By BRAYLON SMITH
Citrus Valley High School had their first home basketball game against Grand Terrace High School on Dec. 1.
The game starts off slow for the Blackhawks, with Grand Terrace Titan’s scoring 20 points in the first quarter to Citrus Valley Blackhawks’ six points. The first point for the Blackhawks is scored by senior Jayden Call.
The Titans run a press so the Blackhawks have to run their press break.
The second quarter starts with Grand Terrace up by a big lead. Citrus Valley senior Novaiah Little-Kong scores the Blackhawks’ next point to make the score 8-30.
The Blackhawks run a zone defense to try and stop Grand Terrace from driving in the paint and getting layups.
Size-wise, Grand Terrace is a bigger school with players much taller than Citrus Valley, making it easier for them to drive in the paint and score.
The second quarter comes to the end with a score of 22-44.
The Blackhawks go into halftime and reproup to fix their mistakes and come back to try and win the game.
The Blackhawks start the third quarter down by 20 points.
Jordan Davis is in the game, a freshman on varsity and their lead scorer.
Tragically Davis goes up to block a Titan from dunking the ball but gets dunked on. The crowd goes crazy screaming. Everyone is shocked but Davis shakes it off and keeps playing.
With the third quarter coming to an end, Citrus is scoring also but they can’t get any stops so Grand Terrace keeps the lead.
The third quarter comes to the end and the score is 41-65.
It’s the start of the 4th quarter and Citrus Valley continues to run a zone defense. Grant Terrace’s players are too big and break the zone. They continue to score and Citrus Valley is trying to figure out how to stop them.
At the end of the 4th quarter Citrus valley has lost its first home game of the season to Grand Terrace. The final score is 52-75.
“We need to move the ball around better and get more rebounds,” says Citrus Valley Coach Yon Okorodudu.
Citrus Valley tried their best but Grand Terrace got the better of them.
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