Daily Sports Digest: Eastchester’s Cersarini Falls in Quarterfinals at Sectionals

The Top Spot:

Wrestling engulfed the local sports landscape over the weekend as the best athletes across the Hudson Valley took part in the Sectional Championships.

The two day tournament started off on Saturday with Division 1 competing at and Division 2 taking place at Croton-Harmon.

On Sunday matches for both Divisions 1 and 2 and several young local athletes competed for the individual championships. As for the team results, Fox Lane narrowly defeated North Rockland for the top spot 172-168.5 in Division 1 and Nanuet creamed the opposition in Division 2 scoring 277 points. Edgemont came in second with 236.

Eastchester’s AJ Cersarini competed at 220 pounds and was seeded seventh against Horace Greeley’s Billy Marino.

Cersarini beat Marino 15-12 in the opening round, but then the Eastchester junior was pinned by second seeded Tyler Lilly from New Rochelle in 3:47 in the quarterfinals.

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Boys Basketball (Saturday)

Game: Nyack vs. Bronxville
Score: Nyack Won 50-45

Sport: Girls Basketball (Saturday)

Game: Pawling vs. Bronxville
Score: Pawling Won 50-35

Highlights: Lauren Owens led Pawling in the win with 18 points and Erin Waters added nine. Grace Devlin led the Broncos in the loss with 18 points in the loss.

Sport: Ice Hockey (Saturday)

Game: ETB vs. Briarcliff
Score: ETB Won 6-1

Sport: Winter Track and Field 

Game: The Milrose Games at The Armory
Score: Full Results

Highlights: Bronxville’s Mary Cain finished in fourth in the New Balance High School Girl’s Mile with a time of 4:52.19. Cain only came in six second after first place Samantha Nadel from North Shore.

Today’s Schedule:

In High School Basketball, Section 1 will be announcing the boys and girls basketball playoff parings at 9 a.m.

College Sports Notebook:

Dominican sweeps Nyack on hardwood

KC Jentzen of Pearl River, LaShonda Hathorne of Queens, and Marley Klunk of York, PA, leading the women’s team, and Leon Porter of Laurel, MD, sparking the men’s team, helped Dominican College sweep a doubleheader against rival Nyack College in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contests on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg.

Jentzen and scored 10 points and pulled down seven rebounds, while Hathorne scored 13 points as the Lady Chargers defeated their counterparts from Nyack, 72-49, lifting their record to 11-10 overall and 10-4 in the CACC.

Klunk, who scored 10 points, had eight rebounds to share game-high honors with Nyack College’s Camille Nwosu of Centreville, VA.

The Dominican men’s team, which struggled against Nyack in a previous engagement before winning by three points, this time stamped its victory in 102-77 fashion behind Porter’s 26 points and five assists.

The win elevated the Chargers’ record to 14-7 all told, and 7-6 in conference play, while Nyack remained winless including 0-13 in the conference.

Preston Smith of Mays Landing, NJ, had a team-high seven assists.

Bonnies clinch first-round bye

Junior Alaina Walker of Pomona pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds, and spearheaded another strong defensive effort as the St. Bonaventure University women’s basketball team overcame a 15-point deficit to defeat the University of Dayton, 56-55, in an Atlantic 10 Conference game at Dayton, OH.

Walker, a graduate of Albertus Magnus, added four points and an assist in the winning effort.

Senior Megan Van Tatenhove of Sheboygan Falls, WI, scored a game-high 17 points for the Bonnies (16-6, 8-2 A-10), who grabbed a stranglehold of the conference at 11-0 while extending a program-best 13-game winning streak that lifted its overall mark to a glittering 24-2.

The victory also clinched a first-round bye (top four teams) at the A-10 Championship next month.

The game was a match up of the league's best offense (Dayton, 72.2 points per game) and second-best defense (St. Bonaventure, 54.3 points per game) – a battle which the Bonnies won by holding Dayton to its lowest scoring output in its 10 A-10 games.

St. Bonaventure returns home to the Reilly Center to face Xavier on Saturday (Feb. 18) as part of Homecoming Weekend. The game will be broadcast nationally by CBS Sports Network and is the first game of a doubleheader with the men’s team. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m. from Bob Lanier Court.

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