Hancock rides big 1st half to 91-33 win over depleted Vaqueros

Hancock dominated the first half on Wednesday night with a 55-8 onslaught that led to a 91-33 win in a WSC North game at the Sports Pavilion.

The Bulldogs (16-5, 3-2) have won three straight and six of the last eight. They shot a sizzling 56.8% in the first half (21-37) while the Vaqueros (1-17, 0-4) made just 2-of-29 from the field and committed 10 turnovers.

Jamario Bibb came off the bench to score 17 points in 17 minutes for Hancock. He hit 5-10 from the field and 4-5 from 3-point country. Nick Chapman added 14 points while Brcye Craver and Xavier Cooper handed out eight assists each.

The Bulldogs started hot, grabbing a 13-0 lead before SBCC scored its first points on a follow shot by Peterson Wotkyns with 11:07 to play. AHC took a 28-4 lead on a dunk by Craver, then Adrian Juilland-Johnson hit a triple for the Vaqueros. Hancock rattled off 21 in a row to boost the lead to 42 points, 49-7, with 3:38 left.

The Vaqueros had just seven healthy players.

"We lost three guys at the semester because of academics," explained SBCC coach Morris Hodges. "And we've had a lot of injuries. Keegan McDougal went for an MRI of his knee today and may be out for the year. Another guy had the flu and Nicholas Muerzl injured his ankle in the last game and didn't play tonight.

"Hancock is a good team and their depth got us. We just couldn't score at all in the first half. In the first nine minutes, they only had 13 points. We needed to make some buckets and our inability to score was kind of glaring."

Juilland-Johnson scored seven for the Vaqueros and Joseph Holden had six but both players made just 2-14 from the field. Carlos Arevalo had a season-high nine rebounds and Calvin Weinstock grabbed six. Hancock dominated on the backboards as well with a 55-25 rebounding advantage.

The Vaqueros shot 39.3% in the second half and only lost by 11, 36-25.

Hancock drained 11-23 from long distance while the Vaqueros were 2-13.

"Injuries and academic problems have created a lot of adversity," said Hodges. "We were playing way too fast in the first half. We didn't do what we needed to do to control the tempo. We'd break the press, then we'd get sped up which leads to bad decisions."

The Vaqueros will travel to Woodland Hills to take on L.A. Pierce on Saturday at 3 p.m.