MESA, Ariz. — Second-day action at the Nike Tournament of Champions on Friday didn't produce upsets like Thursday, but quarterfinal results set up a dynamite set of semifinal matchups Saturday.
Mitty and Bishop McNamara meet at 6 p.m. MST while Long Island Lutheran and Bullis battle at 7:30 p.m. The championship is slated for 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22.
Ze'ni Patterson of No. 1 Archbishop Mitty scored 17 of her game-high 22 points in the first half of Friday's 76-44 win over No. 7 Democracy Prep at the Nike Tournament of Champions. (PHOTO: Darin Sicurello)
Archbishop Mitty has won the tournament each of the past two years.
Mitty led 21-11 after the first quarter and extended it to 41-27 at half as
Ze'ni Patterson scored 17 of her 22 points before intermission.
The path to the next round for Bullis wasn't without some obstacles as
Millennium (Goodyear, Ariz.) staged a fourth-quarter rally in search of a second upset in as many days.
Bullis led 18-11 after one and 32-16 at the break before taking a 47-24 edge into the final quarter. But Millennium, which beat No. 19
Monsignor Scanlan (Bronx, N.Y.) 83-78 in triple-overtime Thursday, didn't roll over. Junior
Dashia Richardson went on a personal 10-0 run to get the Tigers to within 16 at 52-36. But the Bulldogs never let their lead dwindle to single digits.
Long Island Lutheran ran out to a 16-7 lead after one period over
Bartlett (Tenn.) and then lengthened that edge in each quarter toward a 71-30 running-clock victory.
Belmont commit
Samiya Jones led the Panthers with 16 points, including a seven-point personal run over the tail end of the second quarter and the start of the new half.
The final winner's bracket game saw a hot-shooting
San Ramon Valley (Danville, Calif.) team that hit 13 3-pointers Thursday run into the smothering baseline-to-baseline defense of Bishop McNamara, which held on for a 51-40 win.
Bishop McNamara held a 25-19 lead at the break and stretched that to 38-25 after three.
Qandace Samuels had a game-high 20 points, including a pair of triples. The Wolves clawed back in the early part of the third period, tying the game at 25 on an
Ella Gunderson bucket off an assist from San Jose State commit
Alyssa Rudd.
But Bishop McNamara answered with a 13-point run to close the period as McCoy scored seven in that stretch. San Ramon Valley would cut the lead to nine deep in the fourth quarter on a pair of 3-pointers by sophomore
Kaitlyn Mills.
Friday's results and high scorers
Saturday's games
Vincent Cannizzaro DIvision
Millennium vs. Bartlett, 9 a.m., Court 2
Democracy Prep vs. San Ramon Valley, 10:30 a.m., Court 2
Homewood-Flossmoor vs. Newcastle, noon, Court 2
Lone Peak vs. Mater Dei, 1:30 p.m., Court 2
Mt. Zion Prep Academy vs. St. Mary's, 6 p.m. Court 2
Scanlan vs. Fairmont Prep, 7:30 p.m. Court 2
Archbishop Mitty vs. Bishop McNamara, 6 p.m. Court 1
Long Island Lutheran vs. Bullis, 7:30 p.m., Court 1
