Big story of the day was Iona Prep’s 67-63 upset win over Cardinal Hayes. You really never know what to expect in the CHSAA. The Gaels’ big three of Brandon Williams (22), Isaiah Ice (17) and Matt Ryan (17) came up huge.
Stepinac wasn’t as lucky, as they fell to Christ the King 77-52. If the Crusaders can take anything away from the game, it’s the fact they were within six points of arguably the strongest team in the state at half.
Harrison gave Byram Hills quite a scare, taking the Bobcats to overtime. Byram was able to go on a 15-8 run to close the game out and secure a 69-62 win. Andrew Groll led the Bobcats with 19 points. Harrison’s Coby Lefkowitz, who hit a game-tying layup to send it to OT, led all scorers with 26.
With wins today Peekskill and Panas keep pace with each other in their league. On Thursday the Red Devils face Yorktown while the Panthers take on Kennedy. A win by both teams would mean they would split the league title. Quite the turnaround for a Panas team that was 3-5 at one point in the season.
Today’s roundups:
Iona Prep 67, Cardinal Hayes 63: At Cardinal Hayes, Brandon Williams led the Gaels with 22 points and eight rebounds. Isaiah Ice and Matt Ryan scored 17 points apiece. Freshman Ty Jerome had four assists.
Christ the King 77, Stepinac 52: At Christ the King, Josh James had 25 points. James Decker added nine for the Crusaders, who trailed 28-22 at the half.
Byram Hills 69, Harrison 62, OT: At Harrison, Harrison outscored the Bobcats 17-11 in the fourth quarter, which included Coby Lefkowitz making the game-tying lay up with 14 seconds left in regulation to send the contest into overtime. In overtime, Byram Hills reclaimed momentum and finished on a 15-8 run. Andrew Groll had 19 points while Brian Skelly added 14. Ryan Golden and Jeff Lynch each had 10. Lefkowitz ended the game with 26 points while Matt Stein added 11 for the Huskies.
Peekskill 73, Lakeland 57: At Peeksill, Musheed Muhammad scored 20 points and had14 rebounds in the win. Dan Casey added 20 points and six assists. Anthony Mendoza and Stephen Harten had 12 points apiece for the Hornets.
Panas 57, Yorktown 40: At Panas, Vaughn Dweck had 22 points and seven rebounds for Panas. Tim McCauley added 14 points and five assists. Stephen DiMaria had 11 points for Yorktown.
Hen Hud 57, Westlake 54: At Westlake Monday, Hunter Glashoff had 22 points and hit six 3s. Carson Cole added 17 points. Rich Maio had 23 points for Westlake.
Green Meadow 62, West Caldwell Tech 32: At Green Meadow, Mehmet Baskoylu had 16 points as he was honored on Senior Day. Lukas Chin scored 14 points. Taylor Miccio had 11 points.
Riverside 49, Roosevelt 40: At Riverside, Khalif Mason had 14 points. Eddie Jackson had 13 points and three steals. Keanu Douglas had seven rebounds. Demetrius Thomas had 15 points and Rakeem Samuels had 14 for the Indians.
Biondi 61, Clark Academy 43: At Clark Academy, Johnnie Gray had 18 points and seven assists in the win. Donyell McMillian scored 13 points. Calvin Walters and Taiquam Johnson had 15 points apiece for Clark Academy. Shane McCalla had seven blocks.
Pleasantville 55, Westlake 39: At Pleasantville, Jack Eisenberg had 26 points, 10 rebounds and four steals. Charlie Montgomery added nine points while Nick Greto had eight. Tommy Hopkins had 20 points for the Wildcats.
Putnam Valley 59, Pawling 45: At Putnam Valley, Zach Coleman had 20 points and eight rebounds. Ryan Basso had 11 while Jelani Bell-Isaac had nine points and 11 rebounds.
Rye 67, Port Chester 65: At Port Chester, Max Twyman had 21 points including four clutch free throws in the last 30 seconds of the game to seal the win. Mike Garofalo added 15 while Mike O’Neil had 13. Tim Brown had 20 points for the Rams. Mike Iantonino had 11 while Preston Higgins and Kayson Cuyatti each added 10.
North Salem 61, John Jay 39: At John Jay, Joe Tunas had 22 points while Umar Singh added 17. John Jay had nine different scorers including a six point performance by Matt Bernstein and Joe Kells.
Carmel 46, Brewster 26: At Carmel, Dan Benkhen had 12 points and RJ Martinez had 11. Donnell Patterson had 11 points for the Bears.
Woodlands 59, Sleepy Hollow 36: At Woodlands Monday, D’Andre Tilford led the Falcons with 13 points. Jamil Gambari scored 12 points. Nick Arduino scored eight points for Sleepy Hollow.
Valhalla 78, Hawthorne Cedar Knolls 29: At Valhalla, Mike Linnane had 14 points. Terrance Tribble had eight points and 16 rebounds. Chris Brown had 12 points for the Hornets.
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How could Westlake have 2 games in 1 day? P’ville & Hen Hud?
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Josh, where is Mahopac Somers recap?
Superfan… Just posted it.
My final four prediction in class A:Byram Hills,Pok,Eastchester,Panas.
IF PANAS GETS ON THE EASTCHESTER SIDE OF THE BRACKET…...........”LOOKOUT”
ip is rollin’ #watchout
New Ro went to overtime with Iona. Iona beat Cardinal Hayes. That means New Ro is better than Cardinal Hayes.
Lol new ro
New Ro February 6th, 2013 at 7:37 am
New Ro went to overtime with Iona. Iona beat Cardinal Hayes. That means New Ro is better than Cardinal Hayes.
PRINCE PERFORMING AS PPR!!! February 6th, 2013 at 8:22 am
New Ro February 6th, 2013 at 7:37 am
New Ro went to overtime with Iona. Iona beat Cardinal Hayes. That means New Ro is better than Cardinal Hayes.
NEW RO….. FACT!!...
CONGRATS… TO CHRIST THE KING!!.... GREAT JOB!!.... #REALITY CHECK!!
PPR,
Did you ever see Forrest Gump? “Stuupid is as stuupid does”
Not ready to jump off Byram bandwagon, cause they are very strong but….OT vs an average Harrison squad exposed a couple of things may come into play in Sectionals..Lefkowitz is athletic slasher ripped them for 26 and got them in foul trouble… Panas (Dweck), POK, and Peek have similar athletes that may cause problems for them
Wanna see how they bounce back vs Harborfields as this may have been overconfidence or hitting an amped up opponent on Senior night, but its something to think of as it had not shown before.
btw Groll has improved as season went on, clearly an All Section big and can cause problems for any team in half court.
New ro was making a point. Comparative scoring doesn’t always add up. You must use the eye test when comparing teams that don’t or won’t play each other. How about Somers beat Iona, nuetral floor, thus they could hang with Hayes….
Cuse,
If we use the Hoops Fan math. Somers beat Iona and Iona beat Hayes so Somers is better than Hayes. New Rochelle lost in overtime on a Neutral court to Iona and Iona beat Hayes in Hayes’s gym so that makes New Rochelle way better than Hayes. Hayes beat Stepinac by 15 so New Rochelle is way way better than Stepinac. MV beat New Rochelle so MV is way way way better than Stepinac.
Math,
When did I say any of that? You should forget about “math” and go back to “reading comprehension”. Comparative scoring does not always add up, of course. But no one has been talking about if A beat B and B beat C then A would beat C. We’ve been talking about common opponents. Big difference. My larger point has been to look at a team’s entire body of work – a point that clearly sailed far over the abyss that is your head.
You apparently aren’t aware that Stepinac beat New Ro comfortably. Sorry buddy, try again.
Haywood… You and a few others are way down on Eastchester. You should be careful what you wish for. Eastchester almost beat Poughkeepsie last year and is significantly better this year.
New Ro not that good. I have watched both teams this year. Iona Prep better team.
Coaching is better. They are starting 3 Sophmores, 1 Freshman, 1 Senior. New Ro’s season will be over very soon.
What happened to the small point guard that Woodlands had last year?
Josh
Still dont think Iona is better than New Rochelle even after they beat them in NYC plus now beating one of the best teams in the Tri State area! Iona is at least a top 7 teams in this area. Case Closed. Also the Frosh who they brought up has only been their for a week and he is ranked as the number 2 frosh in the City by Hoop Scoop.
Josh,
What happened to Eastchester this season?
I also believe Eastchester was the #3 seed when the #11 seed on a mission came to down and pulled out a nail-biter. Pok is also better this season.
Eastchester will be scary again next season but I do think Panas can win if they try to run Eastchester out the gym—wearing them out. Athletic teams are their kyptonite.
Hoops Fan,
No comparisons and the A beat B? Your entire argument about Stepinac being ranked ahead of MV was that Stepinac lost to Loughlin by less points than MV. I tried to paste your comments from yesterday but it has been in moderation for a long time.
Big W for Iona Prep knocking off Hayes at Hayes…...Iona Prep has been inconsistent, but any team that is well coached and plays hard D can pull an upset. CHSAA is hard to follow….CTK looks like the favorite to me
Who is this freshman Ty Jerome from IP?
Was he just called up?
Potential?
Math,
You’ve gotten what I said completely incorrect. Both Step and MV lost to Loughlin so thats not really a strong case for either team. Step/Loughlin was a much closer game, but MV was missing Martin vs Loughlin so that could have been a factor. My argument for Step being ranked over MV is pretty simple – Stepinac has a much better resume overall. Step has beaten excellent teams like St Rays (by 15) and Molloy on the road. MV has played an un-MV-like schedule without many challenges. Against their one very tough opponent – Loughlin – MV didn’t make a strong statement. Thats it.
Ip
Rumor has it that some of the schools in the chsaa aa want no part of staying in it. Expect major changes next season.
St. Francis Prep will move down! Fordham Prep I can see moving down.
league info,
Interesting. I was under the impression Fordham wanted to play up the last two years – and they’ve pulled off a big upset over St Rays, beat Iona and almost beat an undermanned Step team and beat Mount this week. I don’t see Iona moving down as they have excellent young players. Mount certainly shouldn’t move down – they always have players and they made the semis last year.
I do think going forward Fordham is a better fit for the A league – they have natural rivals like Xavier and Regis and a geographic rival in Spellman. Because of Fordham’s high tuition and high academic standards I just don’t know if I see them being able to compete in the AA every year – they definitely are the type of team that can pull off an upset any team because of the way they play.
St Francis seems like an obvious team to move down in the Bk/Q AA to A.
What would be interesting would be to see if the AA leagues then stick with 5 teams each (both leagues have 6 now) or add a team. If the Bk/Q league adds a team next year it would likely be Nazareth which has a big time Jr wing Samson Akilo…but I’m not sure how Nazareth’s younger classes are. If the Bx/M AA adds a team, it would likely be All Hallows who is tied for Spellman atop the Bx/M A league and was always a AA team. If the AA’s stick with 5 teams it would make the leagues even tougher and free up 2 more non-league games.
There will definitely be some changes with the A and B leagues. The Bx/M/West A league is currently All Hallows, Spellman, Xavier, Regis, LaSalle and Salesian. The B league is currently Scanlon, Sacred Heart, St Agnes, Blessed Sacrament and Cathedral. Scanlon and SH are both good this year, so they should probably move up to A. St Agnes and Blessed Sacrament are both scheduled to close, so that would almost empty the B league. Cathedral is almost winless in B, so they will have a hard time moving up to A. Plus Kennedy is joining the CHSAA and will likely be in the A. An A league consisting of Spellman, Scanlon, Xavier, LaSalle, Sacred Heart, Salesian, Kennedy and Fordham and/or All Hallows would be a strong A league. Salesian could end up getting some of Bl Sacrament’s players as well as LaSalle getting some of St Agnes’ players, so those two programs could improve.
Hoops Fan
St. Francis does not want to move down- Coach is old school and has played in the AA for years.
Iona better not move down as they have a chance to go 5-5 in the league which is in essence one game behind the Stepinac record of 6-4.
IP,
No way Iona should move down if they have Ryan in the soph class and a frosh getting minutes on varsity. How good is the freshman? And who is the third soph? Ice and Capuano are very solid players who can hold their own with most AA guards.
But as far as your thoughts on league records – sorry – but you’re off. Stepinac is 10-6 in AA right now. Iona is 5-8. The Bk/Q games count in the league standings. I give Iona a lot of credit for the Hayes upset, that was impressive. St Rays is 8-5, but has a tough game against Loughlin coming up on Fri. If St Rays loses to Loughlin, Stepinac would be tied in 2nd place with St Rays.
IP,
I agree. I can’t see Leary wanting to move down at SFP. It seems that Fordham Prep wants to play in AA too. So maybe there won’t be any AA changes next year. I do think A and B will be moved around with St Agnes and Bl Sac closing and Kennedy joining.
Ip
Its your entire league record that matters. Hayes in 1st stepinac/ rays going for 2 and 3 seed. Stepinac finishing 4-2 in brooklyn/queens was big. Wins over xaverian francis cross and molly is ecellent.
Hoops:
Hayes 12-3 step 11-6 rays 10-6 iona 7-9 fordham 5-11 mount 5-11
chsaa
a little confused – The league has the records in two separate columns. So will the records be consolidated?
IP,
Yes, all the AA games count including the 2 games with the SI teams. I don’t think the SI teams have won any AA games this year, so all the records CHSAA posted include the two wins over St Peters and moore catholic. Everyone ends up playing 18 league games. 10 in your division, 6 bk/q games, 2 SI games.
Hoops
So it looks like Stepinac should get a first round bye- I think Iona has a outside shot at getting to the Quarterfinals depending on who their early round games are – Who wold you say will be the finals 8 teams.
BTW I think I shut big mouth Prince up on the football with the “clinicing” comment.
IP,
That comment on the football blog was merciless. I almost…almost…felt bad for ppr for a minute.
The Qtrs are hard to predict. I don’t know who won the St Rays/HC game yesterday. St Rays still has Xaverian and Loughlin. Assuming St Rays in 2-1 in their final 3 and Step beats Moore Catholic – Step and St Rays would be tied for 2nd in Bx/West. I’m not sure how the tiebreaker goes, but based on how Stepinac beat St Rays last game, Step should get #2 seed and the bye.
Assuming the rankings look like this: Bx/W – Hayes and Stepinac byes, St Rays – 3, Iona – 4, Mount
5, Fordham -6. And bk/q is CTK -1, Loughlin2, Molloy3, Xaverian4, HC -5, SFP -6. Loughlin as to beat St Rays or else Molloy would get the #2 seed in Bk/Q.These rankings are only for the Archdiocesan playoffs. After the Archdiocesan, I believe they re-seed the City playoffs based on who teams do in Archdiocesan. So in other words, Iona would want to make sure they win vs Mount in first round of archdiocesan. I think CTK, Loughlin and Hayes are pretty clearly the Top 3 – but Loughlin and Hayes can clearly be beat. Stepinac, Molloy and St Rays are the next 3 (in my opinion) and are all pretty close. I think I’d put Iona at #7, Mount/Xaverian/HC fighting for #8. Fordham at 11 and SFP at 12 overall.
Hoops Fan
Holy Cross beat St Rays
IP,
Wow. St Rays is an enigmatic team this year. They beat Hayes once, go to OT the other time. Lose to CTK 94-92, beat Molloy I think, then lose to Fordham, Holy Cross and Iona. I think Loughlin still has to beat St Rays to assure Stepinac of the #2 seed and Step has to beat Moore Catholic
Byram hills can contend, but they are not not nearly as good as people have been talking them up to be. Jeff Lynch (Super 7) is playing well this season but not super 7 well. Ryan Golden is having a strong season and usually continues to deliver as we get deeper into the season. Andrew Groll is getting better with every game and I expect him to do big things in sectionals. Brian Skelly is a great shooter, but thats about it. He is pretty slow up and down the court and i am not sure that he can deliver in the playoffs when it matters. Byram, in my mind, will make it to the county center, but I think that will be the end of the road for them. Im not so sure they can handle the heavy competetion and the bright lights.
Ip:
Your entire 18 league game schedule counts when placing the seedings for the 8 team ny archdiocese tourney. Depending on how you do in that tourney, teams get reseeded.
Then the intersectional playoffs start which includes all chsaa aa teams.