The Rosamond Roadrunners fell behind early and never recovered falling to the Charter Oak Chargers of the Miramonte League in a CIF Southern Section basketball playoff game played at Rosamond High School on Wednesday night.

Charter Oak took control from the opening whistle on the strength of their outside shooting, draining six three pointers in the first quarter and adding five more in the second while outscoring the Runners by 17 and then 12 in the first two sessions to take a commanding 51-22 half time lead.

The Chargers kept the pressure on in the third outscoring the Roadrunners 18-4 to go up by 43 points putting the contest out of reach.

Top scorer of the game was Charter Oaks’ Kyle Heidenrich with 19 points including five first half three pointers that put the Roadrunners on their heels early. Anthony Franco picked up 12 including 3 threes in the first half, followed by Kenny Saldana with 11 points and 3 first half three pointers of his own.

Leading the way for Rosamond in the losing effort was Christian Flores with 10 points followed by Gary Lux with 9.