Boys Basketball: Crespi beats Chaminade, 53-43. Dierickx makes debut

Gilles Dierickx, a 6'10 transfer from Belgium finally made his varsity debut for the Chaminade of West Hills boys basketball team and it probably won't be very long before he cracks the starting lineup.

Dierickx came off the bench to score 13 points, grab three rebounds and register two blocks and a steal but the Eagles were beaten 53-43 in a Mission League game at Crespi of Encino.

"More or less we are going to need to get on his page," Chaminade coach Todd Wolfson. "It will take us some time to get used to playing with the big guy. We need to get used to looking for him in the paint."

The Eagles (8-13, 1-7), who beat Crespi (13-8, 5-3) earlier this month for their lone league win got off to a horrendous start trailing 18-0 and not scoring a point until the 4:40 mark of the second quarter.

"We practiced against that zone defense for eight hours," Wolfson said. "We broke it down, watched film, I don't know, we just couldn't make shots."

Matt Mounier, Blake Stanton, Kenny Stenhouse and Ben Loth lead Crespi with 14,10, eight and eight points respectively.

Mounier made two 3-pointers in the first quarter and all six of his free throws in the fourth quarter helping Crespi fend off a Chaminade rally.

"We played real good, we knew what we had to do after losing to them the first time," Mounier said.

No other player beside Dierickx scored in double figures but Jamal McClerkin and Zach Miller each contributed eight points.