The La Jolla Country Day (LJCD) Lady Torreys defeated the Horizon Lady Panthers, 70-29, in a Coastal League basketball game at Horizon last Friday, Feb. 19. “Our pressure was really good tonight,” said Country Day coach Terri Bamford. \u00a0“Especially our defensive pressure.” LJCD jumped out to a quick 12-4 lead early in the first quarter. Kelsey Plum, a 5-foot-9 freshman, led the Lady Torrey run with nine points, while 5-foot-7 junior Kaylah Miller added two and 5-foot-8 freshman Briteesha Solomon scored one point of her own. Country Day continued to pour it on with a 15-4 run to extend the edge to 27-8 at the end of the first quarter. Plum led LJCD with 14 points in the period, while Solomon scored five, Miller added two and 5-10 sophomore Mya Hood had six. In the second quarter, Country Day went on a crushing 24-4 scoring run to cruise into the locker room at halftime with a 51-12 cushion. “We executed exceptionally well in the first half,” Bamford said. After the intermission, it was more of the same as the Lady Torreys outscored the Lady Panthers 11-7 to advance their advantage to 62-19 at the end of the third quarter. Hood had five points in the period for LJCD, while Plum, Solomon and 5-foot-6 senior Ariana Elegado each picked up two apiece. Unfortunately for Horizon, that\u2019s about as close as they would get as the officials chose to go with a running clock in the fourth quarter. Plum finished with a game-high 23 points and was followed in the Country Day scoring column by Solomon (19 points), Hood (14 points and her seventh double-double of the season), Elegado (7 points) and Miller (7 points). In more Coastal League action earlier in the week, the Lady Torreys defeated the Francis Parker Lady Lancers 78-24 at Francis Parker on Wednesday, Feb. 17. Solomon finished with a game-high 25 points and was followed in the Country Day scoring column by Plum (22 points), Hood (14 points), Miller (8 points), Elegado (4 points), 5-foot-7 junior Shayla Dinwiddie (4 points), and 5-foot-3 freshman Brianne Yasukochi (1 point). LJCD concludes the regular season with a record of 22-3 overall and 8-0 in Coastal League play.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The La Jolla Country Day (LJCD) Lady Torreys defeated the Horizon Lady Panthers, 70-29, in a Coastal League basketball game at Horizon last Friday, Feb. 19. “Our pressure was really good tonight,” said Country Day coach Terri Bamford. \u00a0“Especially our defensive pressure.” LJCD jumped out to a quick 12-4 lead early in the first quarter. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":283540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Lady Torreys clinch Coastal South League","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11553,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}