STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Tottenville won the battle of PSAL 4A Conference powers versus Murry Bergtraum Saturday, posting a 63-49 home win behind the performances of Brianna Ardolic (18 points, seven rebounds and two steals) and Gabriella Ortiz (16 points).<\/p>\n
\u201cMurry Bergtraum is a tough team,\u201d said Pirates head coach Jessica Althoff, whose squad improved to 8-0 in the league and 11-2 overall. \u201cLike us, they press the entire game and are physical in the paint and rebound the ball well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bergtraum of Manhattan fell to 8-2 in the league. The Lady Blazers lost to unbeaten Thurgood Marshall earlier this season.<\/p>\n
Grace Anderson and Araya Lichtman broke the press well and looked down the court for Ardolic and Ortiz.<\/p>\n
Anderson finished with 10 points, six steals, eight rebounds and six assists, while Lichtman also had 10 points, five assists and three steals. <\/p>\n
\u201c(Anderson) was all over the court today doing the other stuff we needed her to do,\u201d said Althoff of her top player. \u201cGrace and Araya did a nice just pushing the ball and seeing down the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defensively, the Pirate defense rose to the occasion to keep a high-scoring offense in check.<\/p>\n
\u201cMurry Bergtraum pushed the ball; we needed to make adjustments and other girls stepped up well when we needed them to,\u201d Althoff said. \u201cI\u2019m proud of the girls — how they came out strong and played awesome well as a team. They moved the ball and waited for the right shots they didn\u2019t force shots we didn\u2019t need.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pirates have a full slate of games this week, starting with New Dorp at home Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Tottenville won the battle of PSAL 4A Conference powers versus Murry Bergtraum Saturday, posting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-96525","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\/96525","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=96525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}