When sophomore guard Phoenix Smith came off the bench on Monday night in Crespi\u2019s season opener against Cleveland, two things were clear: His big hair and his 5-foot-7 frame, the smallest on the court.<\/p>\n
He played junior varsity last season, and let\u2019s just say Celts coach Derek Fisher is going to have fun working with him. Smith was three for three on three-pointers and finished with 16 points in Crespi\u2019s 81-44 win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n
He put together a nine-point surge between the end of the first quarter and the start of the second quarter. Leaving him open this season will not be a good strategy. Another JV player from last season, Cayman Martin, led Crespi in scoring with 17 points. Carter Barnes had 14 points and Isaiah Barnes 13 points.<\/p>\n
Crespi has a big game coming up Saturday at Pauley Pavilion against Mater Dei.<\/p>\n
St. Bernard 81, Claremont 56: <\/b>Brandon Granger led St. Bernard with a 30-point performance.<\/p>\n
South Pasadena 77, Franklin 43: <\/b>Nick Rios scored 22 points and Rob Khollesi added 21 points for South Pasadena.<\/p>\n
Carson 59, South East 37: <\/b>The Colts are 2-0 under new coach Corey Kitani. Blake McCall had 16 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n
Mira Costa 85, Torrance 70: <\/b>Logan Dugdale finished with 18 points and Paxx Bell had 17 points and 12 rebounds in a first-round game at the Ocean View tournament.<\/p>\n
Wiseburn Da Vinci 73, Oak Park 56:<\/b> Aidan Ebrahimi had 15 points for Wiseburn Da Vinci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When sophomore guard Phoenix Smith came off the bench on Monday night in Crespi\u2019s season opener against Cleveland,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,13593,184531,184535,184533,92008,55874,22100,1589,184532,449,24566,5395,103594,179587,106176,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,184534],"class_list":["post-386717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-cleveland","tag-crespi","tag-isaiah-barnes","tag-junior-varsity-last-season","tag-mater-dei","tag-monday-night","tag-pauley-pavilion","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-smith","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-saturday","tag-season-opener","tag-south-pasadena","tag-st-bernard","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wiseburn-da-vinci"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115568703337760217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}