By David A. Willauer-San Marcos High School-San Marcos, CA-It was a repeat of last years Division V CIF Section final where the Tritons of Preuss School had won and defeated the Hawks of O Farrell Charter but this year it was a nip and tuck, faked in the popcorn machine, no harm, no foul a dribbling and a drabbling type contest but it took 3 overtimes to win as the Hawks of O Farrell Charter (23-6) behind the 22 performance of sr AJ Gates as they defeated the Preuss Titans by a 77-72 score.
O Farrell's AJ Gates on his performance: "After the second overtime as we had a three point lead and Preuss tied on a buzzer beater I said OH MY GOSH HOW DID HE MAKE IT I WANTED THE GAME TO BE OVER he dropped the ball and my team all played together but in the 3rd overtime we are a three point shooting team as we went to our inside game we did better on the boards and boxed out for the ball and we won in the regular periods weren't helping each other as a team but we worked hard and won I felt that my team deserves the win and they are the ones that needed this I enter my last year it feels like a dream and have never cried before this is our first CIF Division V Section Title in school history."
John Van Houten O Farrell Charter Boys Head Basketball Coach: "We made more key shots then the other team Preuss battled is well Tony Torrentino made a lot of good outside shots for them hats off to him he had a 20 point first half performance we made adjustments in the second half to make him to shoot righthanded he made some good free throws Derrick Carter played with 4 fouls in the 3rd quarter and didn't come out until the third overtime that was key for us to keep our composure he has a bright future for us game tied Carl DeLeon's 3 pointer I was thinking the basketball gods made us right here in San Marcos and the fans got their money's worth"
Garrett Carter contributed with 20 and Jordan Gaines with 10.
For the Tritans at 18-10, Tony Tolentino led with 31 points, Beniem Tesfamichael contributed with 13 and Carl DeLeon with 9
Sportsmanship Awards went to Brian Tran for Preuss and Thomas Mozee for O Farrell
O Farrell's AJ Gates on his performance: "After the second overtime as we had a three point lead and Preuss tied on a buzzer beater I said OH MY GOSH HOW DID HE MAKE IT I WANTED THE GAME TO BE OVER he dropped the ball and my team all played together but in the 3rd overtime we are a three point shooting team as we went to our inside game we did better on the boards and boxed out for the ball and we won in the regular periods weren't helping each other as a team but we worked hard and won I felt that my team deserves the win and they are the ones that needed this I enter my last year it feels like a dream and have never cried before this is our first CIF Division V Section Title in school history."
John Van Houten O Farrell Charter Boys Head Basketball Coach: "We made more key shots then the other team Preuss battled is well Tony Torrentino made a lot of good outside shots for them hats off to him he had a 20 point first half performance we made adjustments in the second half to make him to shoot righthanded he made some good free throws Derrick Carter played with 4 fouls in the 3rd quarter and didn't come out until the third overtime that was key for us to keep our composure he has a bright future for us game tied Carl DeLeon's 3 pointer I was thinking the basketball gods made us right here in San Marcos and the fans got their money's worth"
Garrett Carter contributed with 20 and Jordan Gaines with 10.
For the Tritans at 18-10, Tony Tolentino led with 31 points, Beniem Tesfamichael contributed with 13 and Carl DeLeon with 9
Sportsmanship Awards went to Brian Tran for Preuss and Thomas Mozee for O Farrell
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