Season 48 Featured Game No. 8 Sacramento at Los Angeles

 R-DOGS CLINCH ANOTHER WEST CROWN

LOS ANGELES -- The Sacramento River Dogs, looking like the class of Season 48, took over early and breezed to a 79-53 road win over the Los Angeles Big One. The league's top defense held The Big One to 39.7 percent shooting. The win clinched a third consecutive West Division first-place finish and the fourth in five seasons and kept the team winning streak alive at five. 

Sacramento is now 7-1 while Los Angeles drops to 4-4 and is still in the playoff mix. 

PLAYER OF THE GAME

Sacramento's Hall of Fame center TREE FIDDY entered the game as the leader in the All-MBA center race and did himself no harm with the beating he put on rookie Juji Mufu of Los Angeles. The 10-year star was high scorer in the game with 24 points on 10 of 14 from the field (1 of 3 from deep) and 3 of 4 from the foul stripe. He hit a 3-pointer on the first time unit of the game, was fouled and completed the free throw as a hint as to what was to follow. The 6-8 Fiddy pulled down 4 boards led everyone with 3 blocked shots, had 1 steal and 1 assist. He is the current leader in the MVP race.

OTHER 20-PLUS GVP PERFORMERS

-- Steady Sacramento forward Doo-rag Dripp had an efficient 16-point, 5-rebound game that included 2 assists, 1 blocked shot and 1 steal.

-- Despite being guarded by the nettlesome defense of Great Gruncle Terry, Los Angeles point guard Dr. Marcus Brody still managed to tie for team-high in scoring with 12 points while hitting the boards hard for a game-high 7 rebounds, The pride of L.A. added 1 blocked shot and 1 assist.

POINTS PREVENTED BY QUARTERS

Sacramento....5...0...8...2 Total=15

Los Angeles...0...4...0...4 Total=8

TOPS IN POINTS PREVENTED

1. Great Gruncle Terry, Sacramento 5

4 others tied with 4

TURNOVERS CAUSED BY QUARTER

Sacramento 1...1...3...1 Total=6

Los Angeles 0...1...0...0 Total=1

LEADERS IN CAUSING TURNOVERS

1. Potus Obama, Sacramento 2

1. James Payne, Sacramento 2

WEST DIVISION STANDINGS

1st -- Sacramento 7-1 (clinched playoffs and division title) (5-game winning streak)

2nd -- Seattle 4-4 (division wins tie-breaker) (3-game losing streak)

3rd -- San Jose 4-4 (up from 4th)

4th -- Los Angeles 4-4 (down from 3rd)

Last -- Gillette 2-6 (3-game losing streak)

UPCOMING BRACKET (NO. 9)

-- Charleston (3-5) at Oklahoma City (5-3) Lariats chasing Milwaukee, but Greyhounds swept them.

-- Philadelphia (3-5) at Milwaukee (6-2) A win here clinches division title for Greyhounds.

-- Seattle at Gillette...Stampede needs this since they play Sacramento in final game.

-- San Jose at Los Angeles...first of two in a row; someone will likely need to sweep to make playoffs.

-- FEATURED GAME: Cross-over is Chip Battoe Day as Dallas hosts Sacramento.