Saratoga News Photograph by Skye Dunlap Saratoga's Geoff Lamotte handles the basketball in last week's win over Homestead. Lamotte led the Falcons with 20 points in the victory. Falcons split in league games Lamotte, Weger team up for 65 points By Dick Sparrer Geoff Lamotte and Micah Weger are deadly from three-point range. So deadly, in fact, that two Saratoga basketball players combined for nine of the long-range shots on their way to a combined 65 points in two last week. But as deadly as the two Falcons may have been, Saratoga could manage just a split in a pair of games last week in the El Camino Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League. The Falcons opened the week with a lopsided 56-39 win over Homestead, but they finished the week by dropping a 46-45 heartbreaker to Cupertino. The split left the Falcons 2-2 in division play and 11-7 for the season. Saratoga now prepares to visit Monta Vista for a 7 p.m. game on Jan. 21. The Matadors are winless in three league games. The Falcons outscored Homestead in every period but the fourth on their way to the easy win to open the week, and Lamotte and Weger were the Falcons with the hot hands. Lamotte fired in four threes on his way to a team-high 20 points, and Weger supported with 18 points, including three threes, to lead the Falcons to the comfortable win. Bill Wallace supported with six points; Matt Garrapolo and Robert Kim had four apiece. Lamotte came back with 15 points, and Weger hit 12, but the Falcons came up a point short against Cupertino. Both of the Falcons hit a three in the game. Mike Crosby chipped in with six points in the game, Wallace and Kim had four each, and Garrapolo and Dan Goñi added two apiece. In other boys basketball action, Prospect lost twice in the Santa Teresa Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League last week, falling 65-47 to Mt. Pleasant and 46-38 to Del Mar. Barry Sharpe pitched in 16 points, including a pair of threes, to lead all Prospect scorers in the loss to the unbeaten Cardinals. Thomas Turner joined him in double digits with 12 points. Jerome Ort supported with five points, Bryan Spratling and Devon Jackson hit three apiece, and Mike Senteio, Gil Vasquez, Chris Hudson and Stephen Juran had two each. The Panthers slipped to 1-2 in the division and to 10-6 for the year in the loss to the Dons later in the week. Sharpe led Prospect with 12 points and Senteio hit three three-pointers on his way to 11 points. Turner, Ort and Vasquez tossed in seven points each, and Spratling rounded out the scoring with two. The Panthers will try to get back on the winning track this week when they visit Westmont on Jan. 19, 7 p.m., and Leland on Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m. Westmont enters Tuesday's game with the Panthers winless in the Santa Teresa Division. The Warriors lost 57-48 to Leland and 69-46 to Santa Teresa last week to slip to 0-3 in league play and to 5-11 for the year. Daniel Sherburne bombed 22 points, but it wasn't enough to help the Warriors get past the Chargers. Erik Cisler supported with 11 points for Westmont, and Navdeep Hundel added seven points. Each player hit a three-pointer. Vincent Chung added three points, Chris Funke and Dustin Wong two apiece and Byung Park one. Sherburne and Kyle Collins pitched in 11 points apiece to lead Westmont in the loss to the Saints. Collins buried a couple of threes for the Warriors. Cisler added nine points, Feras Elrayas hit seven, Hundel five, Wong two and Robert Li one. Elrayas canned a three-pointer. In girls basketball, Sheryl Mahaffey went wild with 32 points and five three-pointers in Westmont's 56-44 win over Piedmont Hills. Alyssa Parsons supported with nine points, and Kim Castillo, Victoria Sifuentez and Stacey Simmons added four points each. But Mahaffey was held to eight points a couple of days later when the Warriors lost 87-35 to unbeaten Mitty. The loss left the Warriors 2-1 in the Mt. Hamilton Division of the BVAL and 10-6 for the year. Parsons led Westmont with 14 points. [ Back to Contents Page | Saratoga News Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Saratoga News, January 20, 1999. ©1999 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.