March 3 Sac-Joaquin Section playoff basketball

is this a final yet?

Franklin is up 57-46 over Rodrguez with 4:48 left in the game.

HOLD THE PHONE!

Rodriguez has gone on a run and has tied it up at 59-all with 2:25 left.

over yet

And Franklin-EG holds off Rodriguez 69-67. If Rodriguez hit its free throws down the stretch, maybe a different story.

Franklin's Amir Carraway scoresd 19 and Michael Rosaroso scores 18.
Rodriguez's Rashaad Allen pours in 26 points, including four 3-pointers.

AFter Sheldon scores the game's first seven points, Golden Valley comes back with five in a row. Donte Scott 3 opened the scoring for the Cougars. And Garrett Hill scores to make it 7-7 with 3:00 left in the first!

And GV's Justin Wootten, a curly-headed 5-foot-8 junior, hit a deep 3-pointer for a 12-12 score after the first quarter!

Lets go GV!

And we're back after a quarter-long break.

It's 29-all with 6:12 left in the third quarter. Yes. it's going to be a long night.

Darius Nelson leads Sheldon with 10 points, and John Sykes has 10 to lead the Cougars.

Semifinals at Arco Arena
ADMISSION: $17/adults, $8/students
PARKING: $12-cars/$30-buses
4:00 – Folsom/Enochs winner vs. Merced/Burbank winner (Div. I Boys)
5:30 – Golden Valley/Sheldon winner vs. Rodriguez/Franklin(EG) winner (Div. I Boys)
7:30 – Rocklin vs. Wood (Div. II Boys)
9:00 – Fairfield vs. Bella Vista (Div. II Boys)

  Friday, March 6

Finals at Arco Arena
ADMISSION: $17/adults, $8/students
PARKING: $12-cars/$30-buses
4:00 – Division V Girls
5:30 – Division V Boys
7:30 – Division III Girls
9:00 – Division III Boys

  Saturday, March 7

Finals at Arco Arena
ADMISSION: $17/adults, $8/students
PARKING: $12-cars/$30-buses
12:00 – Division IV Girls
1:30 – Division II Girls
3:30 – Division IV Boys
5:00 – Division II Boys
7:00 – Division I Girls
8:30 – Division I Boys

And a DOnte Scott 3-pointer from the left wing gives GV a 38-32 lead with 4:12 left in the third.

Really good student turnout for GV. They're keeping things alive and yelling almost non-stop.

Sheldon's Marcus Jackson at the FT Line right now. And the first is good. ... And the second is ... good!

It's all tied at 40-40 with 2:17 left in the third quarter.

And Golden Valley takes a 45-43 lead into the fourth quarter.

GV has a good following, there kids are fanatics! Its funny, I love it.

Darius Nelson just picked up his fourth foul with 6:10 left.

GV drives inside and Sykes shooting two. Miss. Miss.

GV leads 50-49 with 6:00 left.

GV takes a timeout. With 5:14 left, it's the Cougars 50, Sheldon 49.

C'mon GV!!!

3:00 left, Sheldon up 56-55.

Scott Livesay layup in traffic for a GV 57-56 lead. Than Darius Nelson hits the bucket on the other end, with the foul on Livesay and he's shooting a free throw aafter this timeout. It's 58-57 Sheldon with 2:29 left.

Sink it and man up!

Defense!

Defense!

Defense!

Nelson FT good, then they strip Sykes and pass to SHeldon for a layup woth 2:20 left (61-57 Sheldon).

GV goes down and gets the ball to Sykes down low. And Livesay with a 3 right after that! GV up 62-61. Sheldon misses shot, Livesay rebound and foul on Sheldon on the other end. Fletcher shooting two and GV up 62-61 with 1:01 left!

FLetcher 1 of 2 FTs and Sheldon ball, GV up 63-61 with :50 left. And Sheldon throws the ball away on the other end! GV ball.

Wow!

Make those freethrows baby!

SHeldon fouls Sykes. Looks like they may be fouling from here on out. Could be a long 38.6 seconds.

Whats the foul count?

Sykes 2-2 from the FT line (65-61).

Marcus Jackson drives the length of the court and draws a foul and is shooting two. Good. Good.

And GV gets the ball across halfcourt as Sheldon chases. GV takes a timeout with 19.0 seconds left, up 65-63 and with the ball. Shot clock turned off.

GV: 10, Sheldon: 9

Clock ball.

Will ...tell me the good news!

GV sophomore Garrett Hill fouled and at the line. Miss. Good.

And Sykes is called for a foul with 17.5 seconds left. Nelson at the line. Good. Good.

GV up 66-65 wwith 17.5 left!

Sheldon fouls Fletcher. Miss. Good. And it's 67-65 with 15 left!

Jackson drives in, misses inside shot. Tewo Sheldon guys battle each other for the board and it falls off a third Sheldon player and out of bounds. GV ball and Sheldon immediately fouls Sykes. He's 3-7 from the line in this quarter, having mad his last three.

Defense!

Defense!

Defense!

3.9 seconds left. Sykes at the line. Miss. Good. GV leads 68-65 with 3.9 left and Sheldon takes its last timeout.

Sykes is money!

Lets go!

Finish them!

And SHeldon bobbles and drops the inbound! FLetcher picks it up and is fouled y Darius Nelson (his fifth foul). The GV students chanting the na-na-hey-hey good-bye song and Fletcher at the line to ice it.

Give it to us Will.

An d that's it! Golden Valley beats SHeldon 69-65 and a mad pile at halfcourt. The Cougar Crazies going, well, crazy.

Yes!

Congrats to GV, may the run continue! Nice job.

Will's on an impossible deadline for writing the Enochs-Folsom game story for the print version of the Modesto Bee, so I'll be taking over the live blogging.

We're expecting tipoff around 9:30, so we're a solid 30 minutes behind schedule tonight.

This is a 1 vs. 8 game, with No. 1 Folsom coming off an 80-41 demolition of Armijo in Friday's opening round. Enochs, the co-champion of the Modesto Metro Conference, dispatched Pitman 73-61 in the first playoff game in the history of EHS.

The winner of this game meets Merced on Thursday at 4 p.m. at ARCO in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division I semifinal. Golden Valley will meet Franklin at 5:30 in the other semifinal.

Starting lineups to follow...

Enochs
G - Tyler Wasden 6-0 sr
G - Matt Iles 5-10 so
F - Chad Boyarsky 6-2 sr
G - Kolton Pico 5-10 sr
C - Marcus Bell 6-9 sr

Folsom
G - Kori Babineaux 6-3 so
F - Brandon Babineaux 6-4 sr
G - Tony Johnson 5-11 sr
G - Patrick Akins 6-2 sr
C - Tyler Horwath 6-4 sr

Here we go...

7-0 start on 3 easy baskets causes Enochs to call timeout. 6:41 left in first quarter. Enochs has committed two turnovers and has yet to get off a shot.

It looks like Folsom is wearing Beyer's home jerseys. Bulldogs grabbing every rebound, but soph Matt Iles hits two 3-pointers to get Eagles going. The 3-pointer should be there at the start with Folsom playing a zone.

12-6 Folsom 4:30 1st q

Abel Watts and Scott Robertson check in to make enochs 6-9, 6-7, 6-6 across the back line. This worked very well against Pitman, we'll see how it works here.

Enochs' offense not doing much. Bell gets a slam off a fast break rebound, but Folsom's defense keeping the Eagles off-rhythm.

1st quarter stats to come, but off the top of my head I'd say that Enochs had 8-10 turnovers in the opener.