Tigers hoops teams continue march to playoffs with easy wins Thursday against El Diamante

Lemoore's Allidap Camacho breaks away from El Diamante defenders.
Lemoore's Allidap Camacho breaks away from El Diamante defenders.
Photo by Bill Burris, lemooresports.com

Lemoore's boys' and girls' basketball teams continued their march to the playoffs with a pair of wins Thursday night. In Visalia, the boys turned on the afterburners to beat El Diamante 74-56 to improve to 15-2 and 4-0 in the WYL. Meantime the Lady Tigers took advantage of some home cooking to crush the Miners in the Event Center 69-47 and improve their mark to 3-1 in league and 12-5 overall.

The girls are scheduled to visit Ridgeview for the MLK shootout on Saturday. Their next league contest is schedule for January 20 at Golden West High School. The boys are scheduled for a Saturday game at Edison High School in Fresno's MLK Tipoff. The Tigers will play Roosevelt High. The boys will return to LHS for a Jan. 20 game against Golden West.

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Winning is getting to be a habit at Lemoore High School where on Tuesday, the varsity boys’ team easily beat visiting Mt. Whitney 88-43. The closest the Pioneers ever got to the Tigers was when they left the bus in the parking lot. From there it was all downhill as Lemoore improved to 3-0 in the West Yosemite League and are 14-2 overall.

The Tigers dominated from start to finish and held a 51-21 halftime lead.

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Jazmine Taylor scores against El Diamante.
Jazmine Taylor scores against El Diamante.
Photo by Bill Burris, lemooresports.com

The Tigers hit the road again tomorrow (Jan. 14) for yet another WYL matchup, this time with El Diamante, which enters the game at 10-8 overall and 1-1 in league.

In girls’ action, the varsity team continued its winning ways as well, beating the Pioneers in Visalia 53-31 to improve to 2-1 in the WYL and 11-5 overall.

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Jazmine Taylor led all scorers with 19 points. Alyssa Vasquez tossed 7 and Monica Lopez had 6 points. The Lady Tigers will host El Diamante Thursday (Jan. 14). The Lady Miners are 6-12 overall and 1-2 in league play. 

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