Cross-Section of the Best of the Section:
A Long Delayed Recap of the Section 2 Season
Keep in mind that this Hoop blog is written by the parent of a CCHS player, not pretending to be an objective journalist, though very much an enthused fan of the high school game. Note that the opinions reflected here during the next winter or two, are indeed highly subjective, and are solely my own.
Now that Miles is a junior, I find that I know a large percentage of the players on the varsity level from watching 8 or 9 years of nearly year-round competitive play in the Capital District, through Rec ball, CDYBL ball, Travel leagues, AAU hoop (locally, regionally, nationally), CYO (2 years when Miles attended St. Gregory’s), hoop camps, summer leagues, Y ball, playground ball, the whole gamut of local basketball possibilities. Of course, I watched a ton of JV and varsity games in Section 2 during the regular seasons of the past decade as well, and then Sectionals, Regionals, State Championships and a few Federation games each year too. I can say I’ve seen most if not all of the truly talented gym rats in the area. But of course every year there are new ones emerging onto the scene, or coming into their own… But back to the hoop re-cap… Note that I’m not trying to blog here... this column will be in retrospect this year, once it’s all done for us. Scores and summaries can be verified on the High School Basketball page of the Times Union online edition, in case you don’t already check that. Many of the stats and totals are not to be taken as gospel, but the game scores and summaries are usually right.
Be Careful What you Wish For Department—
“You Want Competition, We Got Competition…”
RUNNNG THE GAUNTLET, OF THE BEST OPPONENTS…
Before I even get into the meat of the story of the ‘08-09 season, let me tick off some names of the competition my son Miles and his team had to face this year. When you go through a varsity season as part of the area’s toughest league—the Big Ten— that’s 16 league games right there—then play 3 more times (more than anyone else had to face them) against the eventual AA Finalists and Number 2 ranked team in the State, Albany Academy—that means 19 of your 21 games were against some of the nastiest competition to be found in upstate NY, north of Westchester County. So when people look at the record of 4-12 in the league, and 5-16 overall… they don’t know what went into it, and how tough it was, on a team wracked with a key defection of its best player, a host of injuries and badly-timed illnesses. Such was the season as CCHS of Troy, finishing tied for 7th place in the 9-team Big Ten.
Someone said in a T-U blog recently that there were important lessons in losing, and as CCHS parents we saw our boys go through more than their share of that, but there were also a lot of high moments of exhilaration as well, and some moments that gave us hope for next year—some good losses and some bad wins—and some losses that could have been easily turned around… if things had broken differently. If you have time for a few stories, I have held back so far this year and I have some things to say.
I read the local blogs but have not participated so far, except for one brief comment early in the year, and would rather use this forum to point out my subjective views on the hoop world, as an opinionated parent, rather than joining the shrill and sometimes surly T-U blog commentary—as entertaining as it is. I agree with a lot of the off-the-cuff comments posted there, but I have seen most if not all of the best players in AA ball up close, so these opinions I offer are my own, and not second-hand.
CHECK THE CHANNEL 13 ALL-STARS LIST SO FAR… FOR STARTERS
By my quick count, there are something like 1100+ players listed in the Boy’s Basketball Section 2 yearbook. Roughly 93 teams, with as few as 9 or as many as 16 players each—out of this year’s pool of varsity hoopers, Channel 13 has nobly taken on the task each year of trying to select the 10 best to be featured as the cream of the crop—their All-Star team.
As of this writing, there have been 8 guys named to the team—and Miles has competed against 7 of them, and has gone against 6 of them—all guards—directly, man-to-man, at one time or another. Let me name them, so you know what we’ve seen, on a regular basis, among CCHS opponents at guard:
*Taran Buie of Bishop Maginn
*Jamel Fields of Albany Academy
*Brian Hamor of Bishop Gibbons
*Bunduka Kargbo of Bishop Maginn
*Kam Ritter of CBA of Albany
*Derrick Millinghaus of Schenectady
The other two named so far are Jordan Stevens of Saratoga Springs—who Miles never got to play, either with or against—and Chris Pelcher, the gigantic center of Albany Academy, with who he clashed a few times, but was not matched up with directly. Stevens is someone I have written about any times in the past already, as have many others. Pelcher’s team is still alive in the Sectionals, so I will reserve judgment on him until the next piece I post. (By the time I finish this, it’s common knowledge that CBA has upset Albany Academy in the AA Finals, after a couple of overtime thrillers in the Semis, when CBA beat Shenendehowa in the opener and Albany Academy eked out a win over defending champion Bishop Maginn,
but I will give my impressions of that evening separately.)
I have no qualms about any of the above choices, they are legit. People who say the Big 10 is being heavily favored here are right—for good reason. Anyone who has only been to WAC or Wasaren or Foothills games or Colonial or Suburban Council games might want to claim favoritism—but if they saw the Big 10 week in and week out, they would begin to understand the difference. (I am including Academy in this category, since CCHS played them 3 times…did I mention that?)
NOTES ON THE TOP 3…
Taran Buie is far and away the most talented played in Section 2, though Jordan Stevens, as a heralded senior, was named first. I have seen Buie play every year since he was in fifth grade, and like Stevens, was always capable of besting kids a year or two ahead of him in AAU ball, and dominating kids his own age on any level.
He is not rated in the Top 40 of the Class of 2010 for nothing. The major college scouts—Paul Hewitt of Georgia Tech and Jim Boeheim of Syracuse last year, Mike Bray of Notre Dame most recently-- are rarely going to be taking the time to scout a kid unless the buzz is amazing—and I have heard that not only his brother’s team Penn State but perhaps Maryland and Kentucky are among the high-level contenders for this kid’s college career choice.
The differences between the two have to do with winning, which Buie has consistently done, and staying injury-free, which Buie has also accomplished. But there are other barometers—Buie just scores more efficiently, shoots a much higher percentage, and can do much more with the ball off the dribble than Stevens can. Jordan has likely dunked many more times than Buie has or will, and JS probably holds the white-boy scholastic record for upstate slams, if there was such a category—but Buie led his team to a State Double-AA Title as a Sophomore MVP last year, a feat that may not ever get replicated in Section 2 history. Young Mr. Stevens has had a million highlight reel moments of individual hoop fame, don’t get me wrong, but team success eluded him; enough said.
Jamel Fields, aside from my feelings about his histrionics and tactics on the court, is clearly third best, if not second, on this list. Given the competition he faced this year of a national nature—and the fact that his Albany Academy team in fact just won the semi-final game of the AA’s against Buie’s Maginn team… yes, I would now place him above Stevens on this list, in terms of game-proven talent. When he hit 14 points in a second quarter stretch of that game, I thought he m might’ve just swiped the best player mantle from Buie, who came on strong in the second half himself to end with 30 points to Fields’ 22. (The way that the game ended was a strange drama that will be the subject of another day’s writing—but we all know by now that Academy won.)
Fields is reputedly slated to go to Fairfield University starting in 2010, after a year of prep school. I suspect if he stays on track scholastically and emotionally he will do well there in hoop. His talent is undeniable; his frequent woofing and self-applause was unforgivable to me—until I read a piece by James Allen in the Times-Union (and still to be found on the T-U blog) which gave a lot of personal background info on young Jamel, and made me feel more empathetic toward him, and the Foster/Daigle family that took him in. Basketball has been a saving grace for Jamel Fields and Taran Buie both, and it likely has meant a lot more to their survival and success than to almost anyone else in the Section— at least among those who have made it to the top.
The only occasion I had to see the Saratoga team play this year in person was an unfortunate performance against Vestal of Section 3, an “A” team who rallied to beat Stevens’ team on their home floor in their start-up tourney of the season. Bad timing, if I was a scout. But I’d seen him in his early seasons, so I knew what he could do, what a phee-nom he was as an eighth-grader on varsity, and as a frosh—how confident he always looked. Until his climactic game of his stellar soph season, when Saratoga got badly whacked by Talor Battle’s Bishop Maginn team—down about 40 at halftime—Jordan had the swagger of the invincible. Then the air went out of the balloon a little, and after a heavy summer of AAU tournaments and showcases with
the Albany City Rocks, he was injured during much of his junior year. Trying to make up for lost time, perhaps, he was reputedly forced to shoot too much as a senior. His stock dropped among the D-1 coaches from Big East interest to the Patriot League, but there is nothing wrong with that—he will still play D-1 ball with a free ride at Holy Cross starting next year--a great academic institution, something less than a handful of kids each year from our area can claim.
Brian Hamor, star guard at Bishop Gibbons, MVP of the Section 2 A Finals last year as a junior, was once heavily leaning toward Bucknell of the Patriot League, and has since signed a Letter of Intent with Stonehill College, a D-2 school in eastern Massachusetts. He led Section 2 in scoring this year, edging out Stevens, on a team that gave him the green light to shoot, like Stevens, as much as he wanted to. He rebounded well for a guard, handled the ball well against the many presses the Big 10 can throw at you, and had some great moments passing the ball when so inclined as well. By virtue of the fact that he played 5 years of varsity in the Big 10, I would award him the fourth slot of the area’s best by a slight margin over Derrick Millinghaus—based mostly on Hamor being a senior, and maybe greater depth to his shooting range. But Millinghaus may have a brighter future still ahead.
Millinghaus is technically only a sophomore, but averaged close to 20 points a game on the season, as a lightning-quick, under-6 foot guard. His Mohawk haircut this year seemed to me to signify the fin of a shark, circling its prey, slashing toward the goal. Between Derrick and T. Buie and Jamel Fields it would be hard to pick who is the most elusive and deadly in making moves to the hoop out of all the Section 2 players I have seen.
Interestingly enough—in a Times Union article about him and his two brothers published just before the Sectionals started, it was mentioned that Derrick had reached double-figure scoring in “19 of his 20 games thus far”—but the article didn’t mention that the only game in which he didn’t, Catholic Central HS of Troy beat Schenectady High in their only real “signature win” of the season. (In that game, CCHS junior guard Keaton Woods was assigned to cover Millinghaus in a Box-&-one of the sort that Talor Battle used to face a lot in his days in the Big 10. That was also the game in which Keaton hit 16 and Miles hit 18, and their team as a whole shot about 68% from the field. I had to mention that, but I digress…). In my opinion, Millinghaus will probably lead the area in scoring next year, as Hamor did this year, and for the same reason—that his coach believes in him enough to give him the green light to create and shoot and dish and improvise at will. As with most of the potentially top-level teams, Schenectady is at its best when allowed to free-style, within reason, and Run. Derrick is at his best in that flow.
FOOTBALL MORE THAN HOOP TALENT?
The next player listed on Roger Wyland’s list is the only choice I would argue with. Although I agreed with Coach Hurley’s assertion last year during Maginn’s run to the State Title, that “Benny” Kargbo had earned himself a D-1 scholarship with that series of performances up at Glens Falls against some nasty competition, I don’t think he played as well overall this season. He will still go D-1, and as an athlete is tremendously buff and strong, but it will be on the gridiron, not the hardwood courts. In hoop his main claim to fame is on the defensive end, and though he is powerful on the drive, he does not have the fluidity or ballhandling skills (with both hands) of the guards mentioned above. I think Maginn deserved to have two players mentioned among the Top 10 in the area, but I like Trahson Burrell or Jerel Scott better as long-term hoop prospects than Bunduka, to be honest, though they are underclassmen and will have other chances for fame.
Still, I think the area experts who helped pick these 10 All-Stars were giving Kargbo some props for his great play at the end of last season, and that remains legit. He was still the starting point guard and defensive sparkplug on an area team that took the State Championship away from Mount Vernon or Niagara, and then gave Lincoln a tough game in the Federation semis. We will wish Mr. Kargbo well as he heads off to U. Buffalo in the fall.
Kameron Ritter of CBA is another Big 10 guard Miles had to contend with this year, and during several years in the past. He was described by one scout on Channel 13’s crew as “deceptively slippery” when he went to the hoop, which is true.
At 6’4” he was often taller than other guards he matched up with, and performed well as a defender and rebounder as a result of his long arms. He would often make driving shots from odd angles, as he proved in the recent CBA victory over Shen in the AA Semis on March 3rd in Albany. His outside shot is better than Kargbo’s but not as reliable as others on the above list, but his mid-range game is good, and he goes baseline as well as anyone.
(As I write this, the Finals game has now been concluded between Albany Academy and CBA, and seems to have been a statistical dead-heat match-up between Jamel Fields and Kam Ritter in that one, though the CBA team came out ahead.)
Consider this, then, now that you’ve pondered this list—
at two different stretches in the season, either Miles or Keaton had to face a series of match-ups with the following players: Jamel Fields, Taran Buie and Bunduka Kargbo, Kam Ritter, Derrick Millinghaus, and Brian Hamor… talk about running the gauntlet of local talent, which exists heavily at the guard spot, above all other positions. Our guys at CCHS were tested by fire this year, and will be stronger for it next time around.
Similarly, Kevin Wilkes, our lone big man who had to match-up against Chris Pelcher while giving up at least 5 inches and about 60 pounds, competed well in the only two games in which he saw action, being out with a fractured ankle in our ill-fated opening Sectional game against Academy. In the first match-up, Wilkes hit 20 by drawing Pelcher outside, hitting a couple, then driving by him on plays later in the game. Nobody in the press mentioned how well CCHS played in their second game against Albany Academy at their place, late in the season, when the Catholic High boys were actually ahead, 29-26 mid-way through the second quarter, via some deadly 3-point shooting led by Miles Perras, Shiva Senthil, Wilkes, and Denzel Paschal, who all had double-figures that night. That game was one of our more entertaining losses, a fast-paced affair with a mis-reported score in the papers and on the T-U site—it was 92-70 at the end, according to three books that were kept, including the home book at the table. It was called in as 92-67, and they only gave us credit for 11 3’s not the 12 all three of the books recorded. Not a big difference, but a detail that shows how interested that particular home team was in establishing a big point spread, perhaps to help boost their state ranking. Our highest scoring game, in fact, was that loss.
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WHO DIDN’T MAKE THE LIST, BUT WAS CLOSE?
As of this writing, only 8 of the 10 All-Stars had been named. Seven of those eight were AA players, with only Brian Hamor being from an “A” school, though Gibbons is in the Big 10 and has a very similar enrollment size to CCHS anyway.
(Note: by the time this was actually posted, the 9th and 10th players on the Channel 13 All-Stars list had been named— Matt Baldwin of Gloversville, and Keven Donahue of Hudson Falls—a Class A and a Class B player, respectively I was right about the first choice, way off on the second, as below.)
And other than Saratoga’s Jordan Stevens, all the players were either from the Big 10 or Academy. Rumor had it that Matt Baldwin of Gloversville, a very impressive shooting guard on a team playing in the “A” Finals, would be 9th on the list. I wish I had seen him play, and hope he continues on the next level—only heard good things about him. Then the very tough remaining pick for the 10th spot would have to be between 6’10” senior center Jim Janson of Scotia-Glenville (who will compete against Gloversville in the A Finals at Glens Falls), or high-scoring 6’3” guard from Shenendehowa, Matt Miner, who put on a show in the second half of the AA Sectional Semis, with 19 points after halftime in an overtime loss to CBA. Leaving either one of them off would not seem fair, as Janson is the second best big man in the area to Pelcher, and leader of the top-ranked A team in the Area this year, while Miner was leading scorer for the top-ranked Suburban team (21-2 overall), which was 4th best in the entire Section, in my opinion, and as the Sectionals played out.
Who else would have been considered as Honorable Mention? I’ll mention those we played against first—a sort of supplemental “All-Opponents” team:
Based on the way he played against CCHS, Andrew Stire of CBA (6’8” senior) certainly should have been considered. Long before he proved his worth in the Finals against the more-heralded and much bulkier Chris Pelcher, I thought this kid was the most under-rated player in the area, especially given how few exceptional big men were playing in AA ball. Even though he scored at will against our under-sized CCHS team this year, there were other games this year where he didn’t seem as efficient or proficient, according to the stats. But, he showed up when it counted, and I’d be surprised if he wasn’t playing at least D-2 ball somewhere next year. (Post-script note:
young Mr. Stire justified my belief in his talent by recently being named Section 2 AA Tourney MVP by reputedly out-playing Pelcher in the AA Finals, which would make one think, in retrospect, that he should have been on the Top 10 list all along…)
Also highly talented but sometimes inconsistent was senior Mark Blair of Schenectady High, a 6’5” leaper who threw down some nasty tip-slams this year. Likewise 6’6” wing forward Reece Jackson of the Patriots, a junior who was under the weather when we first played them, and who then killed us, along with Millinghaus when we played them at their place later on. Another kid, from Amsterdam High who not only played well in both games against us this season, but also last season, in going against ’08 All-Star Devin Grimes, was Phil Miskinis, a relentless inside scorer and fastbreak finisher who is only 6’2 or 6’3 but plays bigger.
Kevin Kost, a senior shooter from Guilderland, hit 28 points early in the year against CCHS, but didn’t hit 8 threes in a game except for that one time, just our luck. Jonathon Terry, an undersized but powerful center from that team, also had some all-star caliber moments this year.
Tyler Foster of Albany Academy was publicized pretty well this year by getting named as a McDonald’s All-American nominee, which I know was considered quite a stretch by many local observers. But he hit enough shots against our team to have me believing it.
Bishop Maginn had several possible candidates for this All-Star team when the season started (and when just about any season starts)—but I’ve already mentioned Trahson Burrell and Jerel Scott—and I would add a nod to James Torres for the fact that he played Chris Pelcher tougher than anyone in the Section in the Semi-Final classic at the T-U Center, before unfortunately fouling out. Along with the above-mentioned Jon Terry of Guilderland, these two guys are about as powerful as you can imagine a 6’2 high school hoop player being.
There are m any other players I could mention, but I will conclude with a few others I have actually seen my kid compete against-- Haneef Scott of Lansingburgh, whom we scrimmaged against before the season started—a very cool and efficient lead guard—scored 35 or 36 in a late-season game I read about—if his team could have gone further in the A Sectionals, he might’ve been on the above list too.
Nick Sarchiotto and Bilal Shabazz were senior leaders on a very good Bishop Gibbons team that always gave us trouble in the Big 10, though neither was as consistent as the Top 10 All-Stars needed to be to secure those spots.
For LaSalle Institute, two or three guys merit mention, maybe even four—this team was a mystery to me—very good talent, but like CCHS often the victim of injuries, foul trouble, defections or other bad luck. Their record in the Big 10 was
identical with that of CCHS—4 & 12—which proves you can lose with decent talent in that league.
Marquis Campbell (whom I always heard called Poppy when he was younger), always played well against Catholic High, and he looks to be improving from one year to the next. His running mate at guard, Mason Horne, played one great game against us and then was out with an injury when our Denzel Pascal hit a buzzer-beater 3 to end the season with an improbable win for CCHS in the reg season closer. Frankly, I had previously thought Horne had the chance to be one of the area’s 10 best, but there are too many good guards to go against in the Big 10 for that to have happened. Similarly, on another level, in any other league, 6’4” center Will Reutemann might’ve had a killer season, but in the Big 10 he was largely neutralized, except when he was whooping on us. Mike Murray – star junior quarterback for LaSalle’s AA Champs this past year, played valiantly on two banged up knees and sore ankles, but had his share of highlight moments on local sports channels this year in any case. He and Campbell will presumably lead the way for LaSalle again next year, while the other two graduate.
A team I saw play against Academy during the season was Colonie High—who many predicted to get through to the AA Sectional Semis—they had at least two players who could’ve been considered All-Star material in the pre-season, based on experience they had as underclassmen—Sean Peer and Herb Tedford. While Peer had many strong moments, Tedford had an injury-riddled season and never hit his true potential from what I saw in the stat sheets this year. Colonie’s best player in fact, from accounts I’d heard, was Kyle Mafrici, a senior guard who looked surprisingly confident against Academy halfway through the year. Next year, Mike Branche is likely to be the go-to guy,a strong junior this past season who probably didn’t get enough touches with a host of good seniors on the team.
Maybe I’ve given guys from these two other teams disproportionate attention in a story about Honorable Mentions in Section 2 Basketball—but there are a lot of guys who are really good, yet just under the All-Star radar—players who will make their all-league teams, and will be invited to the Exceptional Seniors games, but not the Top Ten.
I apologize to any players on Suburban teams such as Bethlehem, Mohonasen, Shaker, Columbia, Ballston Spa, Burnt Hills, or the Saratoga team: I just didn’t get to see any of your regular season games… if I had, I might have had to mention Kevin Wendth, Anthony Robustiano, Jordan Majeka, Janique Lanier, Steven King, Cody Robinson, Mark Seager, Zach Morton, or Alex King among those in the second tier of local talent.
Likewise, I hadn’t seen any B, CC/C, or D games this year. So I had no idea if there was another kid like Shea Bromirski of Cambridge last year, who not only surprised me by making the 2008 version of the Channel 13 All-Star team, but then proceeded to a hoop scholarship at Saint Rose of Albany’s (D-2) team this year, where he started a lot as a freshman. You don’t see many C school kids around here making that transition successfully-- especially 6’ point guards from, shall we say, non-urban schools. Congratulations to young Mr. Bromirski for making the grade, where more highly touted kids
sometimes do not.
A GLANCE AT THE CC & B SECTIONAL FINALS, 3/07/09
One interesting turn of events in our team’s season was that they had scrimmaged against Stillwater High, which went to the CC Finals this year as a surprisingly low 11-seed, against an outstanding Maple Hill squad that was ranked first, and proved why when I went to see them up in Glens Falls. Since I only report on the games I see, let me mention a few players who impressed me that night.
First of all, the Stillwater team was a scrappy bunch when we played them, lots of hustle and strength though without a lot of size. You could tell they were well-coached (by Dave Cook) and would keep coming hard, no matter what the score. Their two best players at the GFCC game were junior Justin Deuel, who hit 20 points with some great shooting, and senior leader Nick D’Alberto, who hit clutch shots to keep it close at the end, with 10. For Maple Hill, the kid who won the MVP for the tourney was named Trent Tibbets, who was by far their high point scorer on the season as a senior. He and another senior named Jamie Schultz, who drained 4 straight free throws at the end of the game to ice it, got most of the sports page ink the next day. Also noted on the Sectional team was junior big man Sean Danaher, who also played well. But as someone coming in cold and seeing the team play for the first time—the player whose game I liked the most was junior guard David Briggs, and not just because he was a blond kid who wore number 44, like my son. He moved well with and without the ball, hit a couple of beautiful threes when they were building their lead, and drove confidently without any turnovers. A lefthanded shooter, he and
Danaher, and another scorer named Chris Despart, will form a strong nucleus next year for the Wildcats I would think.
Another Saratoga County team was an underdog in the B Finals—a scuffling bunch of shooters like Stillwater—the 10th seed from Schuylerville, who had won close and contentious games over Hudson & Hudson Falls (high schools that are about 60-70 miles apart, for those of you outside the Capital District), and Cohoes High, who had knocked off B co-favorite Tamarac the round before.
B players from the above group of schools who could be considered for Sectional Honorable mentions: Keven Donahue of Hudson Falls—a 478 pt scorer this year as a senior; Steve King of Tamarac, a 6’5” senior shooting guard; and 6’4” inside scorer Nick Benoit for Cohoes High.
For Schuylerville, their star player early in the year was the confident quarterback Austin Bateman, an older junior. He hit 17 against us in their first game of the season, but did not look as fluid in Glens Falls, during the nightcap that Saturday, in the B Finals. Brad Lyon on the other hand shot well that night, a junior guard who formed part of an assertive trio in the backcourt for the Black Horses. Senior Claeton Corsetti looked to me to be the most aggressive player for Schuylerville, but he was not rewarded with playing time down the stretch—nor was Danny Irizary, who hit 3 nice threes against CCHS in that November game that seems so long ago now.
They were going against a strong Broadalbin-Perth team which I saw last summer in an AAU League, thinking they looked very strong at that time. Justin Boyles is a 6’6” center from that team whom I thought was a worthy Honorable Mention player, based on how he played against a real good City Rocks 16U B team. He had 13 when his team knocked off top-ranked Fonda, 46-41. And for that team, I’d probably be wrong if I failed to note that in many other seasons, a 1200+ point career scorer like Kevin Hanson of Fonda would probably have merited inclusion on Channel 13’s list—but this year there were too many Big School athletes who saw tougher competition ahead of him.
In the Final game, though I was sitting among the Schuylerville supporters, always out in full force at Glens Falls, I have to admit being impressed with Broadalbin’s performance. Early in the game, Shane Hathaway, a quick senior guard, took over and hit 4 shots in the first quarter, without a miss. When Boyles went out with 2 early fouls, Rob Norgard played strongman inside with a few blocks and a dozen rebounds, it seemed. Shooter Brian Blake, a junior, popped two impressive threes to begin the second half and set the tone for the rest of the game. As a whole, they played great, and their wicked defense gave the Black Horses no open shots either inside or out for the whole game.
I exited the Civic Center thinking I’d seen some decent, if not high-flying, basketball that night, and that Maple Hill and Broadalbin-Perth would both be worthy Section 2 representatives in the Regionals, and hopefully, the States.
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That’s it for now—I will shortly post an opinionated re-cap of the Sectional games I saw in more detail, especially the two great overtime games of March 3rd in the AA Semis. I will mention some of the unwritten stories about players who left
certain programs, and who will be the best of the returning juniors I’ve seen this year. I may also post some notes about the nature of the CCHS season we went through— stay tuned, and thanks for reading so far…
Copyright Wayne Perras 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009