FINAL SCORE —
Class AA state Federation final
At the Times Union Center, Albany:
Mount Vernon 84, Christ the King 78 (OT)
GAME RECAP —
Class AA state Federation final
Mount Vernon 84, Christ the King 78 (OT): At the Times Union Center, Jabarie Hinds scored 14 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter and overtime to earn MVP honors as Mount Vernon (23-5) won the fifth state Federation title in program history. The Knights now sit behind only Rice, which it No. 1 in tournament history with six titles.
The championship was the program’s first in five seasons and the fourth for coach Bob Cimmino (2000, 2004, 2006, 2011). Mount Vernon won its last 10 games and snapped the 12-game winning streak of Christ the King, which had been the defending Federation champion.
Hinds, the West Virginia-bound senior, scored nine of his points in the extra session, including a breakaway dunk and 5 out of 6 from the foul line. He also opened the scoring in overtime with a short leaner to spark a 6-0 Mount Vernon run.
Hinds had missed a tough runner in the final seconds of regulation. Christ the King’s Corey Edwards rebounded the miss but lost control as he turned up court. Jamell Walker then missed a layup at the buzzer that would’ve won the game. Isaiah Cousins scored off the miss but it was after the buzzer.
Christ the King junior star Omar Calhoun scored 33 points and had seven rebounds. He went 2 for 10 from 3-point land but made his first of the game with his team trailing by three points, 66-63, and with just 16.1 seconds remaining.
Mount Vernon was in position to win after trailing for much of the game. The Knights were down 20-11 after one quarter and 33-28 at halftime. They had trimmed the lead to 48-45 after three and took their first lead since 2-1 on a putback by Randy Stephens 47 seconds into overtime. The teams exchanged leads for much of the fourth quarter until a 3-pointer by Edwards gave Christ the King a 61-59 lead with 2:40 to play. Stephens tied the score with 1:20 to go, but T.J. Curry hit two free throws to regain the lead, 63-61, with 1:14 remaining.
With the clock drifting toward 1:00, Mount Vernon called a play for Cousins, who took a contested 3-pointer from the top of the key. He banked the shot in with 52.7 seconds left for a one-point lead. The Knights never trailed again.
Cousins finished with 12 points, five rebounds and three assists off the bench. The Mount Vernon bench outscored the Royals’ bench 22-5.
Senior point guard Khalid Samuels finished the game with 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting. He scored 18 of his points in the second half and overtime. His counterpart, the George Mason-bound Edwards, finished with 14 points and three assists on 4-of-11 shooting and committed six of his team’s 22 turnovers.
Mount Vernon sparked its comeback with a 1-2-2 zone press that helped force 12 turnovers in the second half and overtime and helped make up for a 42-34 rebounding disadvantage. The Knights also shot 22 for 26 from the free throw line. Christ the King went 24 for 37 from the line.
48 Comments
Kings of new york,the mount Vernon knights,they won their last 10 games in a row. Kalid and Jabarie I take my hat off great job. History at its finest.
2011 NYS Federation Champions, Mount Vernon High School! Congratulations players, coaches, administrators, staff, parents and students. All of Section 1 salutes you!
Great job guys, best in NY. Jabarie proved all the haters wrong by leading his team, but it was certainly still a team effort with the play of Samuels, Cousins & co. Scary team for next year with Doughty, Cousins, Stephens, Robinson, and Marshall. Maybe not good enough for States and Feds, but you never know. Pok should finally be able to win a title in Class A seeing that Byram is the only challenger. It was a great season, great coverage the whole way Josh.
amazing accomplishment – jabarie put on clinic after clinic when necessary.
2011
.........score against boys and girls at one point, 20-11… score against CTK at one point 20-11
Mt Vernon Federation Champs in the year 20 11…lmao
2011…..
Congratulations coaches and team…. now you belong to the ages. Is it too late for 60 minutes to change their HS coach being honored tonight?
Ok, I guess all the guys on this blog who think Jabarie is over rated will not be heard from again this year..
Mike Quick. start covering field hockey
Josh, great job this year and thanks
Haywood… top of the world ma
Priceless 60 minutes on Coach Hurley right now. Coach Cimmino modeled the best. The results for MV are plainly apparent.
spacey congrats! You beat me to it in terms of people thinking if Jabarie is still over rated. What a great season for this team. Space, Haywood, MV71, etc. time to shine. Best team around. The train keeps rolling. Enjoy this one as it was somewhat unexpected.
Till next season. It was a joy blogging with you all. Josh, you did a great job. And finally, Lets hope Iona Prep steps it up. I missed reading Iona Power’s stuff all year.
On to baseball!
Rent the tuxedoes! There gonna be another huge photo hangin’ in the hallowed gym on California Road. Two recent arrivals in heaven are dancin’ together tonight!
Coaches and Team: you can’t imagine how proud we are of all of you. God Bless You All and thank you! It’s gonna be a happy day in Mount Vernon tomorrow!
guys, it’s been great blogging with you all,
For all the Section 1 fans wondering what the future holds for the storied M.V Knights basketball program ….............................to be continued
To all the happy fans of mount Vernon basketball it has been a fantastic ride,and to my fellow Bloggers, Spacecadet,mv71,mv65,hrs,Scott,Jmoose,Louis e ect and I know I for got a few and a special thanks to josh for busting your tail getting us information, thank-you
Did Yhanni Bartley play at all in the Federation games?
Kudos to Joshua for opening up this bloggers highway in support of their favorite team.
It did not got unnoticed that MV was unconscious at the free throw line. 22 of 26 is an unbelievable 85%! Now that’s what I call stepping up BIG for the BIG SHOW!!
Jabarie you earned your Mr. Basketball of NYS mantel as well as your MVPs up the Falls and in Albany. Best of luck with Coach ‘Huggs’.
Congrats to the delirious MV fans/bloggers..and I include my bud, jmoose from up in the ‘Burgh because I know he is happy for the maroon & gold and their moment in the sun. If this 2010-11 team overachieved, then it certainly takes the sting out of the 2008-09 underachieving team that fell so tragically to the Goldbacks and Will Bouton’s 55 footer.
spacecadet…perhaps we’ll have another barn fire at AB Davis to celebrate the Class of ‘65 50th reunion in 2015!
spacecadet: lol about Mike Quick
What an incredible accomplishment and congratulations to the Knights.
Cimmino and Pritchard will be in Chi-town by tomorrow to begin preparations for the McDonald’s All-American game. A well deserved honor for them to be coaching the East team.
Ugh, of course it’s Pritchett, sorry
Sooo…Maxpreps redid their rankings.MV moved up to 89th nationally (from 158th) and 2nd in the state (from 5th) but were leapfrogged by Long Island Lutheran (which had been 9th in the state and beat the old #1 and 2) who became 59th nationally.
Nice win for MV. Great performance from Jabarie. Good luck down at WV young man. I will be watching.
Great coaching job by Bob, didnt have as many horses as he has in years past and won the fed chip.
congrats
Obviously, the MaxPreps staff is as overworked and overwhelmed [and probably underpaid] as the Sunday morning shift at IHOP…lots of pancake batter splattered around…Making a mess of the rankings on a state and national level. Throughout the season I noticed that they couldn’t keep the scores up to date and accurate…probably relied on the good graces of the MaxPrep fans to supply the data…not goooo..d!
p.s. jmoose..what are you doing up so early?!
OK, I have to get my 2 cents in,I can’t lie I had my doubts in the middle of the year that this team would get to the federation let alone win it but this team really gelled the last 10-15 games and yes they had Jabarie but this was a total team effort. I cant say enough about Khalid he went from
highly erratic to an absolute rock for MV in the last 10 games. He easily could have been the MVP in the state tournament and had a huge 2nd half against CTK. Jamel and Isiah became huge contributors with their D and on the boards. This is probably the best coaching job by Cimmino in the the last 11 years that Ive been watching,to turn this team into a federation champ is truly an amazing feat. He should be the NYS coach of the year.
P.S.
I have no sympathy for Boys and Girls and their situation. when your a high school coach
it’s not just about X’s and O’s. It’s about seeing that these kids are held to a high standard
and by doing so you may lose a few like MV has
over the years but the ones you keep even the ones at the end of the bench that dont get in the games go on to graduate and attend college Believe me MV has lost a lot of talent
because of the high standards that are applied by the coaching staff but the ones that
have worked hard and gotten thru far outweigh the ones that were lost. I tip my hat to the MVcoaching staff and the job they did this year and all the previous years. It was a fun ride.
Oh by the way I think I.S. 8 starts Saturday LOL
I’m with MV fan71 about the B & G HS squad…ultimately it’s about responsibility and accountability…valuing long term education over fleeting moments of glory on the court…and reinforcing those precepts from the Biddy League through to graduation…and beyond.
Newburgh should pause to study the way Boys & Girls toed the mark and held its STUDENT/athletes accountable, albeit, it jeopardized their chances at winning a Federation title. Some of those young men on the Goldback team who held the state trophy aloft in ‘09 must now be struggling to hold their heads up knowing they left high school without a diploma in hand. Tough, tough life lessons to be learned here.
Congrats. Jabarie. The Mountaineer Nation is looking forward to having you in Motown.
mvfan71
well your 2 cents is worth at least a nickle because what you just said is exactly what everyone of us was thinking.. There is a reason why coach Cimino’s names gets put into the same sentence as Bob Hurley. He cares….In last nights 60 Minutes segment on Hurley, the question asked was if he was dissapointed that he never had the chance to take on the challenge of being a college coach and he responded by saying something like “this is a pretty big challenging as it is”..
PS.. let us savor the taste of this before we start the treck to Queens… I’m in
mvhs65… lets hope the next barnfire at that school is planned..
great accomplishment. unsigned seniors Samuels Walker And Ashton should be Div 2 scholarship athletes. Jabarie didnt do this alone
Just saw that mount Vernon is #18 in the nation (usa-today) congrats again
Still trying to find out if freshman Bartley played at the Feds…I don’t recall the live-blogs mentioning him!
bartley did not play.. here are the minutes
hinds 36,khalid 33, cousins 25, stevens and walker 20, horace 16, damani 9, Q and mashall 7, josh 3, givvion and adam 2,
So seniors played most,and juniors nearly all the rest.
Was Hinds playing at the state level as a freshman?
why do you keep asking about Bartley Louis ?
Louis E
Yes Hinds was playing important minutes as a 9th grader. I remember they played Roman Catholic at the prime time shootout score was tied under 20 secs to go and coach called an isolation play for Jabarie he took it to the hole was fouled and hit the foul shot to win the game.
amazing, amazing accomplishment. I tip my hat to Coach Cimmino, his assistants and all his players. MV was almost definitely the least talented of the three teams in the Fed, yet they come out on top. MV has had some great runs, but this has to go down as one of the all-time best. Beating a loaded CK in OT, wow!
Longwood…I’m trying to get a measure of how good-for-his-age he is…some years MV plays no freshmen at all,some years they have 8th graders (Coburn and Hinds).Trying to figure the superstars-of-the-future.
Congrats to the mt vernon boys basketball team and their coaching staff. Congrats to my home town of mt vernon and everybody in it!
Great posts everyone. Certainly, Coach is NY State Coach of the year. Who cares what the official vote is. We know. Also, The rest of the team behind Jabarie is much more talented than most people are aware of. Just watch next year. Unfortunately, for a senior like Kenny Ellis, no one really got to see his awesome skills that would have earned him all conference or more on other teams. The good news is Kenny is an honor student and should have a very bright futurre ahead of him.
Louis E.
Just because you get called up as a 9th grader is no guarentee you will be a starter at MV, Bobby plays his best players and spreads the minutes as best he can. jabarie, kevin, ben and sharrod were very special players. Bartley right now looks no where near the caliber player as those I just mentioned, but who am I to judge being I’ve only see him play 15 minutes at best. Yea, getting called up for a cup of coffee at MV basketballs program is a big deal, but the other side of the coin is this “Gus was cut as a junior” Gus set the bar, and was the best….sorry ben, rodney and jabarie
Just because you get called up as a 9th grader is no guarentee you will be a starter as a senior
Amen, spacecadet.
You had to see Gus Williams to appreciate how dominant a player he was in high school..in college..and finally in the pros. A perennial NBA All-Star, he is THE MEASURE by which all standards for MV guards [point and/or shooting] are established…in my humble opinion.
spacecadet..I do miss those cannolis from Arturo’s Bakery back in the day when there was a Gramatan Avenue Circle.
So how did the JV do this year anyway?
egg creams at the circle luncheonette, chicken delight fries, and when you drank to much Colt 45 a cup of coffee from the Cold N’ Hut…
Too bad a lot of these bloggers never saw the Wizard.. In know mvfan 71 and I spent some time seeing the magic….
By the way, I believe Artuso’s stiil has the original store in the bronx..
spacecadet…
love the amble down memory lane….unfortunately, the luncheonette [on 3rd st. near 4th ave] where I tasted my first chocolate egg creme [with a pretzel stick on the side] later became the site of a methadone clinic.
later on when my mom & dad moved to Fleetwood [near Cardasis’ florist shop], I came to worship the Artuso cannoli..a double helping with their strong Italian-style coffee to go.
Sorry they took out the Gramatan Circle..it was a classic!
p.s. spacecadet/mvfan71
Sorry that you guys may have been too young to see the great Bill Pleas play with the knights…...he was David Thompson before David Thompson…smooth moves…pogo-stick legs….of pickin’ coin off the top of the backboard lore. Sorry he didn’t have the frame or physical strength to survive in the NBA..he would have been something to behold!
Funny, mvfan and I played a rec. league game at Washington school in the very early 70’s.. I was not much of a player at 5’9, played good D and was able to make a lay-up, occasionally a 28 footer would hit iron. Long story short, all alone in the corner at least 25 feet from the nearest defender. Set up, take a shot and this guy comes from the paint, 2 steps and swats my shot back at me. It hits the side wall above the bleachers and then comes back at me so hard I have to duck so ball does not hit me in the head. I hope your getting all this because it’s not something that happens to you very often..This was the first time I saw Bill Pleas…
spacecadet…A very cool, first hand account of meeting Mr. Pleas. Consider yourself lucky to have such an experience. Having graduated MVHS in ‘65 I didn’t follow Pleas’ career closely after he graduated in ‘67. I know second hand he went to LaSalle Univ. in Philly, then transferred to the U. of Detroit to play for coach Dick Vitale [before he morphed into the studio clown he’s become at ESPN]. Where Pleas fits in on the time line of your rec league story, I’m not sure.
I do know that Mr. Pleas came upstate to play in an open tournament in Kingston, NY, circa 1974 or ‘75. I was in my late 20’s at the time and had developed my game to become a decent player in the small pond of basketball leagues up north. The team I played for in the tournament got bounced early on by Brickhouse, Thomas & company from Peekskill, NY. Another hot s**t squad from Newburgh had their own home-grown legends of Pittman, Frazier and Bucci face off against Pleas team. The house was rockin’ as Pleas stole the show, with an array of blocked shots, jams of rebounds, and dazzling shooting. When it was all over…I personally went over to thank Bill for ‘representing MV with such authority’. A very decent guy who I heard later became a true legend playing pro ball in Israel.
moderation: “Another hot shot squad…” Sorry for the inference of an unacceptable word.
I’ve been mourning the past month. But…. Congrats MV!!! After seeing you beat Poughkeepsie, I left with a bitter taste in my mouth. Not because you beat the Pioneers AGAIN, but it was because all the Pioneer faithful knew you would once again take the Federation. Quality, deep squad top to bottom with an excellent coach. Once again, Pok must take pointers from you. It was an honor playing you for the last 10 years even though we fell short everytime. Hopefully, the two programs can still play from time to time. Enjoy this victory MV it is much deserved. Godspeed!
Statesman
Good riddance lol, Now I only have to sweat New Ro and WP every year. Hoping you guys tear up the A division. You guys are losing your 3 best players. Who will be your up and coming stars I should look for? Like I’ve said before not crazy about Laffin as an X’s and O’s
guy but he always has a contender and his kids seem to get to the next level and at the high school level that is what its all about so I tip my hat to him. Good luck in the “A” division
Statesman….Poughkeepsie can become the next Peekskill, that is, dynasty material. The raw talent in a decent sized city when coupled with an excellent feeder system and top flight coach, ensures that victories are not far behind.. Best of luck in “A” next year.
p.s. I played with but mostly against Dino Larry in leagues & tournaments back in the day…he was one helluva player! Didn’t he win MVP in the ECAC Holiday Tournament when he played at Manhattan College?