Sleepy Hollow Girls Basketball Closes Out Regular Season With Back-to-Back Wins

The Sleepy Hollow girls basketball team capped off a 14-5 regular season--one of the best in recent memory--with a smooth road swing that featured stops in the Yonkers/Tuckahoe area.

Sleepy Hollow fended off Saunders (13-4), withstanding a late rally to post a 47-40 victory. Bolstered by a rapid-fire, game-breaking 23-11 burst in the third quarter Tuesday, the Headless Horsemen hung a 61-49 defeat on lowly Tuckahoe.

At the tail-end of the regular season, Jamie Bucci’s diverse offensive arsenal was on full display. Horsemen head coach Nick Romeo hopes her recent performances are a harbinger of things to come. The junior guard lofted teary floaters, bagged a trio of 3-pointers in each game and penetrated the seams of the defense with funky off-balance shots.

Bucci torched Tuckahoe for 17, as the Horsemen rendered the Tigers a one-girl gang. Tess Meyer erupted for a game-high 24 points (accounting for nearly half of Tuckahoe’s offensive output) but the Tiggers did not have enough offensive weapons to supplement her hot-handed exploits.

The Class A seeds were done Wednesday at BOCES in Elmsford. Sleepy Hollow garnered the No.7 seed. They are slated for a date with Byram Hills, the no.10 seed, at home tonight.

Few could have envisioned Sleepy Hollow turning out a season of this caliber. Head coach Nick Romeo cultivated a gush of young talent, plucking some freshmen from the grass-roots circuit and acclimatizing them to the fast pace of the Varsity tier.

Romeo is beginning to reap the rewards of his youth experiment, as the youth-laden team appears to be a finished product.

Kerry Oliviera, who scored 12 points in the trouncing of Tuckahoe, is the lone senior and has embraced the leadership role.  Romeo always felt she had the tools to emerge into the intrinsic leader and his foresight  and words have proven prophetic.

The longest-tenured player on the roster, Oliviera is has the most wins for a Sleepy Hollow player since 1994. Once an introvert, the four-year varsity player has now become the voice a reason as she finds herself at the apex of an illustrious career.

Today, a reputable Byram Hills club spearheaded by dynamic forward Beatriz Williams enters Sleepy Hollow for what has all the ingredients to be an epic, high-intensity playoff matchup.