STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After hitting a rough patch in the schedule and dropping two straight games, Moore Catholic rebounded Thursday night with convincing 76-43 CHSAA AA victory over host St. Joseph Hill behind a balanced scoring attack.<\/p>\n
Allie Felci led the Mavericks with 23 points, including five treys, and nine rebounds. Emma Costanzo added 13 points, six assists and five rebounds, while Emma Bruno-Dunn contributed 11 points and nine rebounds. <\/p>\n
Alyssa Ragona and Veronica Barbato each finished with 10 points to give Moore five players in double figures.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a very good win, we played extremely well and were solid on both ends of the floor,\u201d said Moore assistant coach Amanda Henderson, who will be filling in for a few games while her father, Gene Henderson (the Mavs\u2019 head coach), is dealing with some health issues. \u201cThe team and I really wanted to have a strong game for Coach Gene. My dad has prepared both me and this team for moments like this, so everyone was ready. With experienced leaders like Emma Costanzo and the Felci sisters, they made it really easy to step in. I was proud of the way the entire team competed and supported one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victory improves the Mavericks\u2019 record to 9\u20130 in CHSAA AA league play and 14\u20134 overall. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are facing a challenging weekend ahead, taking on Xaverian in the Pink Games at Molloy High School on Saturday before traveling to St. John\u2019s Prep on Sunday for another CHSAA AA league matchup,\u201d added Amanda Henderson.<\/p>\n
Sea 62, Nazareth 49<\/p>\n
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Giovanna Grima recorded 13 points, five rebounds and four assists, and Maria O\u2019Connell had a tremendous effort with 12 points, seven rebounds while often guarding Coppin State-commit Arly Zapata effectively in the Vikings\u2019 CHSAA AAA victory on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The Vikes improved to 13-8 overall and evened their league record at 4-4.<\/p>\n
Olivia DiMonda finished with 11 points and five assists and Teagan Rowley recorded 11 points and eight rebounds. Addison Cunningham added six points and four rebounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn impressive league win for us over the always difficult and physical Nazareth,\u201d said Sea head coach Josh Suslak. \u201cVery proud of the tremendous growth and improvement our team has showed overall this season and to accomplish our fourth league win in this very challenging AAA division is nice to see. Our underclassmen are continuing to grow as players and their contributions on the floor are as well. Hopefully, we can keep some momentum heading towards our final two league games and playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manasquan 44, Sea 43 <\/p>\n
HOLMEL, N.J. — A day after winning their third straight Borough President\u2019s Cup, the Vikings had the tough chore of facing New Jersey\u2019s No. 7 ranked team last Sunday and suffered a heartbreaking defeat in the 19th annual Coaches Choice Shore Challenge.<\/p>\n
DiMonda led Sea in scoring with 10 points and added three rebounds, while Grima recorded nine points. Maria O\u2019Connell added seven points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery similar team to us and it was a highly competitive and physical game to be part of,\u201d said Suslak. \u201cOur girls played hard and matched Manasquan\u2019s aggressiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After hitting a rough patch in the schedule and dropping two straight games, Moore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-125477","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\/125477","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=125477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}