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# Local player scores scholarship By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/local-player-scores-scholarship-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2004-05-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:16:22.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

One local athlete will be taking his playing to another level. The College of the Sequoias announced this week that two more of its men’s basketball team members have accepted scholarships to NCAA institutions.

Santa Monican Jon Folonis will play at Cal State Los Angeles, while teammate Robert Powell will play at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla.

Folonis, a 6’8” forward, averaged nine points and five rebounds in the Giants’ balanced attack and was instrumental in the team’s state playoff run. He scored 14 points in the team’s 88-65 victory over San Francisco City College and 15 in an overtime victory versus Yuba College three days later, which catapulted the team to the state Final Four.

Folonis will join a Golden Eagles’ team that is coming off a 9-18 season but competed in the NCAA Division II national tournament as recently as the 1999-2000 season.

A 5’10” guard from Palo Alto, Powell was named first team all-CVC and led COS in scoring at 15.5 points per contest. The sophomore helped propel the Giants to a 13-0 non-conference record and an overall mark of 28-3 and was named tournament MVP at the Bakersfield Classic, the COS Holiday Inn Invitational, and the DVC Classic as well as to the all-tournament team at the Modesto Invitational.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 3, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050304.pdf?ref=smdp.com)