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Liberty St. Joseph

Patriots

Knights

The St. Joseph (Santa Maria, CA) varsity basketball team won Tuesday's home playoff game against Liberty (Bakersfield, CA) by a score of 74-53.

This game is a part of the "2024 CIF Central Section Boys Basketball Championships - Division I" tournament.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Liberty	15	15	8	15	53
St. Joseph	25	11	16	22	74

Final score provided by T. Mott.

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Game Stats

St. Joseph (23-24)

Liberty

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	53	20	57	35	39
0	Mehki Delouth (Sr)	2	0	1	0	0
2	Aiden Morillo (Sr)	11	5	9	56	61
3	Acen Zuniga (So)	10	3	7	43	43
5	Deshawn Usochu (Sr)	19	8	20	40	45
11	Cole O’Brien (Sr)	3	1	6	17	17
20	Derek Jimenez (So)	1	0	2	0	0
23	Kadon Marion (Sr)	2	1	1	100	100
52	Damari Davis (Sr)	5	2	11	18	23

St. Joseph

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	74	30	62	48	51
1	Julius Price (So)	27	12	20	60	63
2	Malcolm Price (Fr)	4	1	1	100	100
3	Gunner Morinini (So)	12	4	7	57	64
4	Abdoul Bare (So)	4	2	5	40	40
10	Diesel Lowe (Jr)	8	4	6	67	67
24	T. Yessoufou (Jr)	19	7	23	30	33

Liberty

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	53	4	12	33	9	15	60	16	45	36
0	Mehki Delouth (Sr)	2				2	2	100	0	1	0
2	Aiden Morillo (Sr)	11	1	5	20				4	4	100
3	Acen Zuniga (So)	10				4	7	57	3	7	43
5	Deshawn Usochu (Sr)	19	2	3	67	1	2	50	6	17	35
11	Cole O’Brien (Sr)	3	0	1	0	1	2	50	1	5	20
20	Derek Jimenez (So)	1	0	1	0	1	2	50	0	1	0
23	Kadon Marion (Sr)	2							1	1	100
52	Damari Davis (Sr)	5	1	2	50				1	9	11

St. Joseph

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	74	3	19	16	11	13	85	27	43	63
1	Julius Price (So)	27	1	3	33	2	3	67	11	17	65
2	Malcolm Price (Fr)	4	0	0	0	2	2	100	1	1	100
3	Gunner Morinini (So)	12	1	4	25	3	4	75	3	3	100
4	Abdoul Bare (So)	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	40
10	Diesel Lowe (Jr)	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	4	100
24	T. Yessoufou (Jr)	19	1	10	10	4	4	100	6	13	46

Liberty

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF
	Team Totals	53	13	19	32	6	7	2	10	14
0	Mehki Delouth (Sr)	2	1	1	2		1		2	1
2	Aiden Morillo (Sr)	11	1	1	2	3
3	Acen Zuniga (So)	10	2	3	5				3	2
5	Deshawn Usochu (Sr)	19	4	8	12	2	5	2	2	4
11	Cole O’Brien (Sr)	3	2	3	5		1		1	1
20	Derek Jimenez (So)	1		1	1	1				1
23	Kadon Marion (Sr)	2
52	Damari Davis (Sr)	5	3	2	5				2	5

St. Joseph

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF
	Team Totals	74	10	30	40	14	4	9	11	15
1	Julius Price (So)	27	0	8	8	6	2	0	0	2
2	Malcolm Price (Fr)	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3
3	Gunner Morinini (So)	12	1	4	5	2	0	0	2	2
4	Abdoul Bare (So)	4	5	6	11	0	1	5	2	4
10	Diesel Lowe (Jr)	8	4	0	4	2	0	0	1	2
24	T. Yessoufou (Jr)	19	0	11	11	3	1	3	3	2
35	Godson Eyita (Fr)	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0

Liberty

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF	Blk:PF
	Team Totals	0.60	0.70	0.50	0.14
0	Mehki Delouth (Sr)		0.50	1.00
5	Deshawn Usochu (Sr)	1.00	2.50	1.25	0.50
11	Cole O’Brien (Sr)		1.00	1.00

St. Joseph

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF	Blk:PF	Chr	Defl
	Team Totals	1.27	0.36	0.27	0.60	1	3
1	Julius Price (So)	6.00	2.00	1.00	0.00	0	0
2	Malcolm Price (Fr)	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0
3	Gunner Morinini (So)	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1	0
4	Abdoul Bare (So)	0.00	0.50	0.25	1.25	0	0
10	Diesel Lowe (Jr)	2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1
24	T. Yessoufou (Jr)	1.00	0.33	0.50	1.50	0	2
35	Godson Eyita (Fr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00	0	0

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Game Story

California High School Basketball - St. Joseph trounces Liberty

February 13, 2024: Santa Maria, CA 93455

The St. Joseph Knights (Santa Maria, CA) basketball crushed the visiting Liberty Patriots (Bakersfield, CA), 74-53 in Tuesday's non-league test.

The Knights (28-2) will now prepare for their test against Centennial (Bakersfield, CA). The Golden Hawks go into the non-league test with a 24-6 record. In their last test, Centennial walloped Sanger (Sanger, CA), 53-44, in a non-league test.

The Patriots now own a 15-14 record.

Players of the Game

Liberty (23-24)

Congratulations to #5 Deshawn Usochu for being selected the Liberty Basketball Player of the Game.

St. Joseph (23-24)

St. Joseph has not selected any Players of the Game.

Rankings & Records

Liberty (23-24)

CA	Section
355	21

Overall	League	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	League %	PF	PA
15-14	3-5	3-5	6-3	6-6	.517	.375	2,044	1,782

St. Joseph (23-24)

National	CA	Section
44	13	2

Overall	League	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	League %	PF	PA
31-4	8-0	12-0	8-1	11-3	.886	1.000	2,762	1,865

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	Final
Liberty	17.4	15.6	18.2	16.1	77.0	70.5
St. Joseph	20.8	19.6	20.5	18.1	-	78.9

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Team Stat Comparison

Liberty		St. Joseph
70.2	Points Per Game	78.9
34.4	Rebounds Per Game	35.5
14.5	Assists Per Game	16.6
11.0	Steals Per Game	8.2
1.9	Blocks Per Game	3.7

Team Leaders

Liberty		St. Joseph	National Avg.
#5 Deshawn Usochu17.9	Points Per Game	#24 Tounde Yessoufou32.3	4.9
#5 Deshawn Usochu10.1	Rebounds Per Game	#24 Tounde Yessoufou10.2	2.6
#5 Deshawn Usochu4.8	Assists Per Game	#1 Julius Price7.0	1.0
#5 Deshawn Usochu3.2	Steals Per Game	#24 Tounde Yessoufou2.6	0.8
#5 Deshawn Usochu1.0	Blocks Per Game	#4 Abdoul Bare1.5	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Liberty	0-4		St. Joseph	3-0

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
11/30/23	Liberty	Arroyo Grande	(L) 53-48	1/23/24	Arroyo Grande	St. Joseph	(W) 85-42
				2/9/24	St. Joseph	Arroyo Grande	(W) 81-37
12/16/23	Centennial	Liberty	(L) 78-65	2/15/24	Centennial	St. Joseph	(W) 71-59
1/17/24	Liberty	Centennial	(L) 81-67
2/2/24	Centennial	Liberty	(L) 67-59

Record Breakdown

Liberty (23-24)		St. Joseph (23-24)
15-14	Overall	31-4
3-5	League	8-0
4-1	Non-League	9-1
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
0-4	Common Opponent	3-0
3-5	Home	12-0
6-3	Away	8-1
6-6	Neutral	11-3
0-1	Playoff	4-2
15-14	In-State	22-3
0-0	Out-of-State	9-1