Closing the book (kinda)
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- March
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The basketball season never really ends. Sure, the state and Federation tournament eventually concludes. But between summer leagues and AAU, there is no offseason.
The high school portion wrapped up this afternoon in Glens Falls with Rice knocking off Newburgh Free Academy, 70-68, in overtime in the Class AA championship. Check out the story in the Post Star here.
As you might have heard already, Jamesville-DeWitt was unseated as the Class A Federation champs, losing 68-51 to Long Island Lutheran last night. Shocking to think that Jamesville could be beaten this badly after grinding out wins over Peekskill and Iona Prep. Tobias Harris, who was injured during the Slam Dunk, had 27 points and 15 rebounds in the win.
Obviously, I was in Glens Falls on Friday night for the end of Iona Prep’s magical run. Josh Thomson had the story about the Gaels running out of gas down the stretch. Rick Carpiniello echoed most of your sentiments on how the Federation tournament lacks the juice of the state tournament.
I was at the Exceptional Senior All-Star game yesterday afternoon. Matt Ng had the story. Sherrod Wright of Mount Vernon put on a show for the blue team, which scored the final two baskets to win. Wright had 34 points and seven rebounds.
He actually dueled with his own teammate, Alex Judge of Croton-Harmon, as the show-stopper. Judge was hitting from all over the floor and scored 22 points. When you get the best players in the area on the same floor, you expect Sherrod to shine. But Judge really impressed the crowd.
Floyd Leroy of Albertus Magnus won the dunk contest with a solid performance. He seemed to really enjoy himself doing it, too.
The biggest surprise of the day was how dominant Joe Magliano of Blind Brook was in the 3-point shootout. I was sitting with a few coaches whose jaws were on the floor at what rhythm he had, even though his feet never left the floor when he shot. It was like he was dropping in free throws. Magliano beat some impressive shooters, too.
Earlier in the day, Vaughn Allen of Mount Vernon scored all 25 of his points in the second half as his team dominated. Allen, a 6-5 forward, probably should have been in the premier game, which was only for All-Section selections.
The CYP continues with tomorrows semifinal games, which are at 7:15 and 8:30. I’ll be there tomorrow, and for Tuesday’s championship game. Should be a fun couple of days.
As I said, the season is over. But it never really ends.
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on rivals it says sherrod got an offer from pitt…i know they are not always right, any truth to this? I always thought he was under recruited but pitt is the real deal
TEAM FRENJI vs NY PANTHERS 7:15PM
METROHAWKS vs GAUCHOS 8:30PM
DOESNT GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT FOR PRIME TIME TALENT.
GET THERE EARLY.THESE TEAMS ARE LOADED!!!
Who does Frenji have this year?
Team Frenji roster: sherod wright, ralph watts, sean kilpatrick, jordan lessane, daquan brickhouse, mike buffalo, darrell ward, keith thomas, rashawn stores and more. they got a 7’0 fter and a 6’9 soph who is a beast.
just wondering if u were actually at this game because i played in the game and scored the game winning basket with 10 seconds left and then block john corocco from new rochelle and threw it to sharad wright to dunk at the buzzer thanks for the recognition tho
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