Josiah Nance, a 6-foot-4 junior guard, volunteered to guard 7-foot-4 Cherif Millogo of St. Francis in the third quarter on Thursday night in a tight game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a challenge,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were letting us be tough. Most physical guy wins.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nance couldn\u2019t have been more correct. He was so effective guarding Millogo despite having three fouls that Notre Dame turned a five-point halftime lead into a 20-point bulge through three quarters en route to a 71-48 victory.<\/p>\n
Millogo picked up three offensive fouls in the second half because of his frustration. He also was limited to four points after scoring 13 points in the first half.<\/p>\n
Nance said it was the first time he guarded anyone close to that tall, and he embraced the challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried to get under him because he\u2019s huge,\u201d Nance said. \u201cEvery time he caught it in the post, we doubled him. I love defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Said Notre Dame coach Matt Sargeant: \u201cAll-time defensive performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
NaVorro Bowman led Notre Dame (15-6, 2-2) in scoring with 21 points. Zach White added 15 points. It was a key Mission League victory and kept the Knights\u2019 Open Division playoff hopes alive. St. Francis dropped to 18-4.<\/p>\n
Crespi 63, Chaminade 52: Isaiah Barnes had 18 points and Cayman Martin added 16 points for the Celts.<\/p>\n
Harvard-Westlake 47, Loyola 36: Joe Sterling finished with 13 points for the Wolverines.<\/p>\n
Sierra Canyon 83, Bishop Alemany 48: Maxi Adams contributed 22 points and 10 rebounds and Brannon Martinsen added 18 points for Sierra Canyon (17-1, 4-0).<\/p>\n
Arcadia 72, Crescenta Valley 54: Owen Eteuati Edwards finished with 23 points and 18 rebounds for Arcadia.<\/p>\n
Milken 70, AGBU 32: Grayson Coleman made eight of 11 from three-point range and finished with 30 points.<\/p>\n
Etiwanda 61, Rancho Cucamonga 56: Achilles Orji had 20 points for Etiwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josiah Nance, a 6-foot-4 junior guard, volunteered to guard 7-foot-4 Cherif Millogo of St. Francis in the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5095,3760,11155,69317,9831,51743,69315,48,52,51,47,50,49,29710,69316,23139,1417,7556,29947,26568,14921],"class_list":["post-136011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arcadia","tag-challenge","tag-defense","tag-etiwanda","tag-first-time","tag-foul","tag-josiah-nance","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-milken","tag-millogo","tag-notre-dame","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-sierra-canyon","tag-st-francis","tag-third-quarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}