthifah Abdel Jawad	28	1-6	1-4	0-0	0	5	5	0	0	0	2	0	3
21	Kajahn Patton	43	6-13	3-5	0-1	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	3	15
22	James Rouser	39	3-6	1-2	0-0	1	1	2	0	4	1	2	5	7
30	Kaleb Palmar	33	2-4	1-2	4-4	2	6	8	1	0	0	3	4	9
#	RESERVES	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
03	Cody Crumsey	12	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	4	2
04	Connell Warren	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Sean Walker	31	7-9	1-1	6-9	2	9	11	2	1	1	5	3	21
TM	Team					0	3	3				2	0
TOTALS			25-55 45.5%	7-16 43.8%	11-19 57.9%	9	33	42	8	6	3	17	22	68

#	STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Grossmont
04	Corwin Feerick	17	0-4	0-1	3-6	1	7	8	1	2	0	1	4	3
05	Daniel McCown	25	1-4	0-3	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
10	Josh Moran	28	1-7	1-5	1-2	1	2	3	2	0	1	0	2	4
11	Bryce Parsons	40	3-7	0-0	2-5	2	4	6	3	2	0	1	1	8
22	Jonny Schirer	24	1-5	1-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	3
#	RESERVES	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
00	D’Aubre Doucette	12	0-1	0-1	0-1	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0
15	Oscar Limon	24	4-7	0-1	1-5	2	2	4	3	3	0	3	3	9
20	Ronald Blain	19	4-5	0-0	2-4	5	5	10	1	1	0	1	3	10
23	David Wheeler	24	6-19	3-12	7-8	3	2	5	0	0	0	2	1	22
25	LeAndre Powell	12	2-3	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	4
TM	Team					0	2	2				1	0
TOTALS			22-62 35.5%	5-25 20.0%	16-31 51.6%	14	27	41	12	8	2	11	19	65

SAN DIEGO MESA	TEAM STATISTICS	GROSSMONT
45.5% ( 25-55)	Field Goal %	35.5% ( 22-62)
43.8% ( 7-16)	3pt Field Goal %	20.0% ( 5-25)
57.9% ( 11-19)	Free Throw %	51.6% ( 16-31)
42	Rebounds	41
8	Assists	12
17	Turnovers	11
7	Points off Turnovers	12
6	2nd Chance Points	7
20	Points in the Paint	20
0	Fastbreak Points	6
23	Bench Points	45
3	Largest Lead	19
2nd-02:22	Time of Largest Lead	1st-01:48
Ties: 5; Lead Changes: 3