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Alex Myers

Alex MyersAlex Myers has been a sports reporter at The Journal News for three years. During that time, he has covered a bit of everything, but a lot of golf, ranging from the high school level to last year's U.S. Open at Winged Foot. His sports writing goes back to his college days when he attended Wake Forest University. He's excited to take over this beat for the remainder of the season.

E-mail Alex Myers at alemyers@lohud.com

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Class C regional final: Tuckahoe vs. Friends Academy

March
8

3:16 p.m. – Here are some final stats from the game. Robert Johnson had 18 points for Tuckahoe and John Foster had another double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Jon Williams, who hit the game-winning shot for the Quakers, led all scorers with 23 points.

3:13 p.m. – After a timeout. Friends Academy inbounded the ball to [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on March 8th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Class B regional final: North Salem vs. Malverne

March
8

1:30: MALVERNE WINS 57-56. Details in a second. 

Ok, here is what happened in the final 24 seconds. NS had the ball up 56-55 with 24 seconds left. Josh O’Neil got stripped—possibly fouled—and Malverne had the ball. Malverned missed its first two shots but got the offensive rebound both times and then Shamel White had a tip-in [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on March 8th, 2008 | 70 Comments »

Class A regional final: Peekskill vs. Oneonta

March
7

9:30 p.m – Back with some final stats. Daquan Brickhouse and Ralph Watts each had 19 points. Brickhouse also had 5 assists, 3 steals and incredibly, no turnovers.Elliot Watson had 12 points and 7 rebounds and Mookie Jones had 11 points and 3 blocks.Perhaps the stat of the game is that Peekskill had just 5 [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on March 7th, 2008 | 39 Comments »

Class A boys final: No. 1 Peekskill vs. No. 2 Port Chester

March
2

9:31 p.m. – We’re down to the final 10 people in the building. Another great Championship Week is in the books. And what a Championship Sunday.

More titles for Mount Vernon and Peekskill boys. An epic performance by Angelei Aguirre propelling a stunning upset by White Plains and more heartbreak for the Mount Vernon girls. And [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on March 2nd, 2008 | 62 Comments »

Class AA boys final: No. 1 Mount Vernon vs. No. 2 Poughkeepsie

March
2

1:37 p.m. – The Mount Vernon players are still coming out to receive their awards. Public Address Announcer Rich Leaf just asked “Do we have enough for the assistants?” Fortunately, they did.

Okay, well one down and three to go on this Championship Sunday. So far, I’ve kept my streak alive of bringing about blowouts. Hopefully, [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on March 2nd, 2008 | 22 Comments »

Getting closer (part 2)

March
2

12:29 p.m. – Back to back layups by backup Tyrone Mitchell have put Mount Vernon ahead 35-22 with 2:45 left in the second.

This has really been a fast-paced game and pretty loosely called. In fact, the phrase “they’re letting them play” would be really understating things. Both teams certainly don’t seem to mind playing [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on March 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Class AA boys semifinal: No. 4 Scarsdale vs. No. 1 Mount Vernon

February
28

6:09 p.m. – Here are some final stats from the last game. Kevin Jones and Sherrod Wright each had 23 points for Mount Vernon.
David Zaitz led Scarsdale with 21.

Okay, time to magically switch over to Josh Thomson’s Sixth Man blog where I will be keeping everyone posted on the Class AA girls semifinal game between [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on February 28th, 2008 | 13 Comments »

12 minutes and counting

February
28

Greetings everyone. Alex Myers back on Kevin Devaney’s legendary blog to bring you the latest from all the games at the County Center today.

We are getting close to the tip of the Class AA semifinal between No. 4 Scarsdale and No. 1 Mount Vernon. The Knights swept the season series.

Following will be the girls Class [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on February 28th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Class B semifinal: Irvington vs. North Salem

February
26

10:19 p.m. – Here are some final stats from an incredible game:

For North Salem, Karl Miras had 17 points. Marc Miller and Josh O’Neil had 14 points, and Tom Kruz, aka Top Gun, added 14 rebounds.

For Irvington, Brittain Purcelle had 27 points and Nick Nedwick had 17 points.

Thanks for all the comments and remember [...]

Posted by Alex Myers on February 26th, 2008 | 55 Comments »

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