{"id":74696,"date":"2025-12-18T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74696\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:15:07","slug":"staten-island-hs-girls-hoops-2-games-sia-squeezes-past-poly-prep-msit-tops-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74696\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island HS girls\u2019 hoops (2 games): SIA squeezes past Poly Prep; MSIT tops PR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QRSJ6YS25VEB7JY2CF37LNA5JQ\">BROOKLYN, N.Y. &#8212; Valentina Li delivered a dominant offensive performance, pouring in 30 points to lead Staten Island Academy to 59-56 non-league win over host Poly Prep Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"47XOC6FD4JCKDOO33GWFIEBFBQ\">Alyssa Lopez followed with 19 points, continuing her strong play on both ends of the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NEVG5C6OGNCD5HVNHSJE4GW2MI\">Defense set the tone throughout the game as Rita Moschella and Lopez combined for 10 steals, creating fast-break opportunities and constant pressure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"M7GTTRHFQNGPZPOOCZOQ2NSCYE\">Chloe Factor was a force inside, pulling down eight rebounds. Margret Moschella, Carly Factor and Sam Swenson made key defensive contributions, helping shut down the opposition and secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3FBDU6EPRNCGBC44DLLAQJHTVU\">The Tigers are now 5-1 overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3LEGSXAODRFSLE73JMNMQH4LOA\">McKee\/Staten Island Tech 36, Port Richmond 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RM5VGXD2IBHK3M2V7XDRVTCQ3E\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; Almina Elmazi netted eight points and Fiona Huang added five as the Seagulls won the non-league home encounter Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PFVNFN4TR5GXHBJTTBNIJ7BSGA\">MSIT, which topped Petrides, 37-34, the night before in a battle of two 5-0 squads in the PSAL 3A Conference, led 17-4 at the half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. &#8212; Valentina Li delivered a dominant offensive performance, pouring in 30 points to lead Staten Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-74696","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\/74696","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=74696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}