STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Senior Eenej Vinson led a balanced attack with 15 points as Moore Catholic raced to an early lead before cruising to a 70-40 non-league victory over visiting Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Monday in Graniteville.<\/p>\n
Nick DeGrado and Alexander Raphael added 14 and 10 points, respectively, for the Mavericks, who concluded the regular season with a 5-18 mark overall.<\/p>\n
Moore will now direct its attention to the CHSAA A playoffs. The Mavericks will look to secure a spot into Saturday\u2019s quarterfinals when they meet Monsignor McClancy in a play-in game on Wednesday at Xaverian HS in Brooklyn (5 p.m.).<\/p>\n
If the Mavericks defeat the Crusaders, they\u2019ll meet top-seeded St. John\u2019s Prep in Saturday\u2019s quarters at either Xaverian or Mount St. Michael in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Mavs rode the red-hot hand of senior DeGrado to a quick start. The three-year varsity player scored 11 first-quarter points on the strength of the first of his two three-pointers and a pair of conventional three-point plays. <\/p>\n
Matt Mieles added six and Vinson and Raphael chipped in with four points apiece as Moore jumped to a 31-7 lead and cruised the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Hudson Catholic 77, Moore 55<\/p>\n
JERSEY CITY \u2014 Mieles tallied a career-high 12 points, but the Mavs found themselves in an early hole and never recovered as they dropped the non-league decision to the Hawks on Friday.<\/p>\n
DeGrado, Vinson and Matt Gibbons added eight points apiece for the Graniteville school.<\/p>\n
Aston Graves (26 points) and Jaden Mason (14 points) paced the Hawks.<\/p>\n
Graves, who finished with four three-pointers, connected for three behind the arc en route to 11 first-quarter points as Hudson raced to a 22-12 advantage at quarter\u2019s end and never looked back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Senior Eenej Vinson led a balanced attack with 15 points as Moore Catholic raced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-136191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136191","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=136191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}