On Monday the Dons faced Las Lomas in yet another road league game. After the Knights senior ceremony, and in front of a large and excited home crowd, Las Lomas came out with some very hot shooting to take an early lead. The Dons tightened up their defense after the first quarter, holding Las Lomas without a field goal for 11 minutes and Acalanes pushed to a 24-20 lead midway through the third. In a hard fought fourth quarter the lead changed several times with the Knights prevailing at home on a buzzer beater 36-38.
GAME SUMMARY:
LL came out hot with a 3, but Noah Bloch answered back with a drive for 2 after a nice rebound from Justin Zegarowski. Noah added 2 more on a floater and Brady Quinn hit a FT for the Dons 5 in the quarter but a 4 for 6 performance from 3 for LL had them in the lead 5-14 after Q1.
Nate Bennett opened the Q2 scoring with a jumper. Acalanes tightened up the defense holding LL to a FT and a Jake Davis bucket and then tip in made it just a 4 point game. More stout defense from the Dons ended the next trip with a block from Jake and a transition 3 from Noah to cut it to 1, and a Noah steal and score gave the Dons their first lead. A few LL FT gave the Knights the halftime lead 17-16 as the Dons defense held the Knights without a field goal in the quarter helped by 4 blocks from Jake in Q2.
Tate Nelson got his first bucket to open the second half and added another on a cutting feed from Noah for a Dons 3 point lead. LL broke an 11 minute field goal drought with a putback, but Jake answered with a 3 off some nice drive and kick movement. Brady got a basket on a layup after a full court bomb from Jake but LL ended with 2 FT to make it a tie game at the end of 3.
Tate got the Dons on the board in Q4 with a backcut feed from Jake, and after a LL 3 Jack Bayless got a driving bank shot to fall and then hit a pull up to give the Dons the lead. LL got 2 3s but the Dons added a jumper from Tate and a turnaround from Noah to keep it a tie game. Sadly, the Dons lost on a buzzer beater for the second straight year at Las Lomas.