By David A. Willauer-Contributing Writer-Saturday, March 3, 2018-San Marcos High School-San Marcos, CA: The 6th seed Carlsbad Lancers have concluded their regular season at 15-16 but what a CIF Division III tournament run with wins over 12th seed Pacific Ridge, 14th seed Central High School, 7th seed Brawley High School in the semi finals and their Cinderella Magic ended in the championship Division III CIF Final as they were defeated in 3 overtimes by the top seed Matadors of Mt.Miguel by a well battled 79-76 contest.
Sam Eshelman Carlsbad Boys Basketball Coach: "Give Mount Miguel a lot of credit they are a good hungry team and they battled back like they did last season along with a well coached squad." " I'm proud of my squad as they battled hard tonight after trailing by 5 or 6 points and didn't quit, it takes a lot of effort that they showed."
"When we led 22-16 the Matadors shooting was outstanding after we lead we knew coming in the game they (Mount Miguel) are a great transition team, in the second half we wanted to slow them down as we didn't do a good job of getting back in transition and the cause was that we kept missing outside shots where we had trouble with we showed improvement in the second half of slowing them down but they have outstanding shooters.""We return 8 juniors 4 of them are starters and this was the ultimate goal for our school has waited for as we fell short but this was a great experience will be ready for the off season."
Carter Plousha led the Lancers with 23 points, 19 by Brogan Pietrocini along with 13 rebounds and 16 by Isaiah Ramos.
Sam Eshelman Carlsbad Boys Basketball Coach: "Give Mount Miguel a lot of credit they are a good hungry team and they battled back like they did last season along with a well coached squad." " I'm proud of my squad as they battled hard tonight after trailing by 5 or 6 points and didn't quit, it takes a lot of effort that they showed."
"When we led 22-16 the Matadors shooting was outstanding after we lead we knew coming in the game they (Mount Miguel) are a great transition team, in the second half we wanted to slow them down as we didn't do a good job of getting back in transition and the cause was that we kept missing outside shots where we had trouble with we showed improvement in the second half of slowing them down but they have outstanding shooters.""We return 8 juniors 4 of them are starters and this was the ultimate goal for our school has waited for as we fell short but this was a great experience will be ready for the off season."
Carter Plousha led the Lancers with 23 points, 19 by Brogan Pietrocini along with 13 rebounds and 16 by Isaiah Ramos.
