Grandview junior Rogie Fajardo grew up in the shadow of a older brother, Jaime, an undersized, overachieving center who helped lead the Greyhounds to the 2002 Class 2A state basketball championship. He has played in the shadows of older teammates, like 2007 grad A.J. Valencia and this year’s senior leader, C.J. Lopez.

But Rogie Fajardo is coming into his own.

“I know what I’m capable of,” Fajardo said Monday afternoon at the SunDome, following the unranked Greyhounds’ 71-54 drubbing of seventh-ranked Chelan in the Tourneytown.com Shootout. “It’s kind of just a case of getting out of my shell a little bit.

Consider that shell cracked wide open.

After coming of age in the 2007 summer season, when he occasionally turned in big scoring nights while always being one of the hardest-working players on the floor, Fajardo was the game-changing player against the Goats.

He scored 30 points, drained a Shootout-record six 3-pointers and dished out five assists, all while having to guard Goats sophomore standout Joe Harris. Although Harris managed 20 points, he had only six points in the first half while Grandview was building a 28-22 lead.

“All I did was kind of contain him,” Fajardo said of Harris. “I knew he likes to fake and try to get around you. My coaches were telling me to try to deny him the ball. Their whole offense kind of works around him.”

But even with Harris getting untracked in the second half, every time the Goats (11-3) threatened, Fajardo was there to answer — especially during a dramatic one-minute stretch late in the third quarter. Zane Sandum’s layup pulled Chelan to within 35-33, and Fajardo swished a 3-pointer to bump the lead back to five. Harris came back with a 3-pointer, only to see Fajardo answer with one of his own. Harris scored on a driving layup, was fouled and sank the free throw to cut the lead down to 41-39, but again, there was Fajardo draining another 3-pointer.

“He’s a kid who deserves to have games like this,” said Greyhounds coach Scott Parrish, whose team improved to 7-5. “This summer he was there every day, just working his tail off. He hasn’t had this kind of game this season, but we knew he had it in him. It was nice to see him get it.”

One of the reasons he got it was that Lopez, one of the CWAC’s leading scorers at nearly 18 points a game, was willing to draw the defense to himself and be the second option, not the first. Although he finished with 17 points of his own, he looked to get the ball to Fajardo and to Nick Sears inside, and that selflessness didn’t go unnoticed.

“C.J. was real patient,” Parrish said. “He gets a lot of attention from the defense, and I was really proud of how he played.”

And, naturally, of Fajardo, who was proud of the whole team.

“This team is really starting to get some chemistry,” he said. “At the first of the year, we started kind of slow.

“But it’s building up.”