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Farrell head coach Pete Tutrone has his Lions headed to the SIHSL JV semis. (Kara Buzga for Staten Island Advance)..<\/p>\nSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The three highest seeds and an upstart prevailed in the quarterfinal round at the Borough President Vito Fossella SIHSL JV Tournament.<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Curtis kicked off its tourney play in style with a 94-40 walloping of No. 8 New Dorp in the first of a two-game card at the Warriors\u2019 gym in St. George. No. 5 Susan Wagner edged No. 4 Moore Catholic, 45-44, in a nip-and-tuck, overtime battle in the nightcap to advance as well.<\/p>\n
In the opener of a double-dip at Tottenville HS in Huguenot, three-time defending champion St. Peter\u2019s got past the host Pirates, 54-39, and No. 2 Monsignor Farrell used a 22-11 fourth-quarter run to overcome an upset bid from No. 7 St. Joseph by-the-Sea, 47-40.<\/p>\n
The semifinal matchups are now set for Friday evening at Curtis. The Eagles and Lions kick things off at 4:30, followed by the Falcons and host Warriors at 6 p.m. <\/p>\n
Susan Wagner 45, Moore Catholic 44<\/p>\n
The night\u2019s most intriguing matchup needed an extra session to determine a winner and Abidina Baldie\u2019s four OT points proved to be the difference as the Falcons pulled off the minor upset over the Mavs.<\/p>\n
Kyle Kyee found Kasyn Ford, who knocked down a short jumper at the close of regulation to force the OT, and despite trailing by five points in the extra period, the Falcons were able to pull it out behind solid defense and leading scorer Jayden Acea.<\/p>\n
The Mavs scored the first five points in OT before Baldie\u2019s two buckets cut the lead to 44-43. Acea\u2019s layup proved to the the gamer with under 10 seconds to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud of the effort and the refusal to back down,\u201d SW head coach Bash Pelinkovic boldly stated. \u201cIt\u2019s high school basketball; mistakes are going to be made, but the question is how do you respond and tonight my team responded accordingly. They moved forward to the next play.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs well as we played the success starts with Kyee. He handled the pressure well and controlled the tempo of the game,\u201d lauded Pelinkovic. \u201cWe look forward to our matchup with Curtis on Friday. They are a well-coached team and are playing at a high level. It should be a good game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Farrell head coach Pete Tutrone has his Lions headed to the SIHSL JV semis. (Kara Buzga for Staten Island Advance)..<\/p>\n
Monsignor Farrell 47, Sea 40<\/p>\n
The Lions got a big fourth from Bryce Moye, who scored nine of his team-high 12 points over the game\u2019s final eight minutes to stave off the Vikings\u2019 upset bid to advance.<\/p>\n
Sea led 20-15 at the break and still held a four-point bulge heading to the final stanza, but in addition to their play in the paint offensively, head coach Pete Tutrone\u2019s squad stiffened up the defense and held the Huguenot school to just six points in the period.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoye was a force for us in the fourth quarter and Jamie Cruz and Mike Olson gave us a big lift off the bench in the second-half and those were some of the keys to the turnaround,\u201d stated Tutrone, whose club defeated Sea for the third time this season.<\/p>\n
The Vikings big opening-quarter burst was highlighted by a pair of threes from Jack Murphy and another from Mike Prue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey really didn\u2019t do anything that we haven\u2019t seen. They just came out and played hard and were in a rhythm and in turn took us out of our rhythm,\u201d said Tutrone. \u201cWe were able to settle in in the second-half and chip away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter\u2019s is always tough to play, they\u2019re well-coached and even though we beat them twice in the regular season those games are completely irrelevant. You can throw those games out the window and let\u2019s just go play,\u201d admitted Tutrone. <\/p>\n
Vincent Kraker netted eight for the Lions, while Cruz and Anthony Viani split 12.<\/p>\n
Rob Johnson led Sea with 11, while James Yannantuona had nine.<\/p>\n
St. Peter\u2019s 54, Tottenville 39<\/p>\n
The Eagles got all they could handle from the pesky Pirates (who entered the game unbeaten in PSAL play) in a game that head coach Matt Genovese described as \u201cmuch closer than the final score.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pirates led 16-14 after one period of play and although the New Brighton school took a 27-21 halftime advantage, it had to work all game against the upstart No. 6 seed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was impressed with the way Tottenville battled us all night and we really didn\u2019t start to feel comfortable until the second-half when we started getting the ball inside to our big man John Greenwald (12 points),\u201d said Genovese, who has led the Eagles to three consecutive SIHSL titles.<\/p>\n
Greenwald scored 10 of his points after the intermission and teamed with Mikhial Lopez (team-high 13) to avoid the upset bid. Ben Terry and Ryan Tuite split 18 for the Eagles.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be tougher, plain and simple, next game if we want to beat Farrell,\u201d added Genovese. \u201cThey beat us up in both games, inside and outside. They\u2019re really good. We just have to play a complete game, because they will. Pete (Tutrone) always has them ready to play so we have to be ready from the jump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blair Tadros led the Pirates with a game-high 15 points.<\/p>\n
Curtis 94, New Dorp 40<\/p>\n
The Warriors flexed their muscles early and often as they routed the Centrals in St. George.<\/p>\n
Colin Reinhold and Matthew Grace tallied 20 points apiece for the winners to lead the charge. Omar Jenkins and Ramiek Black added 13 and 12, respectively, while Kayden King chipped in with eight.<\/p>\n
Jayden Crawford had 14 and Leo Quoku 10 for the Centrals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The three highest seeds and an upstart prevailed in the quarterfinal round at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-123859","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\/123859","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=123859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}