1. Poly Prep (23-1)
2. George Washington (21-0)
3. Xaverian (21-2)
4. Tottenville (22-1)
5. All Hallows (17-9)
6. Grand St. Campus (18-3)
7. Xavier (15-9)
8. Lehman (17-4)
9. South Bronx (14-6)
10. Monsignor Farrell (16-4)
1. Tottenville (21-0)
2. Archbishop Molloy (18-0)
3. James Madison (18-2)
4. Moore Catholic (14-6)
5. St. Joseph by the Sea (15-2)
6. St. John Villa (11-8)
7. St. Francis Prep (12-4)
8. Construction (15-2)
9. Mary Louis (8-6)
10. Francis Lewis (15-2)
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Gary Ervin spent the early part of this week honoring coach Sid Jones. Monday the former Robeson and Arkansas guard spent two hours at J. Foster Phillips funeral home in Jamaica, Queens for Jones’ wake. Tuesday he was back on the court suiting up...
READING, Pa. -- Shaquille Davis was very much like the other 700 kids at Albright College for last week's Hoop Group's Elite Session 1. He was looking to catch the eye of a few college basketball coaches, gain Division I interest or a scholarship...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Terrence Samuel had a smile on his face over the final minutes of Tuesday’s Summer Classic East championship game. It was a content smirk, one of those this-is-too-good-to-be-true grins. Soon, the rest of his New Heights 16U... 12:05 AM
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Da’Shawn Suber pulled up at the 3-point line and instead of firing, he set up a cutting teammate for an easy layup. The next...
Team SCAN has been knocking at the door all summer. The 15U boys basketball squad has been to six championship games and four semifinals so far this...
It was do or die for Abyssinian over the weekend. The two Big Shots Atlantic Slam tournaments in Myrtle Beach, S.C., were the only ones scheduled for...
Justin Brownlee helped make a name for himself and St. John’s University for many different reasons last season. The 6-foot-7 forward was the team’s second leading scorer and rebounder in his final season as the program made a return to the NCAA...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Brian Bernardi’s stock has never been higher. Coming off an impressive week at Hoop Group’s Elite and Team Camps at Albright College, the Xaverian sharpshooter has become a hot commodity. He received his first high-major...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Attention AAU coaches and players: If the game is on the line, odds are Dayshon Smith is getting the ball. The odds are even greater the shot is going in. Just ask the New Jersey Cyclones. Smith’s top-of-the-key 3-pointer as...
LeBrent Walker was supposed to be the next big thing. His recruiting process coming into high school was similar to what most players go through...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Ryan Yearwood stepped onto the court last week at Albright College and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. There, just a few...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Teyvon Myers’ summer is already off to a better start than the winter, spring and fall. He played an integral role in New...
Alexa (Weazel) Dietrich thought her physical activity for the day was over. The Archbishop Molloy rising junior went for a run and was about to head into the shower when Joe Harnischfeger, the coach of the NYC Bulldogs 15U team, called. His squad...
There were prospects wall to wall. There was endless potential as far as the eyes could see. And that was just the food vendors at the Reading...
Brian Lissak’s summer plans didn’t include playing AAU basketball. His college plans didn’t include competing on a higher level than Division III....
READING, Pa. – At a time when upheaval surrounds him, Melvin Johnson is playing the best basketball of his life at the most important time of his young career. Rice High School, his home for three years, closed its doors for good June 31; he...
READING, Pa. – Dwayne Mitchell had options in picking his team for Hoop Group Elite Session I. He could’ve gone big or went after highly rated prospects. Instead, the former Rice coach and New York Gauchos coach chose familiarity, picking Tyler...
Kareem Canty isn’t in a rush to pick a school after all. After a lengthy meeting with Long Island Lightning director Dana Dingle, the 6-foot-1 Harlem...
Jeremy Hazell is completely healthy. It’s something he hasn’t been recently. Former Seton Hall star spent last season battling injury and even a gunshot wound, while trying to be the Pirates leader. Hazell, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard, broke a bone...
Manhattan's postseason success began and ended in Washington Heights. Nothing new there. Despite losing legendary coach Steve Mandl to alleged illegal recruiting, the Trojans won their third city title, topping defending champion Tottenville, 6-4,...
At this time last year, Kareem Canty was just starting to make a name for himself. After a solid AAU spring season, he began to draw interest from low-to-mid-major Division I programs and after flying under the radar at Bishop Loughlin, he was...
George Washington had several sources of motivation in last Saturday’s PSAL Class A championship game. There was suspended coach Steve Mandl sitting front row at MCU Park in Coney Island, a symbol of the Trojans’ inspiration. There was the...
Quinton Vega didn’t see high school team tennis in his future before attending Beacon. The area’s best prospects rarely play team tennis and it would cut into his training time. His mind abruptly changed upon arriving at the Upper West Side school...
In a world where sixth and seventh graders are being ranked by recruiting services and an eighth grader’s recruitment to a high school feels like a college process, Ashley Gomez took a much more modest path. She came into Murry Bergtraum three...
It was a banner year for Manhattan softball. Typically not one of the city’s power boroughs in the sport, Manhattan had three teams advance to the PSAL Class A second round – Environmental Studies, LaGuardia and Manhattan Center, which upset...
Amid boisterous chants of “32” – his jersey number – surrounded by his joyous players and assistant coaches and with tears in his eyes, Steve Mandl was finally at peace. The legendary George Washington baseball coach, suspended for alleged illegal...
Off the bat, Michael Sullivan was thinking double. He put his head down and sprinted for first base. As he made the turn around the bag, the George Washington fans along the first-base line erupted. The Trojans, suddenly full of life, came sprinting...
Nick Carbone can’t go to Disney Land quite yet. Before planning any ticker-tape parades or vacations, the George Washington interim coach has a...
This week should’ve been positive, about the showdown for the PSAL Class A city championship between forever powers Tottenville and George Washington. I touched on those subjects – from Tottenville ace Michael Sullivan and his scoreless postseason...
PSAL baseball beat writer, Zach Braziller, breaks down Saturday’s Class A championship game between George Washington and Tottenville at MCU Park in Coney Island. To follow The Post’s interactive live blog, click here. SCHEDULE 4 p.m. – No. 1...
Morgan Phillips is an atypical prospect. He attends Frederick Douglass Academy, a small Harlem school better known for its academics and which has had a baseball program for less than a decade. He hardly put up gaudy numbers in the PSAL, batting...
PSAL baseball beat writer Zach Braziller breaks down the top-seeded George Washington Trojans in advance of Saturday’s Class A championship game at MCU Park in Coney Island. George Washington Nickname: Trojans Head coach: Nick Carbone...
The seemingly never-ending saga of suspended George Washington baseball coach Steve Mandl’s fight to get back on the field has reached its breaking...
It was a city championship, but really it meant so much more for Regis and coach Alex Chan. The Raiders boys volleyball team defeated Iona Prep, 3-1,...
The good news for Xavier is that the Knights were getting runner after runner on base against All Hallows stud pitcher James Norwood. It was a far cry from the regular season when they saw the St. Louis-bound ace – Norwood no-hit them. The bad news...
Nick DiLeo has forged a reputation as one of the CHSAA’s best postseason pitchers and he proved why again Sunday afternoon, helping lift Xavier to a 3-2 win against Archbishop Molloy in the CHSAA Class AA baseball tournament at Iona Prep. The...
Bayard Faithfull never faulted Quinton Vega for missing last year’s Mayor’s Cup, the end-of-year tournament featuring the best Catholic, public and private-school teams in the city. Vega was playing in a USTA sectional tournament that was important...
The only visual reminder of Steve Mandl, the legendary George Washington baseball coach suspended for alleged illegal recruiting, at MCU Park in Coney Island was his white No. 32 jersey hanging in the Trojans dugout. But he was everywhere to his...
Nick Carbone compared Jariel Cedeno’s fighting spirit on the mound to that of a bulldog, which is ironic considering the George Washington senior right-hander is built like one – short and stocky. He’s heard about his weight often over the years,...
If the Philadelphia Belles 15U was a car, Jasmine Alston would be its second gear. The speedy, athletic point guard can turn a halfcourt game into a track meet with the dribble of a basketball. “If you want to change something up or make something... 1:40 AM
Ethan Telfair needed a game like this, running the show for the Long Island Lightning 16s, scoring and facilitating for his teammates. In the team’s 81-74 win over an excellent Grassroots Canada squad in the Hall of Fame National Invitational... 12:55 AM
READING, Pa. -- Shaquille Davis was very much like the other 700 kids at Albright College for last week's Hoop Group's Elite Session 1. He was looking to catch the eye of a few college basketball coaches, gain Division I interest or a scholarship...
Wayne Morgan is almost traveling as much this July as an AAU basketball player – only he’s actually the most sought-after football player in New York City for the Class of 2012. The Erasmus Hall defensive back landed Monday night from Beaverton,...
Gary Ervin spent the early part of this week honoring coach Sid Jones. Monday the former Robeson and Arkansas guard spent two hours at J. Foster Phillips funeral home in Jamaica, Queens for Jones’ wake. Tuesday he was back on the court suiting up...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Brian Bernardi’s stock has never been higher. Coming off an impressive week at Hoop Group’s Elite and Team Camps at Albright College, the Xaverian sharpshooter has become a hot commodity. He received his first high-major...
The criticisms against Kamari Murphy were endless. His transfer from Bishop Ford to Lincoln in December 2009 was met with outrage – against him and the PSAL, which allowed him to compete for the Railsplitters despite Ford’s allegation that he was...
READING, Pa. – More than 1,000 different kids took the court at Albright College this week for Hoop Group’s Elite Camp and Team Camp. The week of showcases during the first 10-day block of the live recruiting period drew coaches nationwide....
Over the next month, The Post will bring you into the world of South Shore/New Heights point guard Terrence Samuel as he travels from Indiana to Reading, Pa., to King of Prussia, Pa., Las Vegas and back to Reading during the live recruiting period....
READING, Pa. – Wesley Myers ticked off all the familiar faces he will miss, from Mike Taylor and Teyvon Myers to Antione Slaughter, Malik Nichols and Anthony Hemingway. He did so with a slight smile, not because the Boys & Girls rising junior point...
PHILADELPHIA – Kedar Edwards has been to three high schools in three different states. Now he’s in search of something a little steadier: a four-year college. The Brooklyn native and former Wingate star has impressed this week at the Reebok...
READING, Pa. – Jordan Dickerson has come a long way since arriving in Coney Island as the raw, unsure project he was just two years ago. The 7-foot center made the top 20 all-star game Friday at Hoop Group Elite Session 1, a four-day camp during...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Erica Juarbe turned a few heads this week at the Blue Chip USA Invitational at Penn State. In her first tournament of that magnitude on the travel circuit, the Lincoln rising senior forward quickly made a name for herself with...
READING, Pa. – Brian Bernardi is giving himself this one week at Albright College in front of college coaches – then he’s done traveling. The Xaverian shooting guard, who toured the AAU circuit for the first time last summer with the New York...
READING, Pa. – Malik Nichols to Hofstra was thought of as a perfect fit – the talented swingman who has dealt with so much hardship in his life ending up at a local program that was the first to recruit him and saw the southpaw as a star in the...
Born in Nigeria, a soccer star grows in Brooklyn. Yussuf Olajde doesn't play for one of the area's elite U.S. Soccer academy teams, and he has yet to step on the field for Sheepshead Bay High School, but the 16-year-old prodigy is considered...
It’s been a long time, but Andrew Gabriel feels like a rookie again. That’s because in many ways he is. The 22-year-old recent Manhattan College graduate is the new kid on the block at Nike Pro City, one of the youngest players on a veteran...
Jabari Peters is an atypical New York City basketball standout. He didn’t play AAU basketball until hooking up with New Heights just recently. He...
It was a reunion of sorts for Qwame Holder. After two years of being in the Red Bulls youth system, the Brooklyn resident finally got a chance to play at Red Bull Arena Tuesday night, but did so for visiting F.C. New York in a losing effort in the...
Sitting in a mostly empty locker room at Baruch College, his sweat-stained jersey draped over his shoulder, Andre Barrett solemnly shook his head. The former Rice and Seton Hall star was already dismayed with the Franchise’s (formerly Gold’s Gym)...
It wasn’t the path to professional basketball Kojo Mensah envisioned. The Brooklyn native struggled just to transfer from Siena to Duquesne after his sophomore season. Later that year, he was shot and he eventually decided to forgo his senior...
Gary Forbes’ team trailed by 14 points midway through the fourth quarter, the atmosphere in the gym had gone flat and nobody would’ve faulted the Denver Nuggets swingman if he packed it in, got ready for his first vacation in five years. Instead,...
The potential for an NBA lockout isn’t getting Brian Williams down. He is more than happy taking his game outside the United States instead of waiting and hoping for a call. “They said the lockout could last over six months,” the former University...
Eddie Owens has accomplished plenty of significant marks this year and throughout his career. But this weekend the Packer Collegiate star can claim a special and elusive honor. He will run the 3,000 meter steeplechase at the USATF Junior Nationals...
Growing up in Brooklyn, Edson Elcock had dreams of playing at Camp Nou with the likes of Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto’o and Thierry Henry. But those Barcelona dreams are now a Richmond reality. The speedy 26-year-old midfielder is a regular starter with...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Da’Shawn Suber pulled up at the 3-point line and instead of firing, he set up a cutting teammate for an easy layup. The next...
It was do or die for Abyssinian over the weekend. The two Big Shots Atlantic Slam tournaments in Myrtle Beach, S.C., were the only ones scheduled for...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Attention AAU coaches and players: If the game is on the line, odds are Dayshon Smith is getting the ball. The odds are even greater the shot is going in. Just ask the New Jersey Cyclones. Smith’s top-of-the-key 3-pointer as...
PHILADELPHIA – Jason Boswell is a silky smooth, 6-foot-7 wing who can finish inside with aplomb and knock down 3-pointers. Those are the immediate things that jump out when you watch the Bronx native play. But Tito Ortiz saw a different side of...
READING, Pa. – At a time when upheaval surrounds him, Melvin Johnson is playing the best basketball of his life at the most important time of his young career. Rice High School, his home for three years, closed its doors for good June 31; he...
READING, Pa. – Dwayne Mitchell had options in picking his team for Hoop Group Elite Session I. He could’ve gone big or went after highly rated prospects. Instead, the former Rice coach and New York Gauchos coach chose familiarity, picking Tyler...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Emonni Cropper had every intention of playing next year at Brooklyn Collegiate. Even though the star guard moved to The Bronx in January and was making a more-than-two-hour commute from there to Brooklyn every day, she was ready...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Every day when Joya McFarland sees Jeff Paige, her coach with the CAS Douglass Panthers, she asks him if she grew. To say the 5-foot-4 John F. Kennedy sharpshooter is preoccupied with her height would be an understatement....
It’s been a long time, but Andrew Gabriel feels like a rookie again. That’s because in many ways he is. The 22-year-old recent Manhattan College graduate is the new kid on the block at Nike Pro City, one of the youngest players on a veteran...
The recruiting process was unkind to Amdy Fall. It started with him being under-recruited and once the scholarships offers started to pile up following a breakout senior year at Wings Academy, they all went away when questions arose regarding his...
Leon Martinez’s career wasn’t being played under the brightest lights and on the biggest stages. The 5-foot-11 guard starred at Cardinal Spellman in...
Two years ago, Anthony (Africa) Pimble was hoping for an opportunity to play overseas. The Bronx native was trying to shed the label of just being a dunker and not someone who can thrive in organized basketball. Currently Pimble is embracing his...
Curtis Kelly is ready to move forward. He just isn’t sure where that is yet. The former Rice star is coming off a frustrating final season at Kansas State after a stellar junior campaign. He started the year in coach Frank Martin’s doghouse and was...
A father was arrested this morning after his star high school running back son was fatally stabbed in the Bronx just hours after his graduation when the pair fought with parking attendants they accused of stealing from their car, cops said. Andre...
Queensbridge had all the star power Tuesday night at Nike Pro City, from high-flying Ryan (Special FX) Williams to Steve Burtt Jr. and Ron (Metta World Peace) Artest. Primetime, however, had David Seagers. Advantage, Primetime. The little-known...
Anthony Bronzo thought his football career was behind him, that earning MVP of the 87th annual Turkey Bowl after leading Fordham Prep to a 17-7 win against rival Xavier on Thanksgiving Day was the fitting end of the road. Instead, The Post’s Bronx...
Starr Breedlove spent her high school career as a nomad, playing at three different schools over four seasons. The talented point guard’s journey will...
The potential for an NBA lockout isn’t getting Brian Williams down. He is more than happy taking his game outside the United States instead of waiting and hoping for a call. “They said the lockout could last over six months,” the former University...
The autograph seekers ran immediately over to Dwight Hardy after his game at Hoops in the Sun. During the contest Saturday afternoon, the famed streetball tournament’s announcers Uncle G Stacks and Bobby C expressed their disappointment to the...
The Bronx continued to live up to its reputation as baseball-rich, though there were no titles. There was no CHSAA champion in The Bronx, but All Hallows, led by ace James Norwood, had a memorable season, winning the Bronx/Manhattan division title...
The result was the same, but the creators couldn't have been more different. Abraham Ocasio is well known for great hands, propensity for catching touchdowns and is headed to college to play wide receiver. James Barry will be on the defensive side...
Abraham Ocasio has impressed from the first day of practices for the Empire Challenge with both his athletic ability and football IQ. “He is the real deal,” New York City and Fort Hamilton coach Danny Perez said. “All the coaches are talking about...
St. Raymond swingman Kerwin Okoro, one of the top rising seniors in New York City, has verbally committed to Iowa State, The Post has learned. Okoro, who took an unofficial visit to Ames in January, informed Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg Sunday...
Michael Marando grew up playing soccer and had every intention of competing at the college level. It turns out he was half right. Marando will be a Division I athlete next year at Fordham University, but he will be wearing pads and a helmet, not...
The CHSAA Archdiocesan girls basketball landscape will be getting a makeover next season. Cardinal Spellman and Maria Regina will join the five remaining CHSAA Staten Island teams, Spellman athletic director and coach Jane Morris told The Post....
Scott Machado visited Brazil when he was 8 years old and learned to speak the language growing up as his entire family spoke Portuguese. Good thing, too – the Iona College point guard will be prepared for the next two months as he tries out for the... 12:05 AM
If the Philadelphia Belles 15U was a car, Jasmine Alston would be its second gear. The speedy, athletic point guard can turn a halfcourt game into a track meet with the dribble of a basketball. “If you want to change something up or make something... 1:40 AM
Justin Brownlee helped make a name for himself and St. John’s University for many different reasons last season. The 6-foot-7 forward was the team’s second leading scorer and rebounder in his final season as the program made a return to the NCAA...
LeBrent Walker was supposed to be the next big thing. His recruiting process coming into high school was similar to what most players go through...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – Ryan Yearwood stepped onto the court last week at Albright College and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. There, just a few...
Alexa (Weazel) Dietrich thought her physical activity for the day was over. The Archbishop Molloy rising junior went for a run and was about to head into the shower when Joe Harnischfeger, the coach of the NYC Bulldogs 15U team, called. His squad...
READING, Pa. – Kyle Anderson, a 6-foot-9 point guard from New Jersey that many of the nation’s elite programs have coveted at one time or another, separates himself from the pack with his unique skill set for a prospect his size. He’s different in...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Elisabeth Gully and her game have undergone plenty of changes in the last eight months. Some jump right out. Others are more subtle, but not less important. “I had like a wave come over me and I was like I need to get myself...
It’s been a long time, but Andrew Gabriel feels like a rookie again. That’s because in many ways he is. The 22-year-old recent Manhattan College graduate is the new kid on the block at Nike Pro City, one of the youngest players on a veteran...
Julia Hannigan had the deck stacked against her as far as becoming a Division I women’s volleyball player. The St. Francis Prep grad was born without sight in her left eye. She’s never been exceptionally athletic or tall. And playing in New York...
Curtis Kelly is ready to move forward. He just isn’t sure where that is yet. The former Rice star is coming off a frustrating final season at Kansas State after a stellar junior campaign. He started the year in coach Frank Martin’s doghouse and was...
Leah Lipschitz knew she wanted to become a coach – a head coach, in particular – pretty early on. She came to really respect the profession after arriving at Boston University from Cardozo. “The value of having a really good coach is so strong from...
For the first time in his basketball-playing life, Tyrone Nash doesn’t know what comes next. The Queens native went from Lawrence Woodmere Academy to Northfield Mt. Hermon Prep to a four-year career at Notre Dame. The 6-foot-8 forward knows he’ll...
Steve Diaz wasn’t supposed to be the starting goalkeeper for F.C. New York Friday night. But when Tim Melia, on loan from Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer, informed interim coach Paul Shaw he wasn’t going to arrive at Adelphi’s Motamed Field...
The autograph seekers ran immediately over to Dwight Hardy after his game at Hoops in the Sun. During the contest Saturday afternoon, the famed streetball tournament’s announcers Uncle G Stacks and Bobby C expressed their disappointment to the...
The Archbishop Molloy girls basketball parents are looking for answers from the school after varsity coach Tom Catalanotto was unceremoniously dismissed Friday. Many of them plan to got to school Monday in an attempt to get them. “We didn’t see...
Tom Catalanotto, who coached the Archbishop Molloy girls to a state basketball championship, has been let go by the school. Athletic director Mike McCleary made the dismissal official Friday afternoon. “The school has decided not to renew Tom’s...
The Bay Area will have a New York City feel to it this winter as one Queens point guard is headed to Golden State to play for a Brooklyn product. Hofstra star Charles Jenkins was taken in the second round (44th overall) of the NBA Draft by the...
Based on my Twitter timeline and Facebook home page, the entire New York City basketball community was glued to their TV sets, watching the NBA Draft. Everyone wanted to know when Kemba Walker and Charles Jenkins were going to be selected and by...
Carolyn Gallagher will be switching from sneakers to a pair of hiking boots this summer. The Archbishop Molloy rising junior played the spring portion of the AAU season with the NYC Lady Bulldogs, but will be putting the ball away for the majority...
The book is out on Terrel Hunt. The Christ the King standout is uber-athletic and extremely explosive. It’s a big reason why he’ll be going to Syracuse in the fall. But can he throw the football? “A lot of colleges overlooked me as an athlete...
Taron Fason doesn’t look like a fearsome middle linebacker. At 5-foot-10, 198 pounds, he looks more like an undersized corner. But looks, as Fason has proven, can be deceiving. “I use a lot of techniques,” the St. Francis Prep senior said. “That...
The spring in Queens was about rebirth, programs like Archbishop Molloy and William Bryant enjoying postseason success, John Bowne winning its first title in over 40 years and St. Francis Prep and Cardozo continuing recent success. There were just...
Ahtyana Johnson has finally been able to enjoy the things she fought so hard to regain. Just six months ago she couldn’t partake in her passions of running and dancing. Life itself was a chore for the Benjamin Cardozo senior track standout. Back...
An all-boys Catholic high school since 1956, Monsignor McClancy will be a co-ed school beginning in the Fall of 2012, it was announced last month. But...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Taylor Robertson had a role at Moore Catholic -- one she played so well -- the last two seasons. The Mavericks had plenty of offensive talent in Taylor Baggs, Christina Rubin, Jessica Coscia and company. Robertson was there...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – The last few months have been a stroll down memory lane as well as a look into the future for Christina Rubin and Jamie O’Hare. The two Staten Island guards grew up playing together with the Staten Island Rebels travel team in...
READING, Pa. – Brian Bernardi is giving himself this one week at Albright College in front of college coaches – then he’s done traveling. The Xaverian shooting guard, who toured the AAU circuit for the first time last summer with the New York...
With a client list that includes David Wright, Jorge Posada and Scott Rolen, Seth and brother Sam Levinson are two of baseball’s biggest power brokers and Brooklyn-based ACES is one of the largest player agencies in the game. But the death of...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., – Kristen Olsen stormed onto the New York City girls basketball scene in the winter with 10 huge points to help lead St. Peter’s to a win against Moore Catholic for the Eagles 16th straight – and final – CHSAA Staten Island title...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – It’s been a different type of summer for Kelsey Carey. The St. Joseph Hill star center has become accustomed to being the biggest and tallest player on her team. That hasn’t been the case since she joined the NYC Heat travel...
Unlike last spring, the postseason was not a happy time on Staten Island. Defending champions St. Joseph by the Sea (CHSAA) and Tottenville (PSAL) experienced playoff heartbreak. The Pirates fell to George Washington in the PSAL Class A final...
Shaban Shatku is like a human Swiss Army knife, a fact that Shawn O’Connor is quickly finding out. So far during practice for the Empire Challenge all...
Staten Island continues to be New York City’s softball oasis – even in a supposed down year. Every senior except one on our first team will be playing the sport in college, most of them on scholarships. Tottenville got revenge on James Madison and...
The CHSAA Archdiocesan girls basketball landscape will be getting a makeover next season. Cardinal Spellman and Maria Regina will join the five remaining CHSAA Staten Island teams, Spellman athletic director and coach Jane Morris told The Post....
One had three hits, including the one that eventually scored the game-winning run in the PSAL Class A city championship. The other put forth an incredible pitching performance into the 10th inning. Two players that have met in three of the last...
It didn’t take long for Alex Salaycik to leave Felician College smiling. During an open gym workout this spring the Moore Catholic forward got her first compliment from Golden Falcons coach Steve Fagan. “He told me I locked down one of his best...
Alex Immella was finding out that golf wasn’t exactly a glamour sport for females at New Dorp. The coach was coming off a winless second season at the helm and had just a pair of victories in his first year. “I asked girls all the time [to play]...
Alvin Cornelius didn’t need time. He didn’t need official visits or trips to college camps. The Tottenville star wide receiver is loyal to a fault and that’s why Monday he verbally committed to play football at Syracuse in 2012, joining a long list...
Tom Tierney picked up the phone and was talking like any other night, like he hadn’t just lost his father, Tom Tierney Sr., the man he grew up idolizing and succeeding at Tottenville. There was no hint of despair or anguish in his voice, though it...
PSAL baseball beat writer Zach Braziller breaks down the third-seeded Tottenville Pirates in advance of Saturday’s Class A championship game at MCU Park in Coney Island. Tottenville Nickname: Pirates Head coach: Tom Tierney Jr. (12th year)...
PSAL baseball beat writer, Zach Braziller, breaks down Saturday’s Class A championship game between George Washington and Tottenville at MCU Park in Coney Island. To follow The Post’s interactive live blog, click here. SCHEDULE 4 p.m. – No. 1...
Tottenville spent the bulk of the season dominating the landscape of PSAL golf. In the semifinals the defending champion and top-seeded Pirates were pushed to the brink by fifth-seeded Leon Goldstein. They needed their No. 5 golfer Andrew Cassara to...
While many athletes have already left to start their collegiate careers, Christine Kline is still at home with uncertainty. The St. Peter’s senior guard, who will attend Cornell University in the fall, is resting after surgery to repair a torn ACL....
A hard-throwing left-hander was blowing away the competition, making a fierce lineup look tame. That pitcher’s own batting order was creating havoc for the opposing pitcher, everyone from the leadoff man to the ninth-place hitter doing damage....
It’s scary to think what Kevin Krause could’ve done Friday afternoon if he was actually healthy. Playing despite a sore left quadricep and right hamstring, the Tottenville senior had three hits, scored twice and drove in a run in the third-seeded...
Whatever happens over the rest of his baseball career, Vin Aiello will probably never forget his first varsity start. Pressed into duty in the opener of Tottenville’s best-of-three PSAL Class A semifinal series, the closer was brilliant in the...
PSAL baseball beat writer, Zach Braziller, breaks down this weekend’s best-of-three, Class A semifinal series' at MCU Park in Coney Island. To follow the action in real time, check out our live blog here. FRIDAY 3:30 p.m. – No. 2 Grand Street...
Monsignor Farrell cruised to the CHSAA Staten Island crown in large part because of its stellar defense and consistent pitching. Neither could be described as strengths Thursday night and now the Lions, the second overall seed in the CHSAA Class...
The ball seemed to hang in the sticky Bronx sky forever, but Joe Venturino had it all the way. The Monsignor Farrell shortstop has made this play a thousand times before so he camped under it at the second base bag and waited for it to drop into his...
George Washington had several sources of motivation in last Saturday’s PSAL Class A championship game. There was suspended coach Steve Mandl sitting front row at MCU Park in...