ILH Boys Basketball
AOP tops University, 51-37, to stay perfect at 3-0 in ILH


Wes Nakama
January 7, 2012, 7:00pm

    


Sat, Jan 7, 2012 @ Mid-Pacific

University Lab

37

AOP

51

Final 1 2 3 4  
University Lab (8-5, 13-8) 6 8111237
AOP (8-4, 19-8) 16 6 16 1351
A. Mkrtychyan 12 pts
C. Conant 15 pts
Artur Mkrtychyan scored 12 points and younger brother Arkadiy Mkrtychyan added 11 points this afternoon as Academy of the Pacific held off University High, 51-37, in Interscholastic League of Honolulu boys basketball action at Mid-Pacific.

The Dolphins improved to 3-0 in league play, alone atop the ILH standings. AOP defeated Punahou, 60-51, on Tuesday and Kamehameha, 57-48, on Thursday. UHS, in its first season of Division I after several years in DII, fell to 1-1.

"All those tournaments were to prepare us for the regular season, and our goal was to be 3-0 after this week," Dolphins coach Walter Marciel said.

After Anthony Canencia's 3-pointer closed it to 6-5 three minutes into the game, Wilson Macleod answered with his own 3 thirty seconds later to start AOP on an 11-1 run to finish the period.

The Junior 'Bows closed it to 20-14 on Cameron Conant's layup with 2:42 remaining in the half, Marshall Gourley responded with a layup and the Dolphins took a 22-14 lead into the break.

Mattia Raebel later hit a 3-pointer with 3 seconds left in the third quarter to put AOP up, 38-25, heading into the fourth.

The Dolphins then scored the first five points of the final period to push the lead to 43-25, and UHS could not get closer than 12 points the rest of the way.

"UH is a tough team, their guards are terrific," Marciel said. "We had a tough time matching up with them, so we had to play all six of our guards."

Conant led all scorers with 15 points.



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