Daily Sports Digest: Haber Brings Home Mahopac Title

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We just witnessed a great sports weekend both in high school and professionally. 

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Gymnastics (Friday)

Game: Mahopac Tournament  

Score: Clarkstown Won Class 1 Team Title

Highlights: Clarkstown’s Samantha Haber won the Class 1 all around title with a score of 35.5. Haber’s best event of the day was a 9.7 in the floor exercise.

Sport: Ice Hockey (Friday)

Game: Clarkstown vs. Lakeland/Panas

Score: Clarkstown Won 5-1

Highlights: Mitch LeSueur, Brett Chase, Mike Gillespie, Austin Vanderlinden, and Mike Taussi each scored a goal in the win against Lakeland/Panas.

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Suffern vs. Clarkstown South

Score: Clarkstown South Won 69-35

Highlights: Mike McCahey led the way for South with 19 points and 11 rebounds, the senior also added five rebounds and six assists in the victory. Conor McGuinness added 10 points in the victory. Suffern was led by Rich Ibsen with 19 points.

Sport: Girls Basketball (Friday)

Game: Clarkstown South vs. Suffern

Score: Clarkstown South Won 49-42

Highlights: Laura Castaldo picked up 24 points in the victory for South. Kaitlyn Wood led Suffern with 17 points in the loss.

Sport: Girls Basketball (Friday)

Game: Albertus Magnus vs. Tappan Zee

Score: Tappan Zee Won 73-63

Highlights: Devona Paul picked up 23 points to lead Tappan Zee past the Falcons, Erika Richards added 15 and Valerie DiMuro picked up 14 in the win. Kelly Guarino had 22 points for Albertus Magnus in the loss.

Today’s Schedule:

In Girls Basketball, Tappan Zee heads to Clarkstown North at 4 p.m.

In Boys Basketball, Spring Valley heads to Albertus Magnus at 6 p.m.

Dominican charges to memorable victory

The Dominican College men’s basketball team closed out the sixth annual James Clancy Memorial Tournament with a 55-52 victory over Queens on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg.

Dominican went 2-0; in the consolation game, Dowling College defeated Post University, 63-57, behind a 17-point effort by Michael Hill.

The Chargers led by as many as seven points three times during the first period.   A layup by center Cory Quimby of Otisville, who had the game’s only double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds, put Dominican ahead 22-15 with 4:59 to go and the host held on to a 23-22 advantage at the break.

The Knights came back in the second half and held a 48-44 lead with 5:01 left in regulation, but the Chargers charged back with an 8-2 run with four points coming from Quimby and four from Leon Porter II of Laurel, MD, to re-claim a 52-50 lead with 1:14 on the clock.

Queens tied the score at 52-52 on two free throws with 46 second left, but sophomore guard Khaleev Ginyard of Brentwood hit the game-winning 3 off a pass from Johhathan Brown of Central Islip for the final.

Brown finished with seven points, while Porter had a team leading five assists in the victory.

The Chargers (8-4) are back in action on Jan. 18 when Coach Joe Clinton’s club travels to Bronxville for a game at 7 p.m. against Concordia College.

Hoops for a Cure

Six local basketball teams took each other on at New Rochelle’s Monroe College in a Hoops for a Cure Tripleheader.

The first game pitted unbeatens Tuckahoe and Blind Brook against one another and Tuckahoe came out on top 55-26. New Rochelle took the second game with ease as the Huguenots beat Scarsdale 63-39, and Eastchester came from behind to win the nightcap 66-57.

The weekend was also phenomenal for local fans who were interested in the pros because the Knicks finally got back on track with two wins in Washington andDetroit and the Giants cruised past the Falcons 24-2.

The final game of the NFL’s Wild Card Weekend was the best of them all as the Denver Broncos beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first overtime game in the playoffs under the new rules. The Broncos were led by controversial quarterback Tim Tebow. We have all seen the skit on Saturday Night Live and read  about the former Gator but one thing is for sure; the man’s competitive fire can help heat the city of Denver throughout the winter.

Tebow threw for two touchdowns and 316 yards yesterday which is undoubtedly a great day but it should be noted that the number ‘316’ has its own special place in sports and religious history.

3:16 is a passage in the Bible that has been referenced on signs and shirts at sporting arenas for decades now. We all know that Tebow’s faith is always referenced when his football skills are discussed but he himself has worn this passage on his eyes during college games.

The Broncos seems to be imperishable this season as Tebow is now 8-4 since taking over as starter.

Next week the Broncos will head into New England while the Giants will kick off in Green Bay. Both the Patriots and Packers will be the favorites but the way the Giants and the Broncos are playing right now I wouldn’t be shocked to see Eli and Tebow advancing after next weekend.