STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island Academy rolled to a big 72-41 thrashing of Port Richmond in the McKee\/Staten Island Tech Christmas Showcase Friday afternoon at the Seagulls\u2019 New Dorp gymnasium. <\/p>\n
With the win, the Tigers upped their mark to a perfect 9-0 on the season, while the Raiders dropped to 1-10.<\/p>\n
Also in the same event, New Dorp toppled Grady, 69-58; MSIT downed Eagle Academy SI, 74-62, while CSI\/McCown dumped Petrides, 59-34.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s matchups will feature MSIT-Petrides (noon); CSIM-SIA (1:45) followed by Robeson-Port Richmond (3:30).<\/p>\n
SIA 72, PR 41<\/p>\n
Danny Nowak led the Tigers with 20 points, while Luke DeVito and Gabe Moschella added 16 and 15, respectively.<\/p>\n
A sluggish first quarter ended with the Raiders ahead, 9-6, as some cold shooting against Port Richmond\u2019s zone defense stalled the Tiger offense. SIA, however, would then use its defense in the second quarter to help fuel a 28-6 run to head into halftime with a comfortable 34-15 advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like our first quarter defense was bad,\u201d SIA head coach Mike Mazella offered. \u201cBut sometimes our 1-3-1 can ignite our offense, and it did again today, as we were able to score a bunch of points in transition in the second quarter. We were able to get several deflections and steals from our zone, and we did a solid job on the boards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shiv Thakkar would help spearhead the Tigerss stingy defense with some strong play in the middle of their zone.<\/p>\n
\u201cShiv stepped up in the second quarter and did a great job playing the passing lanes and defending their post players when needed,\u201d Mazella would add.<\/p>\n
DeVito would score 10 points in the second quarter, Mike Belkin added seven, and Ayden Howe chipped in with five in the period, as the Tigers made up for their slow start with conversions in the open court. <\/p>\n
In the second half, Nowak would be the beneficiary of SIA\u2019s transition game, as the senior guard tallied eight points in each of the final two stanzas. Moschella would toss in seven third quarter points, and John Elefterakis notched six in the final period. <\/p>\n
DyShawn Cartagena paced the Raiders with 16 points.<\/p>\n
New Dorp 69, Grady 58<\/p>\n
Senior Omari Onwe erupted for 29 points to lift the Centrals. <\/p>\n
Head coach Pat Hopkins\u2019 club also got solid efforts from Sergio Battista and Elijah Pizarro, who scored 15 and 14 points, respectively.<\/p>\n
The Central led throughout and got three three-pointers from Onwe and another pair from Pizarro in the win. They also shot it well from the stripe, converting 13 of 16 freebies.<\/p>\n
Joshua Carter chipped in with six for the winners, who moved to 8-4 on the season.<\/p>\n
MSIT 74, Eagle Academy SI 62<\/p>\n
The host club picked up its fourth win in a row spearheaded by a 25-8 second-period jaunt that put them in control.<\/p>\n
Senior guard Nizayah Jordan (16 points) banged down three triples in the period, while Ray Guerriero provided a spark off the bench with seven of his 12 markers in the stanza to spur the victory.<\/p>\n
Dalton Cherubin and William Slocum split 24 for coach Charlie Donohue\u2019s squad which moved to 6-5 on the campaign.<\/p>\n
Eagle jumped out to a hot start and led 25-20 after one on the back of Juneek Daniels\u2019 (game-high 18 points) eight points in the period. Justin Webley knocked down three three-pointers in the period as well for Eagle.<\/p>\n
Armani Perez finished with 16 for the Stapleton school (5-9 overall), while Javon Jordan chipped in with nine.<\/p>\n
CSIM 59, Petrides 39<\/p>\n
The Dragons got a complete-team effort as nine players entered the scoring column, highlighted by Xavier Farley\u2019s 18 points. Patrick Tucker was also in double-figures with 13, while Danny O\u2019Connor added eight for the 5-6 winners.<\/p>\n
Jaiden Brown pumped in a game-best 19 for the Panthers, who slipped to 2-8 on the season.<\/p>\n
CSIM registered just one field goal in the opening period of play, but still led 9-3 after the first eight minutes.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor\u2019s seven markers paved the way for a big second quarter and the Dragons hit the locker room with a comfortable 28-11 lead and never looked back.<\/p>\n
Farley corraled 16 boards in the win, while O\u2019Connor dished off seven helper\u2019s for head coach Danny Lee\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
Oakdale 64, Susan Wagner 55<\/p>\n
SALISBURY, Md. — The Falcons fought the good fight, but fell in the first round at the Governor\u2019s Challenge.<\/p>\n
Clevi Hoxha (four triples) led Danny Lanigan\u2019s squad with 18 points, while Darin Humes-James added 13. Charles Gambino and Chris Albano totaled nine and eight points, respectively, for the Sea View school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island Academy rolled to a big 72-41 thrashing of Port Richmond in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-82135","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\/82135","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=82135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}