HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Willis, Carreon, Rose pace Bronchos’ bi-district victory
The Odessa Large boys basketball group led from start off to end against El Paso Eastwood.
That stated, it was not a wander in the park for the Bronchos.
LJ Willis had a game-higher 22 points, including 9 in the fourth quarter, to led Odessa Substantial to a 57-46 victory from the Troopers in Class 6A bi-district playoff video game Tuesday at the OHS Fieldhouse.
Ivan Carreon added 14 details and Coco Rose finished with 13 in the victory.
The Bronchos (25-8) highly developed to facial area the North Crowley-V.R. Eaton winner in the region round.
Top comfortably for most of the contest, Odessa Large noticed El Paso Eastwood (24-8) reduce a nine-place deficit to a few (49-46) with 3:50 remaining in the sport on back-to-back again 3-ideas from George Garcia and a layup from Isaac Mora.
Carreon, even so, answered with a pair of layups on the offensive end and then used his 6-foot-6 body to alter one particular Troopers’ shot and block two much more in the last moments of the sport.
Mora led El Paso Eastwood with 18 points, with Garcia ending with 13.
“We received what we envisioned from them,” Odessa Higher mentor Neal Welch mentioned. “They get just after it on protection, on offense, they do a genuinely, actually superior work.
“We targeted on receiving a superior start out, scoring at the rim. I realized that we had a minimal little bit of a sizing gain on them, so we actually attempted to get in the paint and rating early.”
Absolutely nothing match simple for the traveling to Troopers in the 1st fifty percent as the Bronchos contested each individual move, clogged the passing lanes and pulled down each and every missed shot.
So proficient was the Odessa Large protection that El Paso Eastwood didn’t score its initially factors until eventually there ended up fewer than two minutes remaining in the initially quarter.
At that position, the Bronchos led 10-, thanks to the intense perform of Rose, Jaylen McCowan and Willis on the perimeter as they seemed to generate on each possession, with Carreon there to end when the Troopers swarmed in protection.
El Paso Eastwood had some good results driving to the basket to get started the second quarter, with a few straight possessions ending with industry plans in the paint.
Odessa High, having said that, never flinched.
Willis strike a pair of 3-ideas sandwiched all-around a Carreon offensive rebound and put back again.
Rose then capped the 1st-50 percent scoring with a steal at midcourt and finish at the other close, giving the Bronchos a 24-15 heading into halftime:
Willis led the Bronchos with 10 details at the crack, with Carreon introducing eight and Rose 6.
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