Hoopa Boys Lose to Stuart Hall

We’ve joined forces with Ray Hamill of HumboldtSports.com to bring you local sports. We’ll be sharing a teaser and a link to his stories here for easy access. Click through to his site for the latest in local action, but here’s a snippet about Hoopa’s disappointing loss last night:

The Hoopa Valley boys were unable to keep up with the No. 1 ranked Division-V team in the state on Wednesday, falling 82-58 to Stuart Hall in an NCS playoff game at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco.

Foul calls didn’t help matters for the Warriors, who saw their two leading scorers — George Navarro and Wade Nixon — foul out early in the second half.

“I didn’t think he had four fouls,” Hoopa head coach Tyler Mitchell said of Navarro, who fouled out on the opening play of the third quarter, on a foul that the coach said should have been called on his teammate Sonny Jarnaghan.

For the game, Stuart Hall had 39 free-throw attempts, making good on just 18 of them, while Hoopa had just 18 attempts, making good on 15.

It was the second straight playoff game in the Bay Area where the foul count was heavily in the Warriors’ opponents’ favor.

“It’s pretty frustrating,” Mitchell said.

The coach, however, didn’t blame the loss entirely on the foul calls.

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