North Lake Wins 20th Game, Advances to District Semifinals

IRVING, Texas – Dallas College North Lake's sixth-ranked men's basketball team had just enough to get past Dallas Mountain View 84-76 in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III South Central District quarterfinals Wednesday.

The win sends North Lake (20-10) on to Friday's 7 p.m. semifinals to meet No. 3 Dallas College Eastfield (20-8) at Dallas College Richland.

Romiel Carter scored 19 points, including 11 in the second half, becoming one of five Blazers to reach double figures. He was 5 for 5 from the free throw line in the second half. Zach Thompson scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half.

Zaedyn Owens finished with 14 points, while going 7 for 10 from the free throw line. Santana Spivey had 11 points, and Jordan Edwards 10.

Mountain View's Kaden Richardson scored a game-high 22 points. He had 15 in the first half. Parker Overstreet finished with 13 points, and Anthony Cook scored all of his 11 in the second half.

The Lions (6-24) built a 17-10 lead with 11:08 to play in the first half. The Blazers used a 9-2 run to tie it, and Owens' three-pointer put North Lake in front 26-23. Carter came up with a steal, hung in the air and converted to extend the Blazers' lead to eight with 3:36 left in the half.

North Lake led 41-31 at the break.

The Blazers were 5 of 10 at the free throw line in the opening half. The Lions went 8 for 12. 

Carter scored less than three minutes into the second half to give North Lake an 11-point lead. Chase Thomas had a steal and lay-in with 15:34 to go to as Mountain View closed within 52-44. With just under 11 minutes remaining, Parker Overstreet canned a 3 to cut the deficit to five. Blake Cook-Edgar scored on a lob with just under 7:00 on the clock as the Lions drew within 68-64. Demondray Spencer's bucket made it a two-point game.

North Lake went on a 9-3 run before Cook hit a corner 3 to bring Mountain View within 77-72. But Carter had a steal at midcourt, and slid a pass to Thompson, who finished in transition to put the Blazers up eight to put it away.

The Lions outscored the Blazers 45-43 in the second half. North Lake went 18 of 28 from the stripe. Mountain View was 14 of 19.

It is North Lake's fourth 20-win season in the last five years.