Bishop Diego’s boys basketball team secured at least a share of the Frontier League title on Wednesday night, surviving a late surge from Santa Paula to take the decision 69-65.
Santa Paula scored 29 points in the fourth quarter and pulled to within two points at one point after trailing by as many as 19. Taylor Casas tallied 13 points alone for Santa Paula in the fourth quarter.
“We hung on for dear life,” said Bishop head coach Dean Prophet, whose Cardinals are 7-1 in league with two games to play. “I know Santa Paula, they always play hard. They weren’t going to give it to us.”
Nolan Tisdale was Bishop’s secret weapon. Tisdale came off the bench to score a season-high 28 points. The junior connected on six 3-pointers, including three in the final quarter.
Ben Kwock contributed six assists and four steals for the Cardinals and Reece Moulton added a team-high nine rebounds to the mix.
“Everyone gave us good minutes,” Prophet said.
The Cardinals, 16-7 overall and ranked No. 4 in CIF Div. VI-AA, travel to Carpinteria next for a Friday night game.
Bishop Diego is weak they should of lost that game if you have a 20 point lead going into the fourth quarter and you let them come with 1 point that just means you have a terrible coach and that your not strong when it comes to finishing a game. Basically the cardinals are weak defensively and have no sense of ball pressure and always turnover the ball. They are lucky that they are in such a bad league and they are in bad division because if they weren’t they wouldn’t win one game