Sierra Canyon boys basketball pulls away from Crespi with late surge ...Middle East

CHATSWORTH — It pays to have two McDonald’s All-Americans on your team.

Sierra Canyon’s boys basketball team certainly felt the impact from having seniors Maxi Adams and Brandon McCoy in the fourth quarter, as it beat Crespi 71-54 on Wednesday in a pool-play game in the CIF-SS Open Division.

Adams drove down the lane and what he did next explains why he is committed to North Carolina. He dunked the ball emphatically after double-clutching it on the way up.

The dunk got the entire Sierra Canyon crowd on its feet. Minutes later, he showed his versatility by draining a wide-open 3-pointer to cap a 17-0 run by the Trailblazers in the fourth quarter.

McCoy made sure his impact was felt during the run as well. He drained two 3s during the run and added a dunk.

“We need to start executing and sharing the ball,” Sierra Canyon coach Andre Chevalier said of the 17-0 run at the start of the fourth quarter. “We were dribbling too much and getting in traffic. We couldn’t execute anything. So we need to slow down and execute.”

Sierra Canyon senior forward Brannon Martinsen also contributed late in the contest. He scored eight fourth-quarter points and finished the night with 15 points.

Martinsen played with high energy on the defensive end and attacked the boards.

Sophomore guard Jordan Mize led Sierra Canyon (23-1) in scoring with 16 points.

Mize started the game hot. He scored seven points in the first quarter and helped the Trailblazers get out to an 11-2 lead early.

“If we can get Martinsen playing at a high level, it’s gonna be very tough to beat us,” Chevalier said. “We just got to find a way to get into a flow with everybody.”

Offensive flow was hard to come by for the Trailblazers in the first half, but they managed to hold a 39-33 lead at hallftime.

The Celts (19-12) held Sierra Canyon to nine third-quarter points before the utter dominance in the fourth.

It was a completely different feeling from the first game these two teams played in the regular season.

In the regular-season matchup, the two teams combined for 167 points. Ball pressure, effort and playoff basketball all played a factor.

It was evident Crespi came in with a solid game plan: be aggressive on defense and push the pace in transition.

“We wanted to try to get back on defense, because they pushed the ball out hard,” Chevalier said. “We did a good job in the first quarter. Second quarter, not so much. They started to attack us a little bit more. We’ve got to be better.”

Sierra Canyon will play Corona del Mar on Tuesday, Feb. 17, in its next pool play game.

Chevalier knows what he wants his team to be more consistent with, if they’re to make a run in the bracket.

”We got to be able to defend one-on-one and keep people out of the paint,” Chevalier said. “That was our goal this game. Like I said in the first quarter, we did it. Second quarter, not so much. They started locking in as the game went on.”

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