Daily Sports Digest: Skokos, Calvano and Breit Win Section Finals

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.

While the team victory highlighted the weekend Nanuet had 17 individuals compete at very high levels. Four of the Golden Knights that competed finished the day in second place overall. Joe Dillion (99), Matt Dillon (138), Mike Buhlman (160), and Kevin Brundage (182) all fell in the section championship at Pace University.

Three Nanuet wrestlers did come home with a title.

At 106 Nanuet’s Vinny Skokos came into the tournament with the top seed and on Sunday he beat Ardsley’s second seeded Jonah Gerstel 16-0 for the championship.

At 120 Nanuet’s top seeded Anthony Calvano defeated second seeded DJ Frederich from Croton Harmon 9-3.

At 195 Dan Breit of the Golden Knights came in with the top seed and he pinned Croton Harmon’s Chris Kraft in 1:59 for the championship.

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Clarkstown North vs. Nanuet
Score: Nanuet Won 60-51

Highlights: Rob Tutein and Turee Jackson both led Nanuet with 16 points whils Chris Moynihan added 12 in the win. Brendan Hendrickson led Clarkstown North with 12 points in the loss.

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Albertus Magnus vs. North Rockland
Score: Albertus Magnus Won 50-45

Highlights: Tyler Sayre led the Falcons with 21 points as Pat McGuinness added 12 and Jack Sullivan tacked on 10 in the win. Tyrell Price and Malvin Rosario each had 14 points for North Rockland in the loss.

Sport: Girls Basketball (Friday)

Game: Albertus Magnus vs. North Rockland
Score: Albertus Magnus Won 66-60

Highlights: Maeve Parahus picked up 32 points for the Falcons as Ryan Doherty added 11 and Kelly Guarino tacked on ten for Albertus Magnus in the win. Olivia Burden led North Rockland with 18 points in the loss.

Today’s Schedule:

The Section 1 boys and girls basketball committees will meet to put together the playoff pairings at 9 a.m. today.

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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