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Wrestling dominated the Super sports weekend as teams from all over met up for the divisional tournament at Mahopac, Horace Greeley, Arlington or Harrison. Rye competed in Division 1 at Harrison.  

The Garnets did not have the best showing of the season but two wrestlers did manage to make some noise.

At 170 Joe Simolacaj defeated Fox Lane’s Chris Manjuck 8-2 for third place in the tournament. Rye’s Jeff Dempsey fell 12-3 to Mamaroneck’s Luka Pavicic in the third place match at 145.

The top four spots in each weight class in each division will head to sectionals next weekend.

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Rye vs. Fox Lane

Score: Fox Lane Won 63-43

Highlights: Fox Lane came out strong as they ended the first quarter with a 20-6 lead. Ben Korren and Robbie Shilstone each led the Foxes with 11 points. Max Twyman led all scorers with 18 points in the loss.

Sport: Girls Basketball (Friday)

Game: Rye vs. Fox Lane

Score: Rye Won 51-43

Highlights: Rachel Egan led the Garnets with 25 points and Grace Leishman picked up 14 as Rye got the win. Allison Lombardi picked up 19 points in the loss.

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Keio vs. Blind Brook

Score: Blind Brook Won 60-29

Highlights: Blind Brook’s Jack Jamikowski had 19 points for the Trojans in the easy victory. Fumiakai Kobayashi and Shimpei Konto each had 10 points in the loss.

Sport: Girls Basketball (Friday)

Game: Keio vs. Blind Brook

Score: Blind Brook Won 50-30

Highlights: Ali Silfen had a gargantuan game for Blind Brook as she nearly outscored Keio by herself with 24 points. Sae Toyomura had 11 points for Keio.

Today’s Schedule:

In boys basketball, Rye heads to Horace Greeley at 6:15 p.m.

In ice hockey, Rye and Rye Town/Harrison will square off at Playland at 6:45 p.m.  

In girls basketball, Fox Lane will head to Blind Brook at 6:15 p.m.

College Sports Notebook:

Bearcats snap slide, point to Red Storm

Sean Kilpatrick of White Plains, who leads the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team with 15.4 points per game, poured in 16 as the Bearcats pulled away from DePaul to post a 74-66 Big East Conference win at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati.

Dion Dixon of Chicago also had 16 points for the Bearcats (16-7, 6-4), who ended a three-game losing streak before meeting St. John’s (10-13, 4-7) at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPNU.

Mistake-prone DePaul committed 18 turnovers, helping Cincinnati enjoy a 22-10 advantage in points off turnovers.

The Bearcats, the Big East leaders in 3-point field goals going into the game, missed their first eight before Kilpatrick, who also had four assists, connected with seven seconds left in the first half to cut DePaul's halftime lead to 38-36. They went 3-of -15 on 3-pointers for the game.

Mavericks succeed on alumni day

Senior forward Talia Beaulieu of Waldorf, MD, hit the game-winning shot with just two seconds remaining as the Mercy College women’s basketball team beat NYIT, 75-74, in Dobbs Ferry to notch its second East Coast Conference (ECC) victory of the season.

The Mavericks (2-18, 2-9 ECC) hope to build up some steam when they host Dominican College (9-10, 9-4) tonight at 5:30 p.m.

Aysha Williams of New Rochelle had nine points, four rebounds, four steals and two assists in 22 minutes against NYIT, while Jessica Biggs of Nanuet saw only nine minutes of action, contributing two steals and a defensive rebound.

Nyack rallies, falls short

Four Warriors posted double figures in scoring as the Nyack College men’s basketball team put up a valiant effort before bowing to Chestnut Hill College, 81-76, in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference contest in Philadelphia, PA.

Freshman guard Chris Hampton of Brooklyn led the way for Nyack with 21 points, a team-high seven assists and a team-high six rebounds.         

Sophomore Jose Pena-Benjamin of Rahway, NJ, scored 18 points with a team-high three steals, while freshman Khalid Samuels of Mount Vernon followed his career high in scoring against Bloomfield with a 17-point performance.

Senior forward Lafayette Curtis of Staten Island had 13 points and two blocked shots in the losing effort.

Nyack goes back to the well tonight in Wilmington, DE, to battle Goldey-Beacom College (11-8) at 7 p.m.

Bears are golden

Junior guard Damon Alston of New Britain, CT, scored a career high 21 points, and sophomore center Dennis Rinaldi of Harrison had 10  to lead the Western New England men’s basketball team to an 83-74 victory over Endicott in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) contest at Beverly, MA.
This was the highest scoring total of the season for Western New England, which had four players in double figures and ended a three-game skid while raising its record to 7-13 overall and 4-10 in the conference.

Endicott (12-8, 7-6 CCC) led 41-36 at halftime and held an eight-point advantage at 58-50 before the Golden Bears turned it around.

WNEU hosts Springfield College (13-6) tonight at 7 p.m.

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