EL SEGUNDO- The Los Angeles D-Fenders fell to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in a scoring slug fest 140-125 Saturday night. Los Angeles got off to a hot start behind Ivica Zubac’s nine first quarter points on a perfect 3-3 from the field, including a three-point bucket for the D-Fenders first points of the game. Together, the D-Fenders shot 63.6 percent in the opening quarter. However, the hot shooting start was unsustainable as they finished the game shooting 45.1 percent.
But offense wasn’t the problem for Los Angeles Saturday night, with three players scoring over 20 points and the team scoring 125 total.