Good Knights: OCC Men’s Basketball Coach Erik Saroney (left) and Henninger High Boys Basketball Coach Gil Spaights had a mini reunion at the Peppino’s Tournament on Saturday evening before the Henninger v. Horseheads contest at OCC. Both men are in their inaugural seasons. Spaights was an assistant coach when Sarnony was at Henninger.
Horseheads High’s Brewster Marshall jumps with Henninger’s Kevon Linder to start overtime of the second to last game tonight (Peppino’s Tournament). Horseheads won in overtime 73-70.
Jamesville-Dewitt’s Evan Dourdas (circa 2014)
Jamesville-Dewitt and Bishop Ludden will be two of the high school boys teams participating in this weekend’s Peppino’s Invitation Tournament. This year the venue is Onondaga Community College.
Bishop Ludden’s Mika Adams-Woods (circa 2015)
CBA athletic director and basketball coach Buddy Wleklinski will be inducted into the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame later this month. He is pictured here from a Peppino’s Tournament at Henninger High.
Lutz from way downtown in the third quarter.
Christian Brothers Academy came up with two wins at the Peppino’s Invitational. They defeated Liverpool last night 60-56 on the strength of Charles Pride’s double double (15 and 10) and Mark Lutz’s 23, including two key three pointers in the second half. We look forward to the CBA Bishop Ludden match up (aka the city’s Holy War) on January 16.
Charles Pride took flight in the third quarter.
The sharp shooter
After a sluggish first quarter in the game versus Liverpool, CBA (and their motion offense) looked to be in mid-season form.
CBA senior point guard Nick Aversa suffered a scratch to the face during a heated second half run against Liverpool last night. The Brothers won 60-56.
Here are two great moves by Syracuse Academy of Science (SAS) forward Jesse Murray in the team’s quarterfinal sectional win over The Institute of Technology Syracuse Central earlier this week. The game was played in the SAS gym, aka, the Lab.
The final score was 73-59, including a 29-point second quarter for SAS.
Murray finished with 24 points.
SAS will play Sherburne-Earlville on Sunday.
Syracuse Academy of Science (SAS) Coach Onur Gokce tries to calm a player after a technical foul call in the first half of last night’s game versus ITC.
Syracuse Academy of Science (SAS) defeated Institute of Technology Syracuse Central (ITC) last night in a Sectionals match up played at the Lab (Park Street). ITC raced out to a big lead in the first quarter, but SAS, with big-time support from their home crowd, made a furious comeback and pulled away in the third quarter. The final score was 73-59.
By the fourth quarter the game was out of reach and Coach Gokce went down the bench searching for high fives from his players.
Young Cheerleader, CBA
Westhill Forward Tyler Reynolds goes for two of his game-high 23 points.
There was a lot of hype for the Westhill v. CBA matchup last night,but it was Westhill who quickly seized control and went up by double digits in the first quarter. Jordan Roland and Tyler Reynolds led the Westhill attack with 16 and 23 respectively. Westhill won 65-51.
CBA was led by Dan Damico with 15 and there were some timely buckets by Monte Stroman and Charles Pride, but Westhill essentially dominated this Section III matchup from the opening tip.
CBA guard Monte Stroman hit three-three pointers but tried to take the ball to the bucket more in the second half.
Jordan Roland finished with 16.