{"id":33001,"date":"2025-11-08T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33001\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:22:08","slug":"staten-island-hs-football-defense-takes-centerstage-as-tottenville-squeezes-by-curtis-14-13-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33001\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island HS football: Defense takes centerstage as Tottenville squeezes by Curtis, 14-13 (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/highschoolsports\/\" title=\"Navigate to High School Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High School Sports<\/a>Updated: Nov. 08, 2025, 7:20 a.m.|Published: Nov. 08, 2025, 7:02 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"PSAL Football: Curtis vs. Tottenville\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/R7RCXVIKRFFJRH6MKRKDZAV5CU.jpg\"\/>Tottenville&#8217;s Nic Constantino (2) helped change the momentum of Friday&#8217;s PSAL 4A encounter against Curtis after returning a kickoff 75 yards late in the first half. The junior&#8217;s big return helped set up running back Tyshawn Bent&#8217;s go-ahead touchdown and two-point conversion. (Advance\/SILive.com | Jason Paderon)(Advance\/SILive.com | Jason Paderon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J7YESB35GBEHHK3TOW5NHHEXJU\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Nic Constantino referred to it as hitting one alley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MQGVKE2LU5AV5MZ2D3DECSJB3A\">Head coach Brian Neville said it was about hitting the wedge.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie De Biase Jr. is a senior sports reporter for SILive.com. He is the head beat reporter for HS football, HS boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; soccer, HS boys&#8217; basketball and HS softball while also contributing to the HS&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High School SportsUpdated: Nov. 08, 2025, 7:20 a.m.|Published: Nov. 08, 2025, 7:02 a.m.Tottenville&#8217;s Nic Constantino (2) helped change&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-33001","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\/33001","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=33001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}