Boys' basketball: Alemany 70, Oaks Christian 67 at the buzzer

Jordan Fuller picked the right time to hit a key shot for the Alemany boys' basketball team in the marquee game of the War on the Floor showcase at Pierce College late Saturday night.

It was close to 10:30 p.m. when Fuller dashed from the half-court line and swung through to the deep right corner where he received a wonderful pass from Jerico Richardson and made a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer for a wild 70-67 nonleague victory against Oaks Christian.

Fuller finished with 14 points, Richardson led the Warriors (13-5) with 19, Marqueze Coleman had 12 and Max Guercy had 11.

Alemany led 67-65 until Chass Bryan calmly buried an 18-footer with 3.2 seconds remaining to knot the game at 67-67 before Fuller's heroics.

Both teams had multiple games the past week but were ready for the nonleague showdown, which was a rematch of Oaks Christian's 68-59 victory in a fifth-place semifinal at the Oaks Christian tournament on Dec. 29.

Quite a rivalry is brewing between the two private schools as Alemany pulled off an upset of the top-seeded Lions (12-6) in the quarterfinals of last year's Div. IV-A playoffs. Alemany went on to the championship game before losing to Mission League rival Crespi.

Bryan led Oaks Christian with 20 points while Jason Ghilarducci and Taylor Hange each had 12 and Mike Roletti had 11.

Dillon van der Wal had six points and 11 rebounds, one night after pulling down 17 rebounds in a blowout win against Santa Clara.

van der Wal might have been more effective but was hampered by foul trouble. The Warriors clearly had no answer when he was on the floor.

Alemany also did a good job running the floor in transition with the absence of Oaks Christian's Blair Holliday (official football visit to Duke) scoring early in the first half on several easy layups.

Oaks Christian battled back to trail by only three points at halftime and had a 52-48 lead entering the fourth quarter.