{"id":71207,"date":"2025-12-15T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:34:06","slug":"staten-island-hs-girls-hoops-2-games-curtis-drops-first-psal-4a-game-sea-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71207\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island HS girls\u2019 hoops (2 games): Curtis drops first PSAL 4A game; Sea loses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TRZ2OMS5Q5GWNH42U5RT2MHY6E\">NEW YORK, N.Y. &#8212; Curtis suffered its first PSAL 4A loss of the season Saturday, dropping a 76-49 decision to Thurgood Marshall on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I2E3ET4UXNCWFJBMRKGNW7ZPJE\">Kat Karounos paced Curtis with 16 points and recorded eight rebounds. Janiya Thomas contributed 10 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UWYASLSTR5EU5JXRBBHPJW26A4\">\u201cUnfortunately, we rebounded poorly and turned the ball over way too many times to give ourselves the best chance to win,\u201d said Curtis head coach Talia Sutton, whose club dropped to 4-1 in the PSAL and 6-3 overall. \u201cIt was a tough loss, but a good lesson for us to learn early in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"THRLMLVCYVDVVCA2PEKWNWHOWU\">Aniyah Bell addd seven points and 12 rebounds for the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6IBN5GDK6JA55OS7F3OE67WORA\">Curtis hosts New Dorp Monday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3XVSTAQ4BVHBZMW4SG53AFL2X4\">Nazareth 68, Sea 62<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3VTIYPEZYZDBNGYTD2RJ74FHSY\">BROOKLYN, N.Y. &#8212; The Vikings lost the CHSAA AAA road encounter Friday, despite Olivia DiMonda\u2019s 15 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6XYT6Y3Z45EXXDW6OOMBODJMHQ\">Maria O\u2019Connell recorded her first double-double of the year tallying 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Giovanna Grima finished with 12 points and six rebounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TVX5JV7Z2ZFN3B2NCHOGDJXSGY\">\u201cVery disappointed and frustrated with this loss for many reasons,\u201d said Sea head coach Josh Suslak. \u201cWhile our team played hard in a very tough environment and didn\u2019t back down to a physical Nazareth squad, we had one too many mistakes in pivotal moments and unnecessary turnovers that were completely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4ZZVBDUS5ZHABGSZUL3CD5T54U\">Late in the game the Vikings were in position to win, but weren\u2019t able to get over the hump in \u201cvery difficult and challenging circumstances.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"55LUU2Q4WNCFRIBSCXPYG3XT4I\">\u201cWith that said, our younger first time varsity players are gaining a ton of game experience in situations like these which should only help them grow as players and hopefully will lead to continued improvement for them individually and for us collectively as the season progresses,\u201d said Suslak, whose squad fell to 1-2 in the league and 2-2 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, N.Y. &#8212; Curtis suffered its first PSAL 4A loss of the season Saturday, dropping a 76-49&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-71207","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\/71207","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=71207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}