What a Monday night the Scott brothers, Nolan and Maxwell remembered. In a basketball game that arguably matched the two best public school teams in Orange County, Corona del Mar and Los Alamitos went back and forth with neither wanting to budge.
Corona del Mar (17-1) got the ball under Los Alamitos’ basket with 11.2 seconds left and one point down. Coach Jason Simco, who had never beaten Los Alamitos in five seasons, set up a final play designed to get the ball to the least likely person, Nolan Scott, the football team’s sophomore quarterback. Brother Maxwell set him a screen, Luke Mirhashemi found Nolan wide open under the basket and passed him the ball for an easy layup with 4.3 seconds left to seal a 78-77 Sunset League victory at the newly opened Los Alamitos gym.
Maxwell Scott finished with 35 points. The brothers have played flag football together since they were sophomores. Maxwell played football as a freshman and then focused on basketball, but is ready to return to football as a senior.
“He’s fun to play with,” Maxwell said.
What a game it was.
“Everybody was shooting,” Maxwell said.
Corona del Mar’s successful final shot took away a great performance from sophomore Isaiah Williamson of Los Alamitos, who finished with 26 points.
“I thought he was amazing,” Simco said of Williamson. “He will become something else.”
Los Alamitos fell to 8-7 and 0-1 in the league.
Oliver Nakra had 19 points for Corona del Mar.
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