John Camden scored a game-high 22 points in his Cal debut, Lee Dort missed the first double-double of his college career by one rebound and the Golden Bears routed Cal State Bakersfield 87-60 in both teams\u2019 season opener on Monday in Berkeley, Calif.<\/p>\n
Starting four newly arrived transfers, Cal also got double-figure scoring from Dai Dai Ames with 18 points and Justin Pippen with 15 en route to the runaway win. Dort wound up with 15 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n
Dailin Smith and Ronald Jessamy had 16 points apiece for the Roadrunners, who were playing for the first time under new coach Mike Scott.<\/p>\n
Camden, a transfer from Delaware, where he averaged 16.8 points per game last season, got Cal\u2019s season off to a thrilling start by turning an Ames assist into a 3-point hoop just 13 seconds into the duel of teams that had identical 14-19 records last season.<\/p>\n
With lone starting holdover Dort contributing two hoops, the Golden Bears proceeded to run off the game\u2019s first 10 points and never trailed.<\/p>\n
A layup by Smith got Bakersfield as close as 18-16 just past the midpoint of the first half, but Camden responded with a four-point play on a 3-point hoop and Cal went on to lead 37-26 at the break.<\/p>\n
With Dort igniting things with a dunk and Camden adding a dunk of his own and another 3-pointer, Cal ran off to a 48-28 advantage in the third minute of the second period and never looked back.<\/p>\n
Camden finished with three 3-pointers in a game that featured a total just eight. Cal went 5-for-23 (21.7%) from beyond the arc, while Cal State Bakersfield made just 3 of 9.<\/p>\n
Dort shot 5-for-7, Camden 7-for-11 and Ames 9-for-15 for the Golden Bears, who outshot the visitors 54.2% to 35.8%.<\/p>\n
Pippen also found time for a game-high seven assists.<\/p>\n
Jessamy was Bakersfield\u2019s leading rebounder with seven, while backups Mike Price and Jaden Alexander shared assist honors with three each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Camden scored a game-high 22 points in his Cal debut, Lee Dort missed the first double-double of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-37336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37336","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=37336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}