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80 - SJCC De Anza - 71 |
| Date: 2/23/2008 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 32 |
Game Notes: San Jose City College came from behind in the second half to beat DeAnza (3-9/8-21) to end their season 5-7 in conference and 16-14 overall.
With a win, DeAnza could have squeaked by San Jose for fourth place in the conference standings by virtue of having beat the Jags in their first match-up, but the loss relegated the Dons to the Coast-South conference cellar, and it gave San Jose a winning season after this year’s rebuilding effort following last year’s losing record.
It also added to San Jose City Coach Percy Carr’s total of 721 wins, the most of any two-year college coach in the country.
Quinston Reggins re-discovered the scoring button on his controller, netting 32 points, one short of his season high of 33, which included 5 from outside the arc and 7 of 10 free throws.
B.J. Lassiter contributed 17 points and 5 assists.
Chris Randel added ten points, matching his season high score, while grabbing a college-career high of 14 rebounds while sinking 4 of 4 from the charity stripe.
Tim Harrison scored his season high of 10.
And sophomore Isaiah Johnson, playing his last game as a Jaguar, got 7 points, 7 rebounds, 4 blocks and went a perfect 3 for 3 from the free throw line. Johnson ended the season with a 14 point scoring average.
DeAnza's Melvin Sneed, a freshman guard from Denver-East High School, led all scorers with 34.
The first half of the game did not go well for San Jose City.
After keeping pace in scoring with the Dons through the opening minutes, DeAnza’s defense started dominating the Jags midway through the first half.
A 10-0 run by the DeAnza that gave them a 25-16 lead allowed them to press/trap San Jose, which produced three consecutive San Jose turnovers when the Jaguars could not break the press.
Those turnovers produced scores of a Trey by Sneed, and another two points on free throws by Roderic Wilson (Warrensville/Ohio), which staked DeAnza to a 14-point lead, 32-18, at 9:14 in the first half.
San Jose kept racking up turnovers—-compiling 17 in the first period—-and got into early foul trouble as DeAnza dominated the wrestling match down low.
With 7 minutes remaining in the first half, San Jose remembered how to advance the ball into the front court and defend by moving their feet rather than their elbows and began to chip away at the deficit.
Reggins grabbed a defensive rebound and passed to a streaking Tim Harrison, who was fouled on the lay-up and converted the penalty shots to put the score at 34-21.
Isaiah Johnson then blocked a DeAnza shot out-of-bounds on the next possession, DeAnza failed to score on the inbound play, and Chris Randel tipped-in his own shot at the other end to help the Jags gain a basket on DeAnza.
At the 4-minute mark, Reggins drained a 3 set up by a pass from Harrison, who then swished a trey of his own on the next San Jose possession.
Reggins next made two jump-shots and Lassiter put back his own missed short-jumper to halve DeAnza’s lead, 42-35, as the first period ended.
San Jose actually scored more baskets than DeAnza in the first half (14 to 12), but the Jaguars commited enough personal fouls to give DeAnza a 15-21 to 3-4 advantage at the free throw line.
The second period of play began with a Quinston Reggins’ steal of DeAnza’s first possession, which he then ran coast-to-coast for a lay-up and score.
Over the second half’s first ten minutes, Reggins converted two free throws earned when he was fouled on a dribble-drive to the hoop, a 4-point play when he drained a trey just as the shot-clock buzzer sounded, and another 3-point shot following an Isaiah Johnson defensive shot-block.
Matched with a basket by Lassiter, a score by Randel following another Johnson shot-block, and a Johnson put-back, and San Jose at the 10-minute mark had closed to within 2 points of DeAnza, 55-53.
San Jose City then tied the score, 57-57, 90 seconds later when Randel put a rebound back into the hole, and then crept ahead, 59-57, when San Jose stopped DeAnza with an Alex Cowley (Deer Valley/Antioch) steal, followed on the next DeAnza possession by yet another Johnson shot-block.
B.J. Lassiter picked up the loose ball and then ran the court and drove between two defenders for a lay-up.
Johnson then swatted the next DeAnza shot attempt out-of-bounds; the Dons’ inbound play only resulted in two missed free-throws after a San Jose foul.
The Jags then rallied for three consecutive scores—-an assist by Reggins to Randel, and tip-ins by both Lassiter and Johnson—-for a 65-57 lead with 6:20 on the game clock.
DeAnza went up on San Jose 68-67 with 3 minutes to go in the game when Erick Seaman (Air Academy) drained two from the floor, and Sneed and Wilson each made a basket.
Alex Cowley made a free throw plus the bonus to give San Jose the lead for good, 69-68, after he was fouled in the backcourt attempting to grab a defensive rebound.
San Jose City protected their margin when steals, first by Randel and then by Lassiter, stopped DeAnza’s next two offensive possessions.
That Lassiter steal of a Dons’ front court pass followed by a coast-to-coast run and then a 5’ floater sealed the deal for the Jaguars, 73-68, with 90 ticks left on the scoreboard clock.
The subsequent parade of Jaguar shooters to the free throw line following DeAnza's desperation, intentional fouls added to the San Jose margin as the remaining seconds of the season expired.
(report by Charles Heimler)
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63 - SJCC Gavilan - 61 |
| Date: 2/20/2008 |
| Place: Gilroy |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 16 |
Game Notes: San Jose City College earned their fourth conference win against seven losses in this squeaker against Gavilan (3-8/9-22) that was not decided until the last minute of the game.
B.J. Lassiter hit a trey with 3:30 remaining in the game to put City up 61-59. Gavilan's Jesse LoBue (23 points for the night) then tied the score, 61-61, with a 5 foot jumper over City's Isaiah Johnson.
With 2 minutes left, City's Quinston Reggins drove through the lane for a lay-up, which gave San Jose the lead, 63-61.
Gavilan's Vince Bautista (San Benito H.S) then stole a Jag pass and ran the court, but his lay-up had enough side spin so that it entered the basket and then spun out.
City then turned the ball over on a back court violation with 1:13 left in the game, Gavilan missed another lay-up, and San Jose turned the ball over on a traveling violation with 20 clicks left on the game clock.
After a full time out by Gavilan and then a full time out by San Jose, Gavilan broke City's full court press and fed the ball to LoBue, who missed an 8 foot jumper at the buzzer to give the win to San Jose.
Gavilan got on the scoreboard first when Jesse LoBue, like seven of his sophomore teammates playing their last home game for the Rams, hit an outside jumper.
San Jose City’s Brandon Criss converted one of two free throws and Isaiah Johnson put back a rebound to make the score 3-2 for the Jaguars after the first three minutes.
Both teams traded scores through most of first half, with neither leading by over five points.
Gavilan crept ahead by a handful, 12-7, at the 12-minute mark when LoBue was credited with a score on a goaltending call and Luke Murrell (Seaside H.S.) drove through the paint for a lay-up.
San Jose City managed to get a 4-point lead, 28-24 with three minutes left in the period, which dissipated to 29-28 in Gavilan’s favor at the intermission when City was whistled for a 5-second violation and a foul while Gavilan’s Murrell hit a 3-pointer and LoBue another outside jumper.
Gavilan surged to a 6-point lead, 34-28, in the second half’s first two minutes off a Micah Jones (Live Oak, Morgan Hill) trey and two Ben Chambliss (Seaside) free throws, and then to a seven-point lead, 38-31 after 4 minutes.
Ross Puséy came off the bench at point guard at the 8-minute mark and sparked a 5-minute San Jose City rally that included two assists by him to Isaiah Johnson, a score on an outside jumper, a strip of the ball on defense that resulted in a pick-up steal by B.J. Lassiter who fed Quinston Reggins for the score, and another dish to Lassiter for a trey.
Another defensive pick by Reggins who then passed to Johnson for the lay-up put the score at 43-42 for San Jose at the 13:30 mark.
Another offensive surge by San Jose City started by a Reggins steal of a Gavilan front-court pass that he converted after running the court with a one-handed lay-up off the dribble, a jumper from the left wing, and a lay-up following a drive through the paint set the table for a short jumper by Brandon Criss to put San Jose City ahead 51-47 with seven minutes remaining in the contest.
Two more baskets by Reggins and a Johnson tip-in matched by three from the floor by LoBue, two by Jones, and another by Scott Benson (Anzar H.S./Aromas) put the teams even 61-61 with 2:12 to go.
Reggins last drive gave the edge to San Jose, 63-61, and the game ended with Gavilan unable to take advantage of two Jaguar turnovers in the game’s last two minutes.
Isaiah Johnson--15
B.J. Lassiter--11
(report by Charles Heimler) |
53 - SJCC West Valley - 76 |
| Date: 2/16/2008 |
| Place: Saratoga |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 13 |
Game Notes: It was a disappointing afternoon for the Jaguars, who hoped to avenge their 3-point loss last month to West Valley, a team entering the day with a 13-15 overall record.
San Jose City was only in the game for the first five minutes after two early scores by B.J. Lassiter, one a 3-pointer and the second a lay-up after a steal by Isaiah Johnson, matched West Valley at 7-7.
Two scores by the Vikings’ Marseilles Stewart and then a 3-pointer by the Jaguars’ Brandon Criss put the score at 13-10 in favor of West Valley after 5 minutes, but that would be as close as San Jose would be for most of the first period, as West Valley steadily increased its lead through the first half.
San Jose City did challenge West Valley at the 7-minute mark when two steals by Quinston Reggins were converted into scores—one a passing series from Reggins to Lassiter to Isaiah Johnson under the basket for lay-up and another resulting from a theft by Reggins of a West Valley front court pass and subsequent fast-break relay to Marshawn Landrine for a pull-up 3-pointer, to bring San Jose within three, 27-24.
Then West Valley played out the rest of the first half with an 8-2 run as Marseilles Stewart hit two consecutive baskets while his twin brother, Dominic Stewart, both freshman from ISA High School in San Francisco, collected one of his scores on a baseline drive while San Jose could only net two free throw baskets by B.J. Lassiter.
The first half ended in West Valley’s favor, 34-26.
West Valley opened the first half with three from outside the arc in the first two minutes of play by Dominic Stewart, Nick Alexander (Bellarmine), and Steve Collins (Dyett, Chicago).
San Jose responded with a Reggins’ assist to Chris Randel followed on the next possession by a jumper by Quinston Reggins, but by the time San Jose coach Percy Carr called a time-out with 15 minutes left in the game, West Valley had run up a twenty-point lead, 53-33, as San Jose had no answer for the Vikings’ Alexander twins.
West Valley’s largest lead was 28 with seven minutes left in the game, 73-45, and with the win improved to 14-15 overall and 6-4 in the Coast-South Conference.
San Jose could only muster four Isaiah Johnson free throws in the games’ last five minutes until Reggins hit a jumper in the last ten seconds.
B.J. Lassiter ended the game with 11 points, 5 assists, and 4 of 4 from the free throw line.
Both Quinston Reggins and Chris Randel finished with 8 points.
Brandon Criss had 7 points and 4 rebounds.
Marshawn Landrine collected a season high of 6 points.
Isaiah Johnson grabbed 10 rebounds.
San Jose (3-7 in conference) has two remaining games—Wednesday at 7 against Gavilan in Gilroy and Saturday at home at 3 against DeAnza.
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66 - SJCC Monterey Peninsula College - 77 |
| Date: 2/13/2008 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: B.J. Lassiter, 19 |
Game Notes: San Jose City College dropped a conference game to visiting Monterey Peninsula College and now is 3-6 in Coast-South conference play with three contests against West Valley, Gavilan, and DeAnza to go in this season.
Monterey took an early lead in the game but both squads were tied, 10-10 after the first eight minutes, as San Jose opened its offensive attack with scores by Javin Charlot, Alex Cowley, and two buckets by Brandon Criss (13 points/6 rebounds).
Monterey edged-out a 6-point lead, 18-12, in the next three minutes after James Sandoval (17 pts./9 rebounds) dropped three in a row from the low post.
The two teams stayed within four points of each other as San Jose City’s Chris Randel (10 pts./4 rebounds) helped the Jags keep pace with the Lobos with baskets on three consecutive San Jose possessions.
Down by 1 point, 31-30 with 1:30 left in the period, a Tim Harrison put-back, and B.J. Lassiter perimeter goal, and then a Harrison put-back dunk gave San Jose City a mini-rally that sent the teams into intermission tied, 36-36.
The wheels came off the San Jose City bus immediately in the second half.
Monterey went on a 13-0 scoring run in the second period’s first four minutes ignited when Theo Jackson hammered a basket off an alley-oop pass, and then stole a Jaguar pass and ran the court for an uncontested lay-up
Jermaine Carter, Mike Miller, and James Sandoval all found the hole, as City could not find its offense.
After a full time-out, San Jose City’s Ross Pusey came off the bench and hit a ten-foot jumper from the center of the key to mark the Jaguars’ first score of the second half.
Pusey stayed in the game at point-guard, and ended the game with a season-high of 8 points. He contributed four assists, distributed to both B.J. Lassiter and Brandon Criss, who with Pusey accounted for all of the Jaguars’ second half field goals.
San Jose City came within 5 points of Monterey, 71-66, with 1-minute left in the game when B.J. Lassiter hit a trey, but a long full-court pass followed by a dunk by Monterey’s Theo Jackson extinguished any hope of a San Jose desperation comeback.
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62 - SJCC Cabrillo - 82 |
| Date: 2/9/2008 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Javin Charlot and Isaiah Johnson, 14 |
Game Notes: San Jose City ran with conference leading Cabrillo (8-1) in the game’s first half, but fell behind early and big in the second half, as Cabrillo outshot San Jose from the floor over the course of the game, draining 36 baskets to San Jose City’s 24.
The Jaguars came into the game hoping to avenge their 27-point loss to Cabrillo in their first meeting this year. Cabrillo suffered its first conference loss to DeAnza (3-6) this week, which helped to support San Jose’s hope that a revenge win would sweeten their season and salvage their 3-5 conference record.
San Jose City scored first on a basket by Brandon Criss, which was matched on the next possession by Cabrillo’s Chris Sharp (Santa Cruz), a 6’7” 225-pound center whose low post scoring would help him end up as the game’s high scorer with 18.
Three drives from the low post by City’s Isaiah Johnson, two baskets by B.J. Lassiter, one a lay-in off the fast break and a coast-to-coast effort following a steal, a lay-up following a steal by Alex Cowley, a trey by Javin Charlot, and an outside jumper by Quinston Reggins helped put San Jose City in the lead 19-18 halfway through the first act.
Scores by five different Cabrillo Seahawks over the next eight minutes posted the visitors to a 36-30 lead, the largest of the first period, with 2:20 left in the half.
Two 3-point baskets by Jaguar Javin Charlot in 1-minute of play brought City to within a basket as the first half ended, 38-36.
A technical foul called just after the first half expired on Cabrillo coach Tony Marcopulos following a warning from the referee and then more “F-Bombs” directed at the men-in-stripes’ direction, resulted in San Jose City’s Quinston Reggins depositing two peaches through the basket before the second half clock began its countdown, evening the score 38-38.
San Jose stayed in the game for the first five minutes of the second period, trailing by 5, 52-47.
Then Cabrillo ignited a 20-5 run in 9 minutes, and sat atop a 20-point lead, 72-52, with six minutes left in the game.
San Jose City’s Ross Pusey (Silver Creek) came off the bench to ping an outside jumper and a 3-pointer, and Javin Charlot scored another of his four baskets from outside the arc, but San Jose managed just ten points in the game’s last minutes, falling off the pace set in the first half.
Four Jaguars scored in double-figures—Isaiah Johnson (14), Javin Charlot (14), Quinston Reggins (11), and B.J. Lassiter (10).
Four Seahawks also scored in double-figures—Chris Sharp (18), Denver Mack (Burton H.S.) (16), Jared Wood (S. Lake Tahoe) (13), and Aaron Pearson (So. University H.S.) (13).
Javin Charlot made 5 of 10 (50%) field goals and 4 of 6 3-pointers (66%).
B.J. Lassiter went 5 for 10 from the field (50%), and collected 4 rebounds and 5 assists despite missing 5 minutes of the first half with a turned ankle.
Isaiah Johnson hit 5 of 7 from the floor (71%) and 4 of 5 from the line (80%).
Quinston Reggins was a perfect 4 of 4 from the free throw line.
San Jose City’s next game is at home, Wednesday against Monterey at 7:30. It follows the Lady Jags’ game at home against Cabrillo at 5:30.
(report by Charles Heimler)
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83 - SJCC Hartnell - 67 |
| Date: 2/6/2008 |
| Place: Salinas |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: B.J. Lassiter, 26 |
Game Notes: San Jose City improved its conference record to 3-4 and 14-11 overall with a win over Hartnell (4-4/8-15), limiting Hartnell’s 3-point dependent offense, controlling the boards with 35 rebounds, and finding the open man on offense with over 20 assists.
Jaguar B.J. Lassiter had his college-career high game with 26 points, which included 3 from the arc, 10 field goals, and 3 for 5 from the free throw line. His second college double-double came with 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 6 steals.
Lassiter came ready to play from the first moments of the game, stealing a Hartnell offensive pass and running the court for a lay-up to put City up 2-0. The Jags would lose that lead only once in the game, when the Panthers edged up 8-7 at the 15 minute mark of the first period when Chris Warne (Salinas H.S) hit a trey.
San Jose’s Brandon Criss then coverted two penalty shots, putting City back on top 9-8, and it was the Jags ball game from that point on.
At the ten minute mark of the first half, San Jose led 26-16, following a run that included a jumper from the free throw line area by Tim Harrison, two 3-point baskets by Quinston Reggins, a long trey by Javin Charlot, an short corner jumper by Alex Cowley, and two baskets by Lassiter.
In the last three minutes of the half, Hartnell put together an 8-2 run when San Jose gave up a personal foul, missed a block-out on a defensive rebound, and turned the ball over on a traveling violation produced by the Panther press.
Meanwhile, Hartnell’s motion offense found the on switch, resulting in a converted free throw by Ian Hosford (Hong Kong Int’l.) , a turn-around jumper from the low-post by Chris Warne, and a 3-pointer by Chris Romney (Farmington, UT)when no Jag faced him up.
The Panther burst and the Jaguar fade brought Hartnell to within 5 points as the half ended, 36-31.
San Jose Coach Percy Carr then had his team huddle on the court under the bleachers for the half-time adjustment session, forsaking the time-consuming trip back to the visitor’s locker room.
The result was that the Jags came back out in the second half and quickly ran up their lead to 11 points, 46-35, after the first four minutes courtesy of 2 steals by Quinston Reggins, a put back by Brandon Criss, a basket and two free throws by Tim Harrison, and a high-arc jumper by Lassiter.
San Jose City extended its lead to 16 points at the 10 minute mark, 61-45, and Hartnell never got within 14 for the rest of the game.
Freshman forward Tim Harrison’s game was a season high-point for him, as he netted 10 points, 6 of them field goals, and hit 4 of 6 from the charity stripe.
Chris Randel finished with 8 points and 6 rebounds; Brandon Criss contributed 6 points and 6 rebounds.
San Jose City plays next at home this Saturday at 3 pm against conference leaders Cabrillo College (7-1) , who yesterday lost their first conference game to DeAnza (3-5), 56-53.
The Jaguars are now 2-0 against Hartnell this season, having bested the Panthers in their conference opener.
Conference standings---Cabrillo (7-1), Monterey (5-3), Hartnell (4-4), West Valley (3-4), SJCC (3-4), DeAnza (3-5), Gavilan 2-6).
(report by Charles Heimler)
Where are they now? Former Jaguar Jamon Hill is a senior at D-1 San Jose State, and lately he's been on fire.
Saturday he had his career best game with 17 points--4-8 FG, 2-4 3PT, 7-8 FT, 5 assists, 2 steals, as the Spartans (10-11,2-6) came from an 18 point deficit to lose by a basket to New Mexico State(12-12,6-3).
On January 17 when the Spartans beat WAC rival Fresno State, 69-65, Hill returned to the starting line-up and achieved his previous all-career high scoring game, collecting 14 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists.
Here's how his coach George Nessman, explained Hill's success on the Spartan website: "I wrote a little deal for Jamon on the plan back from Hawaii. Jamon and I sat together on the plane ride. These are the five things he needed to do in Justin Graham's (injured in UH game) absence. If Jamon is not willing to do it, then we need to find an alternative, tell me now. I handed it to him, had him read it and went to sit with him. He said, 'Coach, don't worry. I know exactly what I need to do.' He's been struggling a little bit getting his rhythm. He played an outstanding game and we need him to play an outstanding game."
Hill's picture is featured on SJSU men's basketball website (www.sjsu.edu--click "spartan athletics") |
67 - SJCC DeAnza - 74 |
| Date: 1/30/2008 |
| Place: Cupertino |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 23 |
Game Notes: San Jose City (2-4 conference) dropped a must-win conference match-up with the DeAnza Dons (1-5 in conference), ending the first round of this year’s conference play with the same record and wins against the same teams, Hartnell and Gavilan, as last season.
The contest started slowly as both teams started off in a half-court offense but neither could find the scoring handle. San Jose City’s Quinston Reggins put the first digit on the board when he converted one of the three free throws awarded after he was fouled on a three-point attempt, and then hit a trey to put San Jose up 4-2 after nearly four minutes of the game.
DeAnza got its own initial scoring burst when Michael Herdandez, a 6 foot sophomore guard (Piedmont H.S.) deposited a free throw and then his own trey to even the score 6-6. Both teams traded scores in the early going and were tied, 13-13, at the first period’s halfway point.
Jaguar assist-score combos from Reggins to Chris Randel and Kenny McGowan to Brandon Criss kept the score even, 17-17, until the 8 minute mark. The Dons then went on a 2-minute, 8-0 run to compile an 8-point lead, 25-17, with 6 minutes left in the half.
Scores by San Jose were then matched by scores by DeAnza, with the Dons adding slightly to their advantage, leading by 12, 33-21, when Melvin Sneed, a 6’5” freshman guard (Denver-East), drained a 3-pointer. Sneed would wind up as the game’s leading scorer with 28.
San Jose City came within 7 of DeAnza in the first half, 37-30, by the last minute of the period after a low post drive by Isaiah Johnson and two field goals by B.J. Lassiter, one a 3-point play that resulted when he grabbed a defensive rebound, sprinted on the dribble to the basket, took a hard foul that spun him around 180 degrees, and flipped the ball from waist level over his left shoulder and into the hoop.
City’s trap then forced DeAnza to call a time out after fumbling the ball out-of-bounds, but a Reggins lay-up flushed back out of the net and the teams entered the intermission still at 37-30.
San Jose City crept back to tie the score, 42-42, in the first five minutes of the game’s second half, fueled by outside jumpers by Alex Cowley (8 points) and Reggins. A personal foul on Reggins on a three-point attempt was as good as the basket as he drained all three free throws.
A trap-induced steal by City of DeAnza’s next possession resulted in a Kenny McGowan dish to Reggins for another trey, and a Reggins shot that looked like a pass was grabbed by Brandon Criss who floated a 5-foot jumper right in front of the basket. San Jose’s mini-rally gave them 47, which was answered in kind when DeAnza’s Snead chi-chinged a trey and Roderic Wilson, a 6’5” sophomore forward (Warrensville Hts/Ohio) converted an offensive rebound to again tie the score, 47-47, with 13 minutes to go in the game.
A San Jose City turnover enabled a score by the Dons’ Greg Thacker, a 6’2” guard (Cupertino) for a 2 point lead, which was then followed on City’s next possession with a Cowley jumper that tied the game again, 49-49.
And then DeAnza’s Kenneth McKinney got his highlights by in quick succession hitting a jump-shot, dunking off a half-court pass through the leaky Jaguar press-trap, and then scoring another basket to put DeAnza in the lead for good, 56-49 with 11 minutes left.
Wanting to earn their first conference win, the Dons’ went on to defensively dominate the Jaguars, who were disadvantaged when Kenny McGowan had to leave the game with a broken finger and Isaiah Johnson and B.J. Lassiter had to sit after each collected their 5th personal fouls.
With 3 minutes left in the game and a 69-60 DeAnza lead, San Jose was sustained for a few moments on life support by a front-court steal of a DeAnza pass by Marshawn Landrine, who deposited two free throws earned when he was fouled trying to finish up the drive down the court to the basket.
A free throw by Alex Cowley when he was hacked attempting to put-back an offensive rebound followed by his jumper from the wing took the Jags to within 5, 70-65, with a half-minute left. A Brandon Criss rebound and one more Reggins outside shot in desperation time were matched by two charity conversions off the intentional foul by the Dons’ Melvin Sneed.
SJCC’s Chris Randel finished with 10 and Brandon Criss 8, but the distributed scoring was not enough to offset City’s anemic 9 first half field goals and second half defensive fade.
The Jaguars take the weekend off and travel to play Hartnell in Salinas Wednesday at 7. They host Cabrillo, undefeated in conference at 6-0, Saturday, February 9 at 3 pm.
(report by Charles Heimler)
Coast Conference South Standings (1-31-08)
CABRILLO 6-0
HARTNELL 4-2
MONTEREY 3-3
WEST VALLEY 3-3
SAN JOSE CITY 2-4
GAVILAN 2-4
DEANZA 1-5
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76 - SJCC Gavilan - 61 |
| Date: 1/26/2008 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 19 |
Game Notes: San Jose City College (13-10/2-3) claimed its second conference win as four players scored in double figures. While Gavilan scored more field goals than San Jose City (25-23), the Jaguars' 77 % free throw shooting, many in a double-bonus situation, provided the decisive margin in the game, as Kenny McGowan hit a perfect 9 of 9 and Isaiah Johnson hit 9 of 11 (82%).
Gavilan took an early lead in the game as four different players, Scott Benson (Anzar,Aromas), Jessie LoBue (Santa Cruz), John Williams (Oak Grove, San Jose), and Micah Jones (Love Oak, Morgan Hill) connected from the field, putting Gavilan on top 14-12 after the first 8 minutes of play.
San Jose City then took the lead 15-14 on a pass from Kenny McGowan to B.J. Lassiter, who then hit a 3-point shot. Two possessions later Quinston Reggins grabbed a rebound and fed to McGowan, who converted a lay-up into a 3-point play, extending the Jaguars’ lead to 18-14. With just under 11 minutes left in the first half, a Blair Wortham (Gilroy) basket brought the visitors to within 2 points, 18-16.
San Jose City padded its lead to a dozen, 34-22, with 3 minutes left in the first half, as Chris Randel (9 points for the game) converted an offensive rebound into a score and completed a McGowan to Lassiter to Randel pass series in the motion offense.
In the last 3 minutes of the period, however, Gavilan outscored the home team 8-0. Gavilan’s Ben Chambliss (Seaside) took advantage of a San Jose City turnover to hit a buzzer buster and send the teams into the locker room at 34-30.
In the first minute of the second half, Gavilan continued its momentum and caught the Jaguars slumbering, rallying within one point, 36-35, as Scott Benson put-back a rebound and Micah Johnson added a 3-point play.
San Jose Coach Percy Carr then called a time-out for a short basketball tutoring session, which put the Jags back on track as McGowan hit from the perimeter, Johnson drove through the lane for a lay-up, and McGowan hit two free throws. Coupled with San Jose’s full-court press that resulted in two successive turnovers by Gavilan, and San Jose sat atop a 42-35 advantage at the 16 minute mark.
From that point, San Jose City’s advantage was never fewer than 8 points, as Gavilan focused its offense around outside shooting by Jessie LoBue, a 6’7’’ sophomore forward, who was the game’s leading scorer with 20.
Quinston Reggins scored 16 with 4 assists, Kenny McGowan had 15 with 4 assists, B.J. Lassiter netted 12, and Chris Randel 9.
San Jose City’s top rebounders were Johnson, 10, Randel, 9, Lassiter, 6, and Brandon Criss, 5.
Where are they now? Dave Smith, last year’s team captain whose season ended midway through the schedule with an injury that resulted in knee surgery, had the best game of his four-year university career. Smith is now a junior point guard at Cameron University (3-15/1-2) in the Lone Star Conference in Oklahoma. On Saturday against Northeastern State (8-10/2-2), Smith helped his team to its first conference win with 18 points, 6-11 from the field, 3-4 from the arc, and 3-3 from the free throw line, and 6 assists while playing 38 minutes.
Last week, Smith matched up in a conference game against former San Jose City College team mate Michael Dyson, who is a junior forward with East Central University (10-8/1-3) in Ada, Oklahoma, and is averaging 7 points per game.
Coast Conference South Standings (1/27/08)
Cabrillo 5-0
Hartnell 3-2
West Valley 3-2
Monterey 3-3
San Jose City 2-3
Gavilan 2-3
DeAnza 0-5
(reports by Charles Heimler)
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66 - SJCC West Valley - 69 |
| Date: 1/23/2008 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 19 |
Game Notes: San Jose City College Men’s basketball team came up short in the final fifteen seconds of an up-tempo, nip-and-tuck game against West Valley, in a contest that saw 20 lead changes and 9 ties.
West Valley, a perennial conference champion and state tournament play-off team, has not skipped a beat as their former head coach Danny Yoshikawa (144-47 over the past 5 seasons) moved to an assistant position at UC Santa Barbara, and Colin Pfaff (DeAnza, CSUMB) and Ryan Madry (WVC, U of West Georgia) were elevated from assistant coaches to co-head coach positions at the Saratoga college.
San Jose City continues to struggle in conference play from the charity stripe (14 for 22, 63% against West Valley), converting scores in transition, and holding a lead, despite racking up numerous steals on defense, out-rebounding their opponents, and double-digit scoring from three or more players in each game.
The two teams traded baskets through most of the first half, with the score tied 15-15 at the ten minute mark. B.J. Lassiter had a hot hand in the early going, ringing up two from the arc and two from the paint for 10 points in the first ten minutes.
Two free throws and an outside shot by Quinston Reggins and two free throws and a 7’ jumper by Isaiah Johnson provided the rest of the first half scoring for the Jags while West Valley was powered into a 27-25 first half lead in part by three-point scores by Dominic Stewart, a freshman guard from San Francisco and Nick Alexander, a sophomore forward from Bellarmine.
San Jose City took the lead in the opening minute of the second half on a Brandon Criss tip-in of a Javin Charlot shot, 30-29. From that point, the two teams resumed the tooth-and-nail battle begun in the first half, trading scores and the lead, with the edge slightly going to West Valley, who never led by more than 4 points.
Three dribble-drive baskets in four minutes by Kenny McGowan, a low-post turn-round by Isaiah Johnson, and a put-back of a rebound by Brandon Criss helped San Jose City keep pace with West Valley’s outside scoring by Jabari McIntosh, a sophomore forward from Newark Memorial in Antioch and Marseilles Stewart, and freshman guard/forward from San Francisco.
With the scored tied at 43-43, San Jose City’s B.J. Lassiter grabbed a rebound off his own shot and ignited a 6 minute Jaguar run in which they outscored West Valley 15-7, resulting in an 8 point lead, largest of the night for either team, 58-50, with just over 6 minutes left in the game.
The scoring burst included a three-point play by Alex Cowley, who following a miss wrestled the ball away from the Viking player who’d grabbed the rebound, hit the lay-up from down under despite getting fouled, and converted on the penalty shot.
Johnson then punched the ticket on one of his drive-like-a train moves through the paint, Reggins pulled the handle on two outsides shots plus a trey, and Javin Charlot scored off an assist from Johnson.
With six minutes remaining, however, the air began to leak from the San Jose City College balloon as West Valley made its own run, besting the Jags 16-5 to take the lead 66-63 with just under two minutes left in the game as Marseilles Stewart drained 6 and Jabari MacIntosh 4 in the Viking rally.
San Jose City’s Javin Charlot kept the patient alive with a three-point play with 15 seconds left in the match, but by then San Jose had run out of rabbits and out of hats.
B.J. Lassiter netted 12 and Isaiah Johnson 11; Quinston Reggins dished 4 assists.
San Jose City meets Gavilan next at home this Saturday at 3 pm.
(report by Charles Heimler)
San Jose City Jaguars Stat Leaders (20 games)
Scoring avg--
Reggins 17,
Johnson 15,
Lassiter 10
FG%--
Johnson 56,
Randell 47,
Cowley 46
3PT%--
Landrine 40,
Criss 36,
Reggins 30,
Charlot 30
FT%--
McGowan 87,
Reggins 80
Assists per game--
McGowan 3,
Reggins 3
Rebounds per game--
Johnson 7,
Criss 6. |
47 - SJCC Monterey Peninsula College - 57 |
| Date: 1/18/2008 |
| Place: Monterey |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 15 |
Game Notes: It was payback time for the Monterey Lobos, who avenged their Holiday Tournament Championship loss to San Jose City in a conference game on their home court. The mostly-freshman Jaguar team flattened for the night on their learning curve, shooting just 32 % from the floor and 52% from the line.
A Kenny McGowan steal of a pass on Monterey’s first possession of the game seemed to signal a good omen for the Jags. Both teams traded scores and turnovers in the early minutes and San Jose City led 9-8 midway through the first half as both teams struggled against each other’s defense.
Two scores by Brandon Criss, B.J. Lassiter’s airborne reverse lay-up off the dribble-drive, and Isaiah Johnson’s 3 pivot turn-arounds from the low-post helped San Jose match Monterey’s scoring through most of the first 20 minutes.
But Monterey’s James Sandoval’s early inside scoring, particularly off a strong-side, floater pass over the top of the defense to his low post that would work four times in the game, proved unstoppable. Sandoval was the game’s leading scorer with 17.
Monterey, whose record with the win is now 13-10 and 3-1 in conference, good for second place behind Cabrillo’s 4-0 conference record, led at the half 28-19.
San Jose City suffered an 11-1 run by Monterey in the first 7 minutes of the second half as the Lobos built a 19-point lead, 41-22, as Monterey was able to break San Jose’s full-court press and convert with Sandoval’s inside game and cherry picks off the press-break, Jermaine Carter’s connection from the arc, and Theo Jackson’s perimeter shot.
With 12 minutes left in the contest, San Jose City lurched into its own game tempo when B.J. Lassiter grabbed a defensive rebound and took it coast-to-coast for a lay-up. That ignited City’s steal-production (20 steals for the night) as Quinston Reggins, Isaiah Johnson, Brandon Criss, and Kenny McGowan grabbed Monterey front court passes that resulted in scores from the floor or free-throw line.
San Jose City closed the gap to 8 points, 50-42, with 3 minutes remaining in the game with a jumper by Kenny McGowan and a three-point play by Isaiah Johnson. A put-back by Lobo Michael Miller and a score by Lobo Martel Israel matched a 3-point basket by City’s Kenny McGowan in the last minute to contain the Jaguars' late game rally.
Both Reggins and Criss had 4 steals apiece; Johnson grabbed 9 rebounds and Randel and Criss both grabbed 5 rebounds.
In the last week, San Jose has slipped from a 5-game win streak to a 2-game losing streak on the road and is now 1-2 in Coast Conference-South play. The Jaguars play the next two games at home—Wednesday at 7 pm with West Valley (10-12; 2-1) and Saturday at 3 pm with Gavilan (7-16; 1-2).
(report by Charles Heimler)
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42 - SJCC Cabrillo - 69 |
| Date: 1/16/2008 |
| Place: Aptos |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 16 |
Game Notes: The team left their game somewhere on Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains when they traveled to Cabrillo College and managed only 12 points in the first half while watching Seahawk freshman Travess Armenta, who previously played at Ft. Lewis College and Longmont High School in Colorado, rack up six 3-point shots (18 points) in the first half.
Cabrillo (14-7, 3-0 in conference) put an aggressive full court trapping press on the Jags' from their first offensive possession, which took San Jose City out of their rhythm and led to an anemic first half offensive production, managing only 6 field goals from the floor, less than half their average.
Cabrillo continued to scramble San Jose's offense and score unabated and led 42-12 at the intermission.
San Jose City spent all but the last 2 minutes of the mid-game break huddled in the locker room trying to re-discover the elements that this week led to their #12 State ranking and #5 Northern California ranking in the Coaches' Poll.
The Jags got a bit back on track and outscored Cabrillo 30-27 in the second half as the Seahawks got all their players into the romp, leading by 30 points for most of the game.
Armenta pinged 2 more baskets from downtown in the second half to lead all scorers with 24 points--he was 8 for 10 (80%) from the arc.
San Jose City's Isaiah Johnson scored 14 of his 16 points in second half and Quinston Reggins flushed three 3-point shots for the night while netting 10 of his 13 points in the second period.
San Jose City (11-8, 1-1 in conference) travels Friday for a 7 pm game to Monterey (12-10, 2-1 in conference), who last night dominated DeAnza in a 103-85 scorefest. San Jose City beat Monterey to win last month's Holiday Classic Tournament.
(report by Charles Heimler) |
83 - SJCC Hartnell College - 74 |
| Date: 1/12/2008 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 22 |
Game Notes: San Jose City College Men’s basketball team won its first conference game of the season against last year’s co-conference champion Hartnell College, in a game in which San Jose’s precise free throw shooting and press-and-trap defense trumped Hartnell’s precise 3-point shooting and fundamentally-sound, “Utah-style” basketball.
The first ten minutes of the game saw San Jose City and Hartnell trade the lead back and forth, and with 11 minutes left in the first half the score was tied 17-17. Hartnell’s pinpoint accurate 3-point shooting by sophomore guards Chris Romney, Kelly McCarthy, and Chris Warne powered the visitors to a 31-23 lead with 3 minutes remaining in the first half.
Then, two field goals by San Jose City’s Quinston Reggins, one of them a 3-point shot, and two field goals followed by penalty shots by San Jose City’s Isaiah Johnson, put the Jaguars back on top 34-31 with 16 clicks left on the first period clock. A three-point play by Hartnell’s freshman forward Ian Hosford sent the teams into the locker room deadlocked at 34-34.
San Jose City started the second half pressing and trapping while Hartnell’s Romney continued his run of 3 point shots, eventually draining 7 and ending the game with 25 points (7 3-PT, 1 2PT, 2FT), which kept the Salinas college team in the contest until the 13-minute mark when they led 47-44.
A 3-point basket by San Jose City’s freshman guard B.J. Lassiter tied the game and then San Jose City grabbed the lead for good on a field goal followed by a free throw by San Jose’s freshman forward Chris Randel.
A steal of a Hartnell pass by B.J. Lassiter, followed by a court-length pass to freshman guard Javin Charlot, converted to a contested lay-up, put City in the lead for good, 56-49, with 10 minutes left in the game.
San Jose City extended its lead to ten points, 71-61 with 5 minutes left in the game courtesy of two successive offensive put-backs by Lassiter.
San Jose switched to a man-to-man defense in the game’s last five minutes, which dampened Hartnell’s outside shooting.
In the game’s last 30 seconds, Lassiter grabbed another defensive rebound, hit the streaking Javin Charlot at mid-court, who then sent the ball into the paint to Kenny McGowan, who made a reverse, right-handed lay-up and subsequent trip to the free throw line for a 3-point play, putting the score at 81-68, and sealing the win for San Jose City.
Consistent free throw shooting (19 for 23, 83%) provided the margin of victory for the Jaguars, as the teams made the same number of field goals in the game. San Jose City maintained the margin at ten points until the last minute of the game based on the consistency of free throw shooty by Isaiah Johnson, who was 7 for 8 from the charity stripe. Quinston Reggins was 6 for 8 from the free throw line, and Kenny McGowan was 3 for 3.
In addition to his 21 points, Isaiah Johnson grabbed 13 rebounds.
B.J. Lassiter’s 14 points were complemented by 10 rebounds and 4 assists.
Kenny McGowan contributed 9 points and 3 assists.
Javin Charlot added 4 assists.
San Jose City College travels to its next two Coast Conference-South games, meeting Cabrillo College Wednesday night at 7:30 in Aptos and Monterey Friday/18 at 7 pm. San Jose City returns home Wednesday/23 at 7 pm against West Valley.
(Report written by Charles Heimler)
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59 - SJCC Chabot - 58 |
| Date: 1/5/2008 |
| Place: San Jose City College |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 18 |
Game Notes: San Jose City College almost saw a stellar first half performance in their last non-conference game of this season go to waste as Chabot (14-7) outscored the Jags in the second half to force San Jose to take back the game in overtime and win by the width of claw nail.
San Jose City came off their tournament championship a week ago energized as their defense shut down Chabot’s scoring for most of the first half. The visitors from South Alameda County managed only 6 points in the first 14 minutes of the game while San Jose City built a 14-6 lead through guard Quinston Reggins’ drives to the hoop combined with forward Tim Harrison’s free throws (5 for 6 in the first half).
Chabot rallied with 6 minutes left in the first period to come within 3, 17-14, when sophomore guard Alex Mallari found the range from 3-point land and sophomore forward Chris Woodbury hit two consecutive baskets, one a three-point play courtesy of a personal foul on City.
A basket off the dribble-drive by Kenny McGowan sparked a small resurgence for San Jose City, which was bolstered by 2 Isaiah Johnson free throws, a Johnson basket down under courtesy of an assist from Brandon Criss, and a trademark Quinston Reggins theft of a Chabot pass in the front court followed by a coast-to-coast layup. At the half, San Jose City led 28-19.
San Jose increased their lead to 11 points in the opening 3 minutes of the second half, when B.J. Lassiter, returning to the game after suffering an elbow-to-the face induced bloody nose, scored a trailer lay-up after Reggins stole another front court Chabot pass, fired to McGowan streaking downcourt, who then dished behind him to Lassiter on the trailer. At that point, it looked as if City’s defense and open court speed might make their advantage untouchable.
But San Jose’s offense sputtered as they ran up several personal fouls, turnovers resulting from dropped passes and fumbled rebounds, and a shot clock violation. Meanwhile, Chabot’s Chris Woodbury connected from inside and sophomore guard Kelvin Potts connected from outside to finally awaken Chabot’s offense, evening the score 51-51 with 2 minutes left in the game.
Reggins’ two free throws put San Jose up 53-51 in regulation time’s last minute, but they were matched by a Woodbury score on Chabot’s next possession. The game was sent into San Jose’s first overtime of the season at 53-53 when Chabot blocked a Reggins’ shot and Chabot’s Derieck Mosberg, a sophomore guard, bounced a 3 pointer off the side rim at the buzzer.
San Jose’s three field goals in overtime, 2 by Johnson and 1 by Lassiter, just edged Chabot’s two baskets and a foul shot to provide the difference in the game, which ended at 59-58 when Chabot misfired on 2 shots in the games’ last ten seconds.
Both Isaiah Johnson and Quinston Reggins grabbed 6 rebounds in the game, Brandon Criss contributed 5 rebounds, and Reggins added 4 assists.
The win helped moved San Jose City College to a #16 statewide ranking and to a #8 Northern California Ranking in the Coaches' Poll.
San Jose City opens its Coast Conference-South season in the next ten days against last year’s co-conference champions.
San Jose hosts Hartnell (4-11) on Saturday, January 12 at 3 pm, and on Wednesday, January 16, travels to Cabrillo (11-7, #15 rank in Northern California) for a 7:30 tip-off.
(Game notes by Charles Heimler)
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48 - SJCC Monterey - 43 |
| Date: 12/29/2007 |
| Place: Evergreen Valley College |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 12 |
Game Notes: The San Jose City College Men's Basketball Team prevailed in a see-saw, defensive struggle over Monterey Peninsula College, coached by former City assistant coach Blake Speiring, 48-43, to win the 9th annual Holiday Basketball Classic, hosted by San Jose City College at Evergreen Valley College.
San Jose City played the first half with two platoons applying a full court press, with several players contributing scores. San Jose City led 9-5 in early minutes of the first half thanks to two scores by Chris Randel, one a full-court cherry pick pass from Kenny McGowen. But at the mid-point of the first half, Monterey tied the score 9-9 courtesy of two back-to-back baskets by Adrian Hernandez, a 6-3 sophomore point guard, who has already signed a letter of intent to play next year for Tulsa.
Monterey surged to a four point lead, 17-13, with seven minutes left in the half, powered by two consecutive scores by James Sandoval, a 6-6 sophomore guard, who would later be named to the All-Tournament Team. San Jose City rallied back as forward Isaiah Johnson (Tourney co-MVP) hit two shots from the low post and Brandon Criss (All-Tournament Team) registered a tip-in and then a lay-up following a steal by guard Javin Charlot. Blocked shots by Johnson and Randel in the last minute of the half grounded Monterey’s scoring to a halt, and the half ended 24-23.
Monterey immediately surged ahead in the opening minutes of the second half, 27-25 as Sandoval hit a perimeter shot, followed by an alley-oop combination from Jermaine Carter (Seaside High School) to Theo Jackson (Palma High School). Monterey built on their momentum to lead by four points, 33-29 with 12 minutes left in the contest.
Then, forward Isaiah Johnson connected on a drive from the low post, B.J. Lassiter pinged a three-pointer, and Chris Randel put an offensive rebound back in the hole to regain the lead, 37-35 with 8 minutes left in the game.
Monterey still had one more rally left in them and grabbed the lead back with just under four minutes to play, 41-39, following a field goal by Michael Miller (Monterey High School) and a three-point score by Jermaine Carter.
With two and a half minutes left in the game, San Jose City’s Quinston Reggins (Tourney co-MVP) was fouled on a three-point shot and made the penalty for a 4-point play, putting San Jose City up 43-41. Reggins then stole a Monterey pass, Randel blocked a shot, and Kenny McGowen converted on two free throws, putting the score at 45-41 in San Jose City’s favor with 42 seconds left on the clock.
Monterey’s Denarrio Tatmon (All-Tournament Team), (Skyline High School), scored on a drive from down low putting the game score at 45-43 with 17 seconds left.
San Jose City then closed its grip on the win when Reggins made one of two foul shots following a drive from the top of the key, Johnson came out of his low-post position to block a Monterey shot, and Reggins was fouled again on a drive, netting two free throws to put the win in San Jose’s column, 48-43.
Reggins, Lassiter, Johnson, and Randel each scored three field goals, and Reggins’ 5 for 7 free throw shooting helped San Jose City’s offense.
The win surpassed City’s total number of wins last season.
The San Jose City College Jaguars face Chabot College in the last pre-conference game of the season at home Saturday, January 5 at 3 pm.
San Jose City opens its Coast-South Conference season at home, Saturday, January 12, at 3 pm against Hartnell, who last year shared the conference championship with Cabrillo College, who City plays in Aptos on Wednesday, January 16, at 7:30 pm.
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85 - SJCC Cosumnes River - 56 |
| Date: 12/28/2007 |
| Place: Evergreen Valley College |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 29 |
Game Notes: The San Jose City College Jaguars met Cosumnes River College in the semi-final game of the Holiday Tournament, scoring first on a three-point basket by Javin Charlot and never looking back, leading for the duration of the contest bolstered by the scoring combination of Charlot (14 points), B.J. Lassiter (13 points), and Quinston Reggins (29 points), who together combined for 56 of City’s point total.
Based on his previous night’s performance, Javin Charlot, a freshman from Gilroy High School, earned his first start of the season, and responded with three 3 point baskets in the first half. Charlot’s outside shooting streak combined with Lassiter’s two 3 point baskets and Reggins’s 3 field goals accounted for 21 of City’s 26 first period points.
City’s trapping defense thwarted Consumnes’ offense, which netted only 16 points in the first half. The Jags bested CRC 11-2 in the second ten minutes of the first half.
CRC opened the first four minutes of the second half with a 14-10 run to decrease City’s advantage to 34-30. Two put-back scores by Isaiah Johnson and a steal by Brandon Criss stopped Cosumnes’ momentum and set City up for a 15-3 run, putting the Jags back in control of the game, as they heated up their offense to build their lead, outscoring their opponents in the second period, 59-35.
Both Brandon Criss and B.J. Lassiter had 7 rebounds in the game as the Jags controlled the boards.
City faces Monterey Peninsula College in the tournament championship Saturday, 4 pm, at Everygreen Valley College.
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84 - SJCC Lassen - 70 |
| Date: 12/27/2007 |
| Place: Evergreen Valley College |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 19 |
Game Notes:
City hosted Lassen College, located in the northeast California town of Susanville, in their first game of the 9th annual Holiday Tournament at its sister school Evergreen Valley College.
The Jags, who are again ranked #15 in the Coaches Northern California poll, started slowly and found themselves down 12-3 after the first four minutes of the game against Lassen, an 8-8 team that had lost its last five games after squeaking out some quality wins early in the season.
The Jags began a comeback that would eventually enable them to surge ahead 15-14 with nine minutes left in the first period with two baskets by Isaiah Johnson in the low post. City took the lead when forward Brandon Criss grabbed an offensive rebound and coverted it into a score. From that point, City kept the lead, which was only threatened once at 21-21 with six minutes left in the first half. Johnson went on another 5 point scoring streak to regain the momentum for City.
A three point play by freshman guard Alex Cowley, who two plays later stole a pass to set up two free throws by BJ Lassiter (17 points for the game) put City up 41-32 at the half.
Javin Charlot came off the bench in the second period to contribute nine points as City controlled the game, leading by 13 points, 76-63 with 3 minutes left in the contest.
Lassen made it a 9 point game with 2 minutes left on the strength of perimeter shooting by Patrick Carlson, a sophomore guard.
Lassen's last gasp expired, however, when a baseball pass the length of the court from Javin Charlot to Isaiah Johnson, who then executed a 180-degree dunk, sent the message that the game was City's to keep.
The Tournament continues at 2 pm Friday and Saturday. Teams filling out the bracket include Santa Rosa, L.A. Southwest, Monterey, Orange Coast, Cosumnes River, and Cerritos.
City meets Cosumnes River College, coached by Jag former assistant coach and player James Giacomazzi, in a semi-final game at EVC Friday at 6 pm.
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65 - SJCC San Francisco - 69 |
| Date: 12/21/2007 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 23 |
Game Notes: San Francisco (13-2) brought its #1 ranking in the state to the Jaguars’ gym on a Friday night and quickly jumped out to a 14-5 lead in the first four minutes of the game. Midway through the first half, San Francisco had compiled a 14-point advantage, 29-15, and the atmosphere of a rout permeated the air. San Francisco, its previous visit to San Jose for a tournament game resulting in a one-game suspension for rushing L.A. Trade Tech’s bench and brawling, was focused on earning its “props” this night on the court.
But then, San Jose’s offense cohered, sparked by an 8-point scoring run (two 3-pointers) by freshman Quinston Reggins. City’s defense tightened its grip and forced 3 turnovers. At the end of the half, San Jose had closed the gap to 6 points, 41-35.
The second half began much like the first half, with San Francisco moving out to an 11-point lead in the first 3 minutes. At the 15 minute mark, San Francisco led by 13, powered by 3 point shots by Roburt Sallie, a freshman from Sacramento’s Valley High, and Robert Owens, a sophomore from Oakland’s Skyline High. City’s scoring was frustrated by the inability to convert several offensive rebounds into put-back scores on a night when the baskets from the floor and especially from the free throw line just did not seem to want to fall for City, which ended the night 12 for 22 (54.5%) from the charity stripe, and 25 for 64 (39%) from the floor.
With 12 minutes left in the game, an assist from San Jose’s B.J. Lassiter to Alex Cowley for the score put new life into the Jaguar offense, which then went on a tear fueled by assists from Kenny McGowan to Quinston Reggins, Josh Grant to forward Chris Randel and two put-backs by Brandon Criss. A steal by Randel, pass to Reggins, who then scored on a lay-up brought City to within 5 points, 60-55, with 6 minutes left in the contest, and the mood in the bleachers switched from dreading a blow-out to anticipating an upset.
A 3-point score followed on the next possession by a basket off the dribble drive by Quinston Reggins brought City to within 4 points with 1 minute left in the game. A defensive rebound by Kenny McGowan set the table for City to close within one point, but an apparent jump ball that was refereed a block gave possession back to San Francisco, which ran out the clock to preserve its win.
(Game notes by Charles Heimler)
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78 - SJCC Foothill College - 73 |
| Date: 12/18/2007 |
| Place: Los Altos |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 23 |
Game Notes: On a Tuesday night during finals week, San Jose made the short trip north on I 280 to meet Foothill College in a non-conference game. Although Foothill outscored the Jags 26-23, San Jose's 71% (25 for 35) free throw shooting was better than Foothill's, who went 9 for 13 from the free throw line. The fewer number of fouls called on City, along with their control of the boards (40-23 in rebounds) gave the advantage to City College.
Scoring by Quinston Reggins (15 points in the first period), Isaiah Johnson, and Brandon Criss staked City to a first half lead, 35-32. William "BJ" Lassiter, picked up the scoring slack in second half, contributing all of his 15 points for the game, hitting 5 of 7 free throws. Both Reggins and Johnson contributed 4 assists apiece to the offensive effort.
SJCC SCORING LEADERS
FG%
Isaiah Johnson .555,
Javin Charlot .476
ASSISTS
Quinston Reggins 3.2/game,
Kenny McGowan 2.8/game
3PT%
Javin Charlot .667,
Marshawn Landrine .412
FT%
Javin Charlot .889,
Kenny McGowan .865 |
76 - SJCC Diablo Valley College - 71 |
| Date: 12/8/2007 |
| Place: San Jose Classic Tourney |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 24 |
Game Notes: The Diablo Valley College Vikings, ranked 9th in the state entering this 3rd place tournament game, came off a loss to San Francisco. DVC grabbed the opening tip and immediately ran up a 9 point lead.
City's offense kicked into gear when Isaiah Johnson scored on 3 successive scores from under the basket. With the score even at 30, the two teams traded baskets and the lead through the first half, which ended with DVC leading 37-34, with the difference in play attributed to 4 3pt shots by DVC's Antonio Flaggs, who played half a year last year at Division 2 Humboldt before returning home and joining DVC for his sophomore year.
In the second half, the teams remained within 2 points of each other until Quinston Reggins scored 2 successive 3 point shots, which put City ahead to stay, 51-47 midway in the second half. Then, the Jags defense combined with key rebounds by Isaiah Johnson helped the Jags stay in control. A fake outside shot by Brandon Criss followed by an assist off the fake to Chris Randel under the basket sealed the deal at 70-67 in favor of the Jags, who closed out the last minute of play by forcing a turnover by DVC.
City's William BJ Lassiter was named to the All-Tournament team, his first such honor as a college player.
City's quality win in this game led to them getting ranked 14th in the North California Coach's poll, their first appearance in that poll in over a year.
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60 - SJCC L.A. Trade Tech - 87 |
| Date: 12/7/2007 |
| Place: San Jose Classic Tourney |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 25 |
Game Notes: L.A. Trade Tech brought their junior college version of "showtime" basketball to the Jags' gym in this semi-final game of the tournament. The visitors, who play in the shadow of the Staples Center in central L.A., average over 100 points per game and four alley-oop dunks per game.
San Jose ran with L.A. for most of the first half; both teams were tied at 9 in the early minutes of play, and City was down by only one bucket, 25-23, at the 8 minute mark, creeping toward L.A. with a Brandon Criss assist pass to Isaiah Johnson for a score from the low post.
With 5 minutes left in the half, Trade Tech went on a run paced by Centennial High School's Joseph Morgan's 3 pointers. At halftime, L.A. led S.J. 39-31
Cold free throw shooting, 30 percent, and cold field goal shooting, 34 percent, stymied the City offense. The Jags were able to keep L.A. from scoring their usual 100 points. |
79 - SJCC Alameda - 67 |
| Date: 12/6/2007 |
| Place: 28 th Annual San Jose Classic Tournament |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: William BJ Lassiter, 16 |
Game Notes: San Jose took the opening tip-off and Kenny McGowen made the first basket in the Jags' return to their home court. Sixty percent three point shooting in the first half sparked the Jaguar offense, paced by guards BJ Lassiter, Marshawn Landrine, and Jarvin Charlot. City led the visitors from the island city by the Bay 45-34 at the intermission.
Alameda closed within a basket 47-45 in the second half, on a 3-point basket by Kevin Johnson, a freshman from Oakland High School. Alameda's rally was stopped when City's Josh Grant, a crossover from City's football team, coverted a steal into a 2 point score, putting the score 49-45 at the 16 minute mark. From that point, the Jaguars controlled the game and stretched their lead to 14 points at one point, and went on to win.
Kenny McGowan finished with 14 points (6 for 6) from the free throw line; Marshawn Landrine had 13. Quinston Reggins contributed 6 assists. Forward Chris Randel netted 9 rebounds, 8 of them on defense. |
54 - SJCC Merced College - 64 |
| Date: 12/1/2007 |
| Place: Sacramento |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 20 |
Game Notes: City led Merced 33-30 after the first half of play, but Merced outscored SJCC 34-23 in the second half to avenge their previous loss to the Jags in the San Jose City-hosted Tip-Off Tournament.
City's Marshawn Landrine, a 6'2" freshman from San Jose's Oak Grove High School, had a breakout game, scoring three 3-point shots and two free throws for 11 points. |
66 - SJCC Feather River - 72 |
| Date: 11/30/2007 |
| Place: Sacramento |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 22 |
Game Notes: City College opened their first game in the James Clark Classic at Consumnes River College against Feather River College. City's Isaiah Johnson set the pace, scoring ten points in the game's first ten minutes. But the Jags found themselves trailing FRC 18-14 midway through the first half. City's 29 percent shooting versus Feather River's 57 percent in the first half put the Jags in the hole, 32-22, at the intermission.
In the second half, the Jags rallied from a 12-point deficit with 9 minutes left on the clock to tie the game, 60-60, on a perimeter shot by B.J. Lassiter, to send the game into City's first overtime game of the season.
Feather River outscored the Jags, 12-6, in overtime to win the game. Standout scores for City included B.J. Lassiter, 12, Isaiah Johnson, 11, and Tim Harrison, 10. Brandon Criss contributed 4 assists. |
52 - SJCC San Joaquin Delta College - 61 |
| Date: 11/25/2007 |
| Place: Diablo Valley Tournament |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 19 |
Game Notes: Sunday night's tournament championship game matched Delta, ranked #1 in the Northern California Coaches' Poll, with San Jose City, a mostly-freshman team who are charged with restoring the winning luster this year to the men's basketball program. City had won this tournament six times, and arrived in the final bracket having run up large margins of victory in two previous tournament games. Delta also had two wins in the tournament, and entered the game carrying the laurel of having won the Tip-Off Tournament earlier this month in San Jose.
In the first half, Delta posted a lead over the Jaguars built on three-point shooting by Roman Van Allen, a 5-11 sophomore who would later be named Tourney MVP. By the end of the second half, SJCC trailed the Stockton-based college 16-33, as their offense sputtered and their defense was a step behind Delta's attack.
City came alive for a few moments in the second half that featured some offensive gems such as assists from Brandon Criss to Isaiah Johnson, who both were later named to the All Tourney team. Quinston Reggins continued to menace the opponents' offense with steals that were converted to coast-to-coast layups. And 5-11 guard Kenny McGowan, playing with a wrist brace, hustled into the paint following shots into the land of giants under the basket to score on buckets following a rebound.
City outscored Delta 36-28 in the second half, and their revitalized effort in that period overcame what at one point was a 20-point lead to close within nine. Brandon Criss with 10 points was City's second highest scorer for the night. |
72 - SJCC Solano College - 49 |
| Date: 11/24/2007 |
| Place: Diablo Valley Tournament |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 20 |
Game Notes: San Jose City broke out of the starting blocks with the same high energy level they had exhibited the night before in a runaway win against Columbia College. Their trapping defense denied the Solano College offense, which the night before had stunned tournament host and perennial Bay 7 Conference champion Diablo Valley College 69-67.
This night, however, the Jaguars’ defense controlled the game, limiting Solano’s field goals made to 28 percent (16-57) and 3-pointers made to 22 percent (5-22).
The first ten minutes of the game were a see-saw contest between the two teams, who matched each other in the scoring column and were tied 16-16 with 5 minutes left in the first half. Freshman Kenny McGowen, who missed one game with an injury, returned in this game and put the Jaguars ahead for good with a free throw. Solano then suffered an 8-0 run at the hands of the Jaguars, and the first half closed with SJCC leading 28-21.
City’s 44-28 margin in the second half was fueled by numerous steals of Solano’s passes followed by lay-ups after the fast break transition by William “B.J” Lassiter, Quinston Reggins, Brandon Criss, and Kenny McGowen. Assists by guards Reggins and McGowen fed forwards Isaiah Johnson, Josh Grant, and Tim Harrison underneath the basket for scores. Reggins was the second leading scorer with 16 points, ten of them free throws after getting fouled on dribble-drives from the top of the key.
Over one-third (36 percent) of the Jags' points came from the free throw line---Isaiah Johnson was a perfect 6/6, Reggins 10/12, McGowen 4/6, and Charlot, a 6-0 freshman guard from Gilroy High School, was a perfect 3/3. The win put the Jaguars in Sunday’s championship game against San Joaquin Delta College, who beat City’s Coast-North Division rival Cabrillo and then Ohlone College to arrive in the final bracket matchup. Delta won the season’s opening Tip-Off Tourney on the Jaguars’ home court two weeks ago.
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91 - SJCC Columbia - 72 |
| Date: 11/23/2007 |
| Place: DVC Chevron Tournament |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: William Lassiter, 24 |
| Game Notes: Columbia built a 31-15 lead in the first ten minutes of the game on the strength of 3-point shooting. Then, the Jaguars took control of the game with effective defensive trapping.
City caught and passed Columbia on a put-back by William "BJ" Lassiter at the 2 minute mark. That play cemented the momentum change of the game as the Jags outscored Columbia 24-4 in the second half of the first period, posting a 39-35 edge at intermission.
Down 10 points in the first half, City woke up when Lassiter blocked a Columbia pass, Johnson scored and converted on a free throw, and Lassiter then pinged a 3 pointer, one of his three for the occasion. A Reggins drive and assist to Armstrong under the basket put the Jags ahead to stay after Lassiter grabbed a rebound witht he put-back resulting in the Jags taking the lead at 34-33. SJCC outscored Columbia 52-37 to win the game.
The Jags entered the semi-final game of the tournamet by virtue of their win, facing Solano College, who sent tourney host DVC to the Consolation bracket in the night's marquee contest.
Besides Lassiter, a 6-3 freshman guard from Pinole, four other Jags scored in double digits--Quinston Reggins, a 6-1 freshman guard had 19, Martin Armstrong, a 6-4 freshman from San Jose's Yerba Buena High school had 15, Isaiah Johnson, a 6-4 and lone sophomore on the squad, scored 13, and Josh Grant, a 6-4 freshman from San Jose's Oak Grove High School, scored 11. |
55 - SJCC Skyline - 57 |
| Date: 11/17/2007 |
| Place: San Bruno |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 21 |
| Game Notes: Skyline chipped away at City's lead through the second half and tied the game with one minute left. An ill-timed foul and a technical foul gave the game away to Skyline. The Jag's offense faltered in late in the second half when Freshman guard Kenny McGowan left injured after a collison with a Skyline player. The Jags had controlled much of the game until a 4-13 run in favor of Skyline in the last five minutes made it a contest at the end. |
82 - SJCC Merced - 51 |
| Date: 11/11/2007 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Isaiah Johnson, 23 |
| Game Notes: The Jaguars made some adjustments and roared back in the 3rd place Tourney game.
SAN JOSE TOURNEY.
Champions: Delta.
Second Place: Modesto.
Third Place: SJCC.
Consolation: Skyline.
MVP: Roman Van Allen Delta;
All Tourney Team ;
Aaron Wilson-Delta;
Benny Flores-Delta;
Brian Bergerson-Modesto;
Eleazar Jones-Modesto;
Quinston Reggins-SJCC.......
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63 - SJCC Modesto - 81 |
| Date: 11/10/2007 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 19 |
| Game Notes: Modesto's front line and five returning Sophomores out-muscled the Jags in this second game of the Tip-Off Classic. |
88 - SJCC Pasadena - 73 |
| Date: 11/9/2007 |
| Place: San Jose |
| SJCC's Leading Scorer: Quinston Reggins, 33 |
| Game Notes: The Jags opened their season with a win in the Tip-Off Classic Tournament. |
Men's Basketball 2007 / 2008
Game Results
Overall Record: 16 - 14 - 0
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