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Daily Sports Digest: ETB Falls To Suffern in Section Finals

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The Top Spot:

Top seeded Suffern won their third straight section championship as they beat second seeded Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville 6-1.

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Senior Willie Sanchez led the Mounties with four goals in the victory as Steve Scholer and John Costa each scored once. Tyler Stark made 18 saves in the victory.

ETB’s Mark Luciano picked up the team’s only goal off of an Ian Palfrey assist and Lucas Berger had 20 saves in the loss.

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Suffern will take on Section 9’s Monroe-Woodbury on Saturday Mar. 3 at 6 p.m. at Sport-O-Rama in the New York State Quarterfinals.

 

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Ice Hockey Section Semifinals Division 2 (Friday)

Game: (8) Scarsdale vs. (4) Rye

Score: Scarsdale Won 6-4

Highlights: Scarsdale continued their Cinderella Story as the Raiders advanced to the section title after battling back in the third period against fourth seeded Rye 6-4.

Scarsdale picked up four goals in the third to score the upset win.

Freshman James Nicholas led the Raiders with two goals and an assist as Devon Schell found the back of the net twice and Hunter Jurman and Stuart Hindmarch scored once each.

Michael Benincasa, Ryan Rogers, Griffin Tutun and Jack O’Brien all scored for the Garnets in the loss.

Connor Wolfe had 24 saves in the win and Rye’s Aidan Taigo had 27 saves in the loss.

 

Sport: Ice Hockey Section Semifinals Division 2 (Friday)

Game: (3) John Jay (CR) vs. (2) Pelham

Score: Pelham Won 4-0

Highlights: Pelham’s goaltender Josh Borofsky led the Pelicans into the section finals as he pitched a shutout and collected 15 saves in the win. Senior Danny Shea led the Pelican offense with a pair of goals and two assists in the win and Colin Reilly scored once and had three assists for Pelham. Will Cullen also scored in the Pelican Victory.

John Jay’s Matt Lanza had 30 saves in the loss.

 

Sport: Boys Winter Track and Field (Friday)

Game: Section 1 State Qualifier

Score: Full Results

Bronxville Highlights: Thomas Hudson finished third in the boys high jump with a mark of 6-00.00.

Eastchester Highlights: Jon Atkin finished a close second in the boys 300 meter dash with a time of 34.94.

 

Sport: Girls Winter Track and Field (Friday)

Game: Section 1 State Qualifier

Score: Full Results

Bronxville Highlights: Mary Cain finished first in the 1500 meter run with a time of 4:32.11, Cain came in nearly ten seconds before second place finished Delphi Cleaveland. Meredith Rizzo finished in second in the girls 1000 meter run.

Eastchester Highlights: Rachel Berk finished sixth in the girls 55 meter dash, and eighth in the 300 meter dash.

 

Sport: Ice Hockey Section Finals Division 2

Game: (2) Pelham vs. (8) Scarsdale

Score: Pelham Won 3-2

Highlights: Pelham’s Andrew Schauer ended the Scarsdale Cinderella story when he snuck in the game winning goal with minutes left in the third period, Schauer also assisted an earlier goal. Colin Reilly and Garrett Martin also scored for Pelham in the victory.

Josh Borofsky saved 19 shots in the win.

Jake Bank and James Nicholas each scored for Scarsdale in the loss and Conner Wolfe had 23 saves in goal.

Pelham will play Saturday Mar. 10 at 3:15 p.m. against either the Section 5 or Section 6 champion. The game will be played in Utica, New York.

 

Today’s Schedule:

In boys basketball, (6) Keio and (2) Children’s Village will face off at the Westchester County Center in the Class C semifinals at 4:30 p.m.

In boys basketball, (4) Haldane will square off with (1) Tuckahoe at the Westchester County Center in the Class C semifinals at 6:15 p.m.

 

College Sports Notebook:

The waiting game

Junior Mike Abelard of Spring Valley and sophomore George Erazo of North Babylon have done their bit, but now the St. Thomas Aquinas College track standouts can only wait to see how many athletes will be taken by the national committee to the NCAA Division II track and field national championships in Mankato, MN, on March 9-10.

Erazo and Abelard have hit the qualifying times for nationals, according to head coach Lorne Marcus.

Erazo competed in a very competitive field at the Armory Collegiate Challenge in upper Manhattan, and finished third overall in the 400 with a time of 48.65. 

Erazo also was the top collegiate runner at the Last Chance Collegiate challenge at the Armory. 

Abelard, a graduate of Ramapo HS, was competing in his third meet back from injury and ran a 22.67 in the 200 to finish 11th overall. 

Junior Garvenchy Nicolas of Midwood hit an indoor personal best in the 800 with a time of 2:00.40, which took 13th overall.

 

Mortarboard musings

  • Marist College junior Matt Panebianco of Tappan finished seventh in the 800 with a time of 1:56.34 at the Last Chance Collegiate challenge at the Armory in upper Manhattan.
  • The Manhattan College women’s basketball clinched a top-four seed in the upcoming MAAC Tournament with a 50-40 victory over Canisius in Buffalo. Maggie Blair of Briarcliff played nine minutes, getting two steals, an assist and one rebound for the Jaspers (16-13, 10-7 MAAC). 
  • The College of Brockport, an elite DIII baseball program, swept Purchase College, 7-5, 7-0, in a season-opening doubleheader for both schools at Silver Lake Park in West Harrison. Third baseman Kevin McQuade of Mamaroneck went 0-for-2 in the opener as a third baseman, and was touched for the loss in relief after the Panthers led 4-3. Mike Marrone of Pleasantville went 0-for-1 in each game, while catcher Frank Fiumara of Port Chester went 0-for-3 in the second game.
  • The Nyack College baseball team, which took two games from St. Thomas Aquinas College at Provident Bank Park in Pomona to open the season, meets Bloomfield (NJ) College at 3 p.m. on Thursday in Newark, NJ. Senior right-hander Kevin Earlie of Moriches went the distance in the first game, allowing only three hits. Freshman righty Craig Jacobs of Hawthorne, NJ, earned his first collegiate victory after four innings of scoreless work in the second game.

 

Weekly Sports Poll:

Major League Baseball lost a great earlier this month, former Met and Expo Gary Carter.

Two decades years after he retired, Carter was elected into the baseball Hall of Fame and many consider him one of the best catchers of all time.

But where do you think “Kid” ranks among the best New York back stops of all time?

Let us know your thoughts below in this week's sports poll.

 

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