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No. 1 East Hampton has defeated third-seeded Haborfields, 75-52, in the Class A finals.
Mikey Russell led the Bonackers (20-1) with 18 points. Ben Resner led the Tornadoes (13-9) with 18 as well.
East Hampton will face the winner of the B/C/D final between Center Moriches and Port Jefferson on Friday at Stony Brook, 6:30 p.m.
Center Moriches will face Port Jefferson on Wednesday at Longwood High School.
Game time: 7:00pm.
Tonight’s Suffolk boy’s basketball playoff games at Stony Brook University were rescheduled. The Class A final between No. 1 East Hampton and No. 3 Harborfields will be played 4 p.m. tomorrow at Stony Brook University. Center Moriches and Port Jefferson will play in the B/C/D final Wednesday at a site and time to be determined.
Dan DiVietri had 16 points and 10 rebounds and Sean Wildes added 12 points and 12 boards as Chaminade (10-2) clinched first place in the CHSAA. The Flyers, picked to finish last in the preseason, will be the top seed in the CHSAA playoffs and have a bye into the semifinal next Sunday.
CHSAA QUARTERFINAL MATCHUPS
All games to be played Thursday at the higher seed's court.
(2) St. Dominic vs. (7) St. Mary's
(3) St. Anthony's vs. (6) St. John the Baptist
(4) Kellenberg vs. (5) Holy Trinity
- MARCUS HENRY
MARCUS HENRY -
The Nassau Boys Class AA Semifinal have been moved to SUNDAY.
(1) Uniondale vs. (4) Farmingdale @ SUNY Old-Westbury 4 p.m.
(2) Baldwin vs. (6) Port Washington @SUNY Old Westbury 7 p.m.
Suffolk County boys and girls basketball playoff games have been moved to SATURDAY.
Boys Class AA Quarterfinals
(8) Bellport @ (1) Half Hollow Hills West 1 p.m.
(5) Longwood @ (4) Brentwood Noon
(6) Lindenhurst @ (3) Bay Shore 1p.m.
(7) Copiague @ (2) Whitman 2 p.m.
Girls Class A Semifinals
(4) Shoreham-Wading-River @ (1) Glenn Noon
(2) Huntington vs. (2) Harborfields - @ Northport Noon
Class B Final
(1) Wyandanch vs. (2) Hampton Bays @ Center Moriches 4:30
Class C/D
Stony Brook vs. Shelter Island @ Center Moriches 2:30
1. Long Island Lutheran
2. Half Hollow Hills West
3. Jericho
4. Bay Shore
5. Whitman
6. East Hampton
7. Chaminade
8. Uniondale
9. Baldwin
10. St. Dominic
BY MARCUS HENRY
Sebastian Telfair (Lincoln, 2,785), Kenny Anderson (Archbishop Molloy, 2,621) and Kenny Wood (East Hampton, 2,613), New York State's top three all-time leading scorers, could have some company if Greenport junior Ryan Creighton has his way. Creighton eclipsed the 2,000-point plateau last week and has 2,033 on the season. With at least one more game (the Southeastern Class D Regional Final), Creighton should end the season north of 2,050 points.
Ironically, Creighton's coach, Al Edwards, is Greenport's all-time leading scorer with 2,117 points. Edwards is fifth all-time on Long Island behind Wood, Bobby Hodgson (Floyd, 2,532), Greg Cerillo Jr. (Faith Academy, 2,320) and Gary Williams (Bay Shore, 2,125).
BY MARCUS HENRY
The Long Island Lutheran boy's basketball team has every reason to keep their head up. Yes, they lost by 17 to St.Anthony (NJ), the No.1 team in USA Today's Super 25 Poll. But the Friars (22-0) haven't won by less than 20 points all season. In fact, only 5 of their wins were by less than 30 points. After the game coach Bob Hurley said it was the closest game they've had in a long time. He said he liked what the Crusaders did on offense and added they were an "excellent" team.
Make no mistake about it, though, the Friars are a great team. Six of their players are headed to Division I schools. And a seventh, Dominic Cheek, is a junior who is being recruited by North Carolina. You can't get much better than that.
"We couldn't hit our open shots," Lutheran coach Brian Carey said after the game. "But that team is quick."
Carey was right on the money with that assessment as the Crusaders strugged early. In fact, Jeriel Henriquez scored all of Lutheran's 11 points in the first quarter. Richie Harkins began to find his stroke in the second and third quarters.
There were no moral victories for Henriquez, but he did say a game like that could help the program's profile. "It would've been a great win," he said.
Lutheran proved a lot. It proved it could play with just about anyone. And the Crusaders also proved they aren't a group that gets intimidated.
Any who missed the game can catch it on the web at http://sportswebnet.com/ beginning 7 p.m. Friday night. It's a great opportunity to see Lutheran for the first time and St. Anthony. It's not often that Long Island gets the No.1 boy's team in the country to come here.
The Nassau playoff sked is pretty straightforward. No complaints from here:
AA
Today
(at higher seed)
(8) Great Neck South vs. (9) Bellmore-JFK, 6:30 p.m.
(5) Massapequa vs. (12) Hicksville, 7:00 p.m.
(6) Port Washington vs. (11) MacArthur, 6: 00 p.m.
(7) Hempstead vs. (10) Valley Stream Central, 4:30 p.m.
(Top seeded Uniondale, No. 2 Baldwin, No. 3 Elmont and No. 4 Farmingdale get byes.)
A
Fri., Feb. 15
(at higher seed)
(1) Jericho vs. (16) Plainedge, 7:00 p.m.
(8) Hewlett vs. (9) Roosevelt, 7:15 p.m.
(5) Westbury vs. (12) Northshore, 4:30 p.m.
(4) Island Trees vs. (13) Valley Stream South, 6:00 p.m.
(3) South Side vs. (14) Mineola, 7:30 p.m.
(6) West Hempstead vs. (11) Roslyn, 6:00 p.m.
(7) Great Neck North vs. (10) Lawrence, 6:30 p.m.
(15) Lynbrook vs. (2) Floral Park, 4:30 p.m.
B
Sat., Feb. 16
(at Old Westbury)
(1) Malverne vs. (4) Cold Spring Harbor, 6:00 p.m.
(3) Locust Valley vs. (2) Oyster Bay, 4:00 p.m.
C
Sat., Feb. 16
(at Old Westbury)
(2) East Rockaway vs. (1) Friends Academy, 2:00 p.m.
All right, I'll just come out and say it: I'm not convinced Hills West should be the top seed.
I know the Colts finished the regular season undefeated at 19-0 and are 13-0 in League IV. I also know that Tobias Harris is one of the best scorers on the Island. But I still think the No. 1 seed should've gone to Whitman.
Aside from last night's cataclysmic meltdown against Bay Shore (OK, perhaps that's a little drastic, but it was a pretty bad performance don't you think?), the Wildcats have faired well all season. And Hills West hasn't faced a team as tough as the Marauders.
But perhaps Hills West will prove me wrong.
(Something tells me they just might after reading this post.)
So here's the Suffolk Playoff Sked for your enjoyment:
AA
Tues. Feb. 19
(at higher seed)
(1) Hills West vs. (16) Connetquot, 6 p.m.
(9) East Islip vs. (8) Bellport, 6 p.m.
(5) Longwood vs. (12) Riverhead, 6 p.m
(4) Brentwood vs. (13) West Islip, 6 p.m.
(3) Bay Shore vs. (14) Smithtown East, 6 p.m.
(11) North Babylon vs. (6) Lindenhurst, 7 p.m.
(10) Deer Park vs. (7) Copiague, 5 p.m.
(15) Patchogue-Medford vs. (2) Whitman, 6 p.m.
A
Mon., Feb. 18
(at higher seed)
(5) Islip vs. (4) Miller Place, 5 p.m.
(3) Harborfields vs. (6) Amityville, 6 p.m.
(7) Huntington vs. (2) Glenn, 6 p.m.
(Top seed East Hampton has a bye.)
B
Mon., Feb. 18
(at higher seed)
(1) Southampton vs. (4) Babylon, 7 p.m.
(3) Center Moriches vs. (2) Bayport-Blue Point, 1 p.m.
C
Sat., Feb. 16
(at higher seed)
(1) Port Jefferson vs. (4) Pierson, 6:30 p.m.
(3) Southold vs. (2) Stony Brook, 6 p.m.
"Dominating performance" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Bay Shore all but embarrassed previously undefeated Whitman last night, winning 72-54, to clinch the League II co-championship with the Wildcats.
Whitman hardly resembled a team on the verge of a perfect season, entering the game 13-0 in the league and 17-0 overall. Flat, out of sync, careless and unfocused -- you name it, they looked it; a stark contrast to the way the Wildcats played the Marauders last month, winning by eight at home.
In what appeared to be a matter of seconds, Bay Shore went on a 14-0 to start the game (sparked by a Jordan Allen dunk and four consecutive three-pointers by Booker Hucks). Whitman looked re-energized after halftime, cutting the Marauders' nine-point halftime lead to just five. But Bay Shore responded in a hurry, expanding the lead to 20 in the fourth.
I'm scared to think what the score would have been had Bay Shore converted its foul shots. The team went 19-of-42 (!!!!!!!) from the line. Coach Navro Robinson admitted it's been an issue all season.
"Guys really don't concentrate like they should at the line, but they're going to get better at it," he said after the game.
Let's hope so.
Though Robinson added, "Anytime you can win a league title it's good for the season, it's good for the kids, it's great for the program," several of his players said the win was about more than just that.
This game was about respect.
Both Hucks (who finished with 30 points and six three-pointers) and guard Barry Ingram said they felt Whitman had acted as if it already had the game locked. Apparently, Bay Shore was offended by comments Whitman seniors had made in a recent HS Boys Basketball Insider about going undefeated and winning the league championship their senior year. Hucks and Ingram said that kind of talk gave them even more of an incentive to "take care of business" Wednesday night.
Read the Insider and decide for yourself. I wrote the article and still don't see how they could have gotten that impression. But either way, the extra motivation worked in their favor and now the Marauders will ride the momentum into Tuesday's playoff match-up with Sachem East.
BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI
Amityville’s non-league home game against St. Anthony’s on Feb. 8 has been rescheduled according to Amityville coach Jack Agostino. The game will be played on Feb. 16 at 6:00 p.m. at Amityville. Former Amityville and Villanova standout Jason Fraser will have his jersey retired that night. He will join Mike James and Shelton Jones as the only players to receive the honor.
SUFFOLK
Fri., Feb. 8
East Islip at Copiague, 4 p.m.
Who's the best team in Suffolk League III?
Southampton at Center Moriches, 7:15 p.m.
No League VII team has beaten the Mariners yet.
Hills West at Deer Park, 6 p.m.
Hills West is still undefeated, but Deer Park only lost by six when they played two weeks ago.
NASSAU
Wed., Feb. 6
St. Dominic at Chaminade, 4 p.m.
The Flyers have already beaten St. Dominic this season. Can they do it again?
Uniondale at Hempstead, 4:30 p.m.
The Knights topped their rivals last month.
Fri., Feb. 8
Malverne at Jericho, 7 p.m.
The Mules were routed by 31 the last time these two teams squared off.
1. Whitman
2. Long Island Lutheran
3. Hills West
4. Jericho
5. Uniondale
6. Baldwin
7. Bay Shore
8. East Hampton
9. St. Dominic
10. Chaminade
Here are some N-Zone highlights from:
Roslyn's win over Valley Stream South
Uniondale's win over Baldwin
