After a grueling seven games in 10 days, the Copper Mountain men’s basketball team dropped back-to-back games. Friday night proved to be a tough one for Copper Mountain men’s basketball team as they dropped a very ugly game to Cuesta College 78-69. They lost another hard-fought battle to the host Modesto Junior college in the third-place game of the 80th annual tournament Saturday night, 86-81. CMC sits at 12-4 on the year and will have a much needed break from now through the Christmas holiday before they are back in action December 30 against Compton College in Joshua Tree at the Bell Center; tip-off is 6 p.m.
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By Assistant Coach Britain Kelly
Friday night proved to be a tough one for Copper Mountain men’s basketball team as it seemed like they played in the Twilight Zone all night long and dropped a very ugly game to a super-hot sharp-shooting team in Cuesta College. Cuesta made a ton of tough shots and kept the Fighting Cacti on their heels all night. After 9 p.m. tip-off, CMC could never really get going. Cuesta made shot after shot and went into the half 41-38. Nothing really changed for the Fighting Cacti in the second half as Cuesta made consecutive 3-point shots and stretched the lead to almost 20 points at one point. Despite the valiant effort from Jaleel Simmons, who led all scorers with 26 points, and Tre’Von Bentley who added 10 points, it’s wasn’t enough to close the gap and Copper Mountain took the loss 78-69.
After a grueling seven games in 10 days, the Copper Mountain men’s basketball team dropped back-to-back games for the first time this season, losing another hard fought battle to the host Modesto Junior college in the third-place game of the 80th annual tournament Saturday night. With minor nagging injuries and mental exhaustion plaguing CMC, it seemed as if they could never really get rolling Saturday. They went back and forth the entire game but fell just short at the end 86-81 to the Pirates of MJC. Ronald Bell had 21 points and Murshid Randle added 18 points to lead the Fighting Cacti in scoring. CMC sits at 12-4 on the year and will have a much needed break from now through the Christmas holiday before they are back in action December 30th against Compton College in Joshua Tree at the Bell Center, 6 pm Tip off.
COPPER MOUNTAIN BASKETBALL DROPS TWO IN A TOUGH TOURNAMENT
