By Ed Piper, Jr.
Through the first four games of the 2016-17 basketball season, all in the Hilltop Invitational, La Jolla has two cogs that stand out statistically in their team-oriented offense and defense.
Junior Charlie Gal, who is playing a lot of minutes under the basket doing a lot of the pick-and-shovel work against opposing teams' big men, leads the Vikings in both scoring and rebounding. The second-year varsity player is averaging 17.3 points and 12.5 rebounds. That's a lot of rebounds.
Out at the point but also spending time on the right wing--not a political statement--senior Reed Farley has 16.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 3.5 steals, and 2.3 blocks per game, the last leading Coach Paul Baranowski's team. The high-leaping Farley looks for every opportunity he can to get a block, especially on opposing players' layups.
Forward Daniel McColl, Gal's partner in crime as a fellow bruise brother under the boards, is putting up 6.5 points and 6.5 rebounds a game. McColl is a senior.
Lefty guard Quinn Rawdin, a regular starter in his junior year, has 6.8 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.8 steals a game from his backcourt position.
The offense is shooting 44 percent. Farley pointed to this when he said after a Hilltop tourney game last week, "We haven't been shooting the ball well." That percentage is not going to float a lot of (Viking) boats against better teams.
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