BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Senior Darin Humes-James scored a career-high 19 points and was named game MVP as Susan Wagner recorded a 71-65 victory over Wings at the 21st annual Hersh Classic on Sunday at Jefferson HS.

In addition to Humes-James, the 2-0 Falcons received plenty of support as four players finished with double digits in points. Chris Albano (eight rebounds) scored a game-high 21 points while Charles Gambino and Adem Djonbalic added 11 markers apiece.

Gambino also turned in a strong defensive game, according to head coach Danny Lanigan, and junior Clevi Hoxha (six points) grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds for the Falcons.

Jamel Addison scored a team-high 17 for Wings, which is a 4A team from the Bronx.

The Falcons fell behind 18-10 after one quarter, but they scratched and clawed their way back into the game behind Albano (nine second-quarter points). Then Djonbalic gave the Sea View school its first lead (35-33) when he buried a buzzer-beating trey at the halftime buzzer.

“Big basket,’’ said Lanigan. ”We got off to a cold start as a team and that gave us some momentum going into the second half.’’

Humes-James scored 16 of his 19 points after intermission, including 6 of 7 free throws.

Djonbalic added two big threes and the Falcons canned 6 of 8 freebies during the final eight minutes to stave off Wings.

Forest Hills 74, Curtis 58

Makhiye Washington scored a team-high 17 points, but the Warriors fell behind by double digits in the second quarter before dropping the Hersh Classic outcome to the Rangers on Saturday.

Jayden Faulkner and Amare Gaskin added 15 and 11 points respectively for Curtis, which dropped to 0-1 overall.

Pregnon Titi finished with a game-high 22 points for the Rangers.

Washington scored eight points while Faulkner and Gaskin each added a three-point play as the Warriors only trailed 18-16 after the first period.

The Rangers, however, got some separation after outscoring the St. George school 44-24 in the middle two quarters, led by Titi’s 14 points. Aaron Tutt, Zion Hamilton and Syncere Fergerson added eight points apiece as FH built a 62-40 advantage after three quarters and cruised the rest of the way.

WHEELS 90, MSIT 63

Nizayah Jordan poured in a career-high 42 points, but the Seagulls found themselves behind the eight ball early and never recovered as they dropped the Hersh Classic decision to the Manhattan school.

Jordan, a senior, buried seven three-pointers and finished 9 for 9 from the free-throw line as he surpassed his previous high of 33 in last week’s season-opener against Paul Robeson.

In addition to Jordan, Dalton Cherubin scored 13 points for the 0-2 Seagulls.

Jordan Castillo and Angel Piron paced the Wolves with 25 and 22 points, respectively.

Castillo and Piron teamed for 18 first-quarter points as WHEELS raced to a 26-5 advantage and never looked back.

Junior varsity

Susan Wagner 41, Wings 39

Dylan Ameneiros scored 21 points and the Falcons overcame a seven-point deficit in the final four minutes to squeeze out the Hersch Classic victory over the Bronx school at Jefferson HS.

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