CITY BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES : Boys’ 3-A : Davis Leads Jordan to an Easy Win

Junior forward Stephon Davis scored a game-high 29 points, including 13 in the second quarter, to lead Jordan High School to a 56-41 win over Grant in the City boys’ 3-A championship game at the Sports Arena Friday night.

Davis added 14 points in the second half and put the finishing touches on Grant with two booming jams in the fourth quarter. The second dunk, with 3:11 remaining, gave Jordan a 47-31 lead.

It was Davis’ first dunk, however, that set the tone, he said.

“I knew once I got a dunk, we’ve got a City championship,” he said.

Davis’ outburst helped Jordan break open a tight game that Grant led, 23-22, at halftime.

“He hasn’t been stopped by any team yet,” Jordan Coach Roosevelt Wilson said.

The win capped an improbable season for Jordan (19-6), which finished the regular season in third place in the Pac-6 League.

While Davis was hot, leading Jordan’s 7-of-14 shooting in the third quarter, Grant (20-4) went ice cold.

The Lancers were outscored, 15-4, in the quarter and went scoreless for 9:43 of the second half.

“The same shots that we hit at the end of the second quarter didn’t fall in the third quarter,” Grant Coach Howard Levine said. “The ball just wasn’t going in the hoop. We lost patience in our offense.”

Grant guard Danny Enowitz, the East Valley League player of the year who came into the game averaging 17.7 points and 8.4 rebounds a game, scored only 8 points on 4 of 11 shooting and pulled down only 3 rebounds.

Both teams started slowly, shooting a combined 13% from the floor in the first quarter--Jordan made only 3 of 22 shots. Grant missed its first eight shots and didn’t score until 3:25 had elapsed.