LONG BEACH – Teams usually are very hyped about playing their league opener.
So it was strange that Fairmont Prep’s boys basketball team played with little enthusiasm for its San Joaquin League opener.
The Huskies lost to San Gabriel Academy 54-35 on Saturday in the league opener for both teams. The game was played at Long Beach City College as part of the Lute Olson Legacy Classic. Fairmont-San Gabriel Academy was the fifth of six games played in the event.
San Gabriel Academy improved to 9-6 overall. Fairmont Prep is 10-9.
In the latest computer-generated rankings that will determine which teams play in which CIF Southern Section playoff divisions, Fairmont Prep is No. 29. San Gabriel Academy is No. 32.
Fairmont Prep, last season’s CIF-SS Division 2AA champion, is No. 9 in the Orange County Top 25.
Quick and crafty 5-11 freshman point guard Zach Arnold led San Gabriel Academy’s Eagles with 19 points. Arnold scored nine points in the third quarter as the Eagles outscored the Huskies 20-6 in that quarter to essentially secure the victory.
Fairmont Prep coach Joedy Gardner was impressed and compared Arnold, who was 8 for 13 from the field, to an NBA all-time great point guard.
“He turned this game around in the third quarter,” Gardner said. “He’s like Steve Nash.”
Fairmont Prep All-Orange County first-team forward David Abisogun was not nearly as effective as he usually is.
Abisogun, a 6-9 senior who was last season’s CIF-SS 2AA player of the year and signed with Texas State, took only three shots, made one of those and finished with five points. He grabbed a team-high six rebounds.
Abisogun went into the game averaging 16 points and 11 rebounds a game.
Junior guard Langston Ford led Fairmont Prep with 17 points, seven more than his per game average.
The Huskies were 10 for 36 from the field (28 percent) including 1 for 11 on 3-point shots. Their 35 points tied for their lowest points total in a game this season.
“We’re better than that,” Gardner said. “It wasn’t so much them (the Eagles) as it was us.”
San Gabriel Academy 6-8 sophomore Osmar Dabo scored 10 points with eight rebounds.
Fairmont Prep’s next game is a league home game against Capistrano Valley Christian on Thursday. San Gabriel Academy plays a nonleague home game Tuesday against San Fernando Valley Academy
Fairmont-San Gabriel Academy was preceded by a 3-point shooting contest, the “Pangos King of the Arc 3-point Challenge” that was won by Noah Zeola of Orange Lutheran. His victory awarded him a $1,500 NIL deal from Pangos which runs an All-American basketball camp among its basketball enterprises.
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