By Ed Piper
La Jolla, trailing host St. Augustine by an embarrassing 59-31 with 2:20 left in the third quarter, battled back to cut the final margin to 15 points, 75-60.
Here's how.
Alex Pitrofsky, who would eventually be removed after impulsively pushing a Saints player with both forearms in front of his chest--though he didn't harm the player--and Morgan Albers scored the bulk of the points under the direction of point guard Reed Farley.
Pitro, who only scored two points in the first half, netted 10 in the third quarter and two more in the fourth. Albers, coming off the bench as a reserve in his usual role in Coach Paul Baranowski's eight-man rotation, scored nine in the fourth quarter, including a rare three-pointer. That's 19 of the 29 points the Vikings scored in their rally to leave the building with their dignity intact.
The 6'6" Alex connected on four baskets and made four of eight free throws.
Albers, like Pitrofsky a senior nearing the end of his high school career at La Jolla, had three field goals in addition to his bucket beyond the arc from the left baseline.
The other points were distributed among reserve guard Tony Coan, who hit a basket, a three-pointer, and two free throws, Nick Hammel, who had a basket in each of the third and fourth quarters (plus a free throw in the third), and Farley, who sank two of four free throws.
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