BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2014 Kareem Nesbitt scored a game-high 21 points and Petrides built a double-digit, second-quarter lead en route to a 59-42 non-league decision over host Fort Hamilton on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Panthers, who also received 15 points from leading scorer Daynell Rowland, improved to 5-12 overall. Petrides has won two straight.<\/p>\n
Kendry Sanchez (13 points) and Dawsen Lay (10 points) paced the Tigers.<\/p>\n
The Panthers trailed 18-16 after one period, but they exploded for 24 second-quarter markers to take control. Nesbitt scored 10 points, Rowland added six and Aiden Gonzalez chipped in with a trey as the Sunnyside school took a commanding 40-25 advantage into the lockers.<\/p>\n
Nesbitt\u2019s seven second-half markers helped Petrides cruise the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez and Jaiden Brown teamed for another 13 points for Petrides.<\/p>\n
Dickinson 55, Tottenville 43<\/p>\n
JERSEY CITY \u2014 Shiloh Ezderman scored a team-high 14 points and the Pirates owned a halftime lead, but the Rams stormed back in the second half to take the 3rd annual Hudson County MLK Basketball Classic victory.<\/p>\n
Danny Garcia (nine points), Elias Souleidis (eight points) and Joe Mennella (seven points) also scored for Tottenville, which dropped to 11-8 overall.<\/p>\n
Zaier Henry finished with a game-high 25 points for Dickinson.<\/p>\n
Thanks in part to a combined 13 points from Ezderman and Garcia, the Pirates owned a 23-22 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n
Head coach Kevin Alesi\u2019s squad trailed 36-35 through three periods when the Rams saved their best for last. Henry, in fact, scored 10 fourth-quarter points, including four free throws, as Dickinson registered the double-digit win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2014 Kareem Nesbitt scored a game-high 21 points and Petrides built a double-digit, second-quarter lead en…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-108511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}