BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2014 Senior Chris Albano buried a left-wing jumper just before overtime expired as Susan Wagner upended host Abraham Lincoln via an 81-79 PSAL 4A Brooklyn-Staten Island II division decision on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Albano, a three-year varsity player, finished with a career-high 34 points, including three three-pointers and a 7-for-8 performance from the free-throw line. Darin Humes-James (14 points), Charles Gambino (11 points) and Adem Djonbalic (11 points, three treys) also contributed offensively as the Falcons defeated the Railsplitters for the second time in two weeks.<\/p>\n
Wagner, meanwhile, won its third straight game to improve to 9-2 overall, including 4-2 in league play.<\/p>\n
\u201cA classic game in a classic gym,\u2019’ said second-year SW head coach Danny Lanigan. \u201dLincoln has been a thorn in our side since we joined the division. We were 0-4 going into this year and we finally got them at home two weeks ago. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut winning in their gym is a much taller task,\u2019’ Lanigan added. \u201dIt\u2019s a hostile environment \u2014 without a doubt the hardest place to play in our division. Add in that one of their best players (Ja-Keem Gibson) didn\u2019t play in the first game, we knew it was going to be tough. Very tough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank God we have Chris Albano.\u2019’<\/p>\n
Jace Parris finished with a team-high 23 points while Marquise Lloyd (16 points), Bryce Clark (11 points) and Gibson (11 points) chipped in for Lincoln.<\/p>\n
The Falcons owned a 70-68 lead with just seconds left in regulation, but Lloyd took a Parris feed on the baseline and buried a shot to force OT. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe controlled a lot of the fourth,\u2019’ explained Lanigan. \u201dBut every time we looked to secure the win, they made the right cut, the right pass and just fought to get the game to OT.\u2019’<\/p>\n
The overtime period was also a seesaw battle, but the Falcons, who received four points apiece from Albano and Gambino in OT, owned a 79-77 lead in the waning seconds.<\/p>\n
However, Lloyd sank a pair of freebies with 19 ticks left to set the stage for Albano\u2019s heroics. <\/p>\n
The heady guard brought the ball up the left side while being guarded by Lincoln senior Jonathan Medina. Albano hesitated temporarily as soon as he crossed midcourt, then dribbled toward the left wing. Once he crossed the three-point line, he took a step-back jumper that hit nothing but the bottom of the net with just seconds left. Lincoln had no timeouts remaining, and the final seconds ran out, thus giving the Falcons the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust an absolute tour de force performance form start-to-finish,\u2019’ praised Lanigan of Albano. \u201dHe played (36) minutes and capped off his performance by hitting the game-winning shot with time winding down.\u2019’<\/p>\n
Wagner fell behind early in the first half, but they owned a 31-30 lead just before the halftime buzzer when Lloyd nailed a three to give the Railsplitters a two-point advantage at halftime. <\/p>\n
Lanigan\u2019s troops found themselves in a 39-31 hole to start the second half, but Djonbalic got hot from the perimeter to help SW take a 52-51 lead into the final quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the tenets of our school is resiliency and that\u2019s how we won the game tonight,\u2019’ concluded Lanigan. \u201dWe just kept battling.\u2019’<\/p>\n
Tottenville 64, Eagle Academy SI 61<\/p>\n
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Shiloh Ezderman scored a team-high 19 points and Dom Mennella tallied 17 on the strength of five three-pointers as the Pirates recorded the PSAL 3A division win over host Eagle at the Dreyfus Intermediate School in Stapleton.<\/p>\n
Tottenville, which also received nine points from Zyeveon Miller, remained undefeated in league play with a 6-0 mark (8-2 overall). <\/p>\n
Armani Perez (seven rebounds) tallied a career-high 29 points, Juneek Daniels added 12 points and 10 caroms and Anthony Riley chipped in with 10 markers and eight boards for Eagle (2-4, 3-7).<\/p>\n
Ezderman scored six and both Mennella and Nicholas Picinic sank threes as the Pirates raced to a 20-16 advantage after one quarter. Mennella hit two more treys in the second to help Tottenville maintain its four-point lead (33-29).<\/p>\n
Thanks to Perez\u2019s 10-point third quarter, Eagle was able to tie the score at 45-45 entering the final eight minutes.<\/p>\n
Although Eagle staged a run that helped it built a seven-point lead in the final period behind Perez (10 points), the Pirates eventually turned the tables. <\/p>\n
Ezderman scored six more points; Elias Souleidis, Picinic and Abdelrahman Hassan each buried triples; and Mennella canned two free throws down the stretch to help the visitors pull out the victory.<\/p>\n
St. Raymond\u2019s 66, St. Peter\u2019s 48<\/p>\n
THE BRONX \u2014 Sophomore Noah Scott scored a career-high 14 points, but the Eagles fell behind by double digits early and never recovered as they dropped the CHSAA AA decision to the host Ravens on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Tyler Schoenberg added 10 points and Nico Parlanti and Aaron Vazquez teamed for another 14 as St. Peter\u2019s dropped to 2-3 overall, including 0-1 in league play.<\/p>\n
Senior Jomar Fuentes led St. Ray\u2019s balanced attack with 14 points, including four three-pointers. NaJay Bess (nine points), Elijah Jenkins (eight points) and Brazir Nelson (eight points) also contributed offensively as the Ravens improved to 3-3 overall (3-1 CHSAA). <\/p>\n
The Ravens buried four first-quarter treys, including two by Fuentes, and the 6-foot-7 Camara Ibrahima added five points as the hosts raced to a 21-11 lead after one.<\/p>\n
With the Eagles struggling offensively in the second quarter, St. Ray\u2019s rode the play of Fuentes to a comfortable halftime lead and never looked back.<\/p>\n
New Dorp 63, Port Richmond 33<\/p>\n
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 James Flores paced a balanced attack with 11 points and the Centrals built an early lead and cruised to the PSAL 3A division win over the visiting Raiders on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Omari Onwe added 10 points while Josh Carter, Sergio Batista and Vicenzo Fiorenza chipped in with nine markers apiece for the Centrals, who remained one game back of first-place Tottenville with a 5-1 record (6-3 overall). <\/p>\n
Andrew Lawrence and Mekhi Hines paced the Raiders with eight points apiece.<\/p>\n
New Dorp led 14-8 after one period when it tightened the clamps defensively to hold the visitors to three second-quarter points. <\/p>\n
Flores, meanwhile, tallied seven points \u2014 including his lone trey\u2014 to help give the hosts a 25-11 halftime lead they\u2019d never relinquish.<\/p>\n
Junior varsity<\/p>\n
Petrides 56, MSIT 42<\/p>\n
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Hamza Abuzahrieh finished with 18 points and eight rebounds and the Panthers took control with a defensive-fueled second period en route to the PSAL 1A division victory over the host Seagulls in New Dorp.<\/p>\n
Evan Duran (11 points), Deen Wyne (10 points) and Jack Palazzola (eight points) also contributed offensively for Petrides, which improved to 3-2 in league play.<\/p>\n
Adam Kaba scored a game-high 21 points and Harry Liu added eight for the Seagulls.<\/p>\n
Kaba\u2019s 11 first-quarter points helped the hosts take a 17-15 lead after one period, but the Panthers locked in defensively in the second and held MSIT to just two points. <\/p>\n
In the meantime, Wyne and Abuzahrieh teamed for 11 points as the Panthers took a 32-19 lead into the lockers and never looked back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2014 Senior Chris Albano buried a left-wing jumper just before overtime expired as Susan Wagner upended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-75620","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\/75620","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=75620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}