No. 5 Tartars Rebound with 96-84 Win over LA Harbor in Coaches vs. Cancer Game
Sophomore DaJion Henderson scored a career-high 23 points to lead the No. 5 El Camino College Compton Center men’s basketball team (23-4, 6-1) to a 96-84 win over LA Harbor (9-15, 3 -4) on Wednesday evening.
Compton, Calif. – Sophomore DaJion Henderson scored a career-high 23 points to lead the No. 5 El Camino College Compton Center men's basketball team (23-4, 6-1) to a 96-84 win over LA Harbor (9-15, 3 -4) on Wednesday evening.
As the Coaches vs. Cancer game, the Tartars sported blue and yellow socks in the game – blue for prostate cancer awareness and yellow in honor of former Tartar, Carthal McDonald, who passed away in October from synovial sarcoma.
ECC Compton Center trailed going into the locker room at the 42-36 mark, but the trio of Henderson and sophomores Kyvonte Davis and Jayvon Brown combined for 36 of the team's 60 second-half points. The team capitalized on LA Harbor's 12 second-half turnovers, converting them to 24 points on the board.
After the 10th and final tie score of the game at 70 each with 8:29 remaining, Davis started the scoring for the Tartars with a layup to give the team the go-ahead lead. ECC Compton Center closed out the game on an 11-5 run with Henderson scoring over half of the final points.
Davis posted his second-straight career-high setting game with 21 points, adding five rebounds, four assists, and three steals. Brown and sophomore Anthony Fitzpatrick added 16 and 10 points, respectively.
The Seahawks' Donal Hughes paced all players with 28 points and 12 rebounds.
The Tartars head to El Camino next on Friday, Feb. 10 for a 5 p.m. tip.
ECC Compton Center Notes: Sophomore DaJion Henderson counted a career-high 10 field goals made in his career-high 23 points … Sophomore Kyvonte Davis scored a career-high 21 points … The Tartars have won the last three meetings against the Seahawks … The last time ECC Compton Center earned 23 wins in a season was the 1999-00 season when it finished 26-5 overall … Sophomore Alonzo Taylor has counted double-digit points games in each conference contest … In South Coast Conference play, the Tartars are No. 1 for points (187), free throw attempts per game (31.8), total rebounds per game (47.7), steals per game (12.8), and points per game (97.8) … The team is No. 1 in the state for total points (2,510), points per game (93.0), field goals made per game (34.7), offensive rebounds per game (17.1) and steals per game (12.3) … The team's 15-game winning streak was the longest of the season by any team in the state.