Austin Carvalho and Jakob Conlan went for career highs with 18
and 10 points, and Luke Laguna scored 11 to help Live Oak beat
Mount Pleasant 55-40 on Tuesday in West Valley Division boys
basketball. The Acorns, now a win away from becoming playoff
eligible, opened a key four-game homestand with one of their best
all-around efforts of the season.
Austin Carvalho and Jakob Conlan went for career highs with 18 and 10 points, and Luke Laguna scored 11 to help Live Oak beat Mount Pleasant 55-40 on Tuesday in West Valley Division boys basketball.
The Acorns, now a win away from becoming playoff eligible, opened a key four-game homestand with one of their best all-around efforts of the season.
“This is our best win of the year by far,” Live Oak coach Brett Paolucci said. “We needed this.”
Eddie Plascencia and Nathaniel Batey came off the bench to contribute seven points apiece for the Acorns (9-11, 6-4), who avenged a 54-36 loss from Jan. 10. Both players made 3-pointers, as did Laguna and Conlan (two).
Live Oak moved into a tie with Mount Pleasant (7-13, 6-4) for fourth place.
The Cardinals, one of the tallest teams in the league, received 11 points from Previn Wong and eight from Dantorie Reeves.
The Acorns led 19-13 at halftime and kept the pedal down the rest of the way en route to their second win in three games.
- Sobrato battled close with Leigh for the second time this season only to fall 49-34 on Tuesday in Mount Hamilton Division play.
The visiting Bulldogs were undone by a cold second quarter.
Sobrato (3-17, 1-9) had 13 points from Travis Saenz and nine from Ben Vater.
Kimo Francisco had 14 points, and Anthony Lyndon scored a dozen for Leigh (13-7, 6-4).
Boys soccer
Ben Hartl and Alexis Diaz connected for a goal, and Live Oak snapped a four-game winless streak with a 1-0 victory over winless Independence on Tuesday at LOHS.
Diaz scored in the first half for the Acorns (6-4-4, 3-4-2).
Girls soccer
Today’s Mount Hamilton Division game between Live Oak and Sobrato will be like a signing day party for Live Oak’s Kirsten Doting, Tiffany Geer, Megan Rauschnot and Sami Riolo and Sobrato’s Maggie Cropp.
All five have inked letters of intent with NCAA Division I programs. Rauschnot and Riolo will play soccer at San Jose State; Geer will do the same at San Diego State, and Cropp at Mercer. Doting is headed to Pacific to play field hockey.
