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Posted: Nov 25, 2012

Owls Rout Porterville

Freshman Darius Middleton had six points, four rebounds, four steals, eights assists, and no turnovers in Citrus' rout of Porterville. Photo By: Jerrika Ramirez
Freshman Darius Middleton had six points, four rebounds, four steals, eights assists, and no turnovers in Citrus' rout of Porterville. Photo By: Jerrika Ramirez
Box Score
Game Leaders
Porterville
Pts: Elijah Henningham - 11
Reb: Elijah Henningham - 6
Ast: 2 Players (#2, #4) - 3
Citrus
Pts: Kerry Carter - 28
Reb: Brent Watkins - 9
Ast: Darius Middleton - 8
Team Stats
Full stats

Glendora, CA -- After blowing a five point lead with 35 seconds to go on Friday, the Citrus College Men's Basketball team needed to respond in a big way on Saturday afternoon in their consolation round contest against Porterville. The Owls did just that routing the Pirates 94-59, and advancing to the Consolation Championship Game on Sunday.  

Citrus opened up the game, scoring nine of the first eleven points, going up 9-2 after a trey from sophomore Kerry Carter. The Pirates would rally knotting the game up at 13 all with just over 12 minutes to go, but the Owls quickly pushed their lead to double digits on another three ball from Carter that made it 32-20 with just under seven minutes to go in the first half.

Porterville would claw back to within eight points and then nine points twice in the final five minutes of the half, but each team Citrus pushed their lead back to double digits. The second time, the Owls closed up the half with a little 7-0 run capped off by a layup from freshman Darius Middleton that put the Owls up 46-30 at the break.
In the second half it was all Citrus. Porterville got no closer than the 16 they trailed by at the half. The Owls were able to get everyone involved in the second half and rested their starters for big minutes in the final half of the contest.
In the win, Citrus was led by Carter who scored a game high 28 points. Freshman Terrell Todd added seventeen from the bench, and sophomore Brent Watkins scored 14 points on 7 of 8 shooting from the floor and also grabbed a game high 8 boards.
With the win, Citrus improves to 3-3 on the year. The Owls will take on San Diego City College in the Consolation Championship Game tomorrow at 2:00 PM.