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Girls Playoffs Tonight: Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Daily Sports Digest, March 1

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The below was taken from the Hackley Athletic Department website. We congratulate the Hornets on their undefeated regular-season and wish both Hackley and Sleepy Hollow good luck tonight in their playoff games.:

Great regular season for girls basketball 

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2/24/2012
By Jason Edwards,Hackley Athletics Director: It gives me great pleasure to announce that the girls’ varsity basketball team has ended their regular season undefeated. They played Horace Mann Thursday evening, winning by a score of 58-25 to end the regular season.

As expected our girls’ basketball team received the #1 seed for the upcoming NYSAIS tournament next Thursday, March 1st starting at 5:00 PM. Hackley will be hosting the winner of the Fieldston-Chapin game.

I have included the roster below as this is a huge accomplishment for the team and the program and they deserve to be recognized. Coach Shelagh Amann and Ann Marie Bauer have done an incredible job with the girls. Congratulations to the team and the best of Luck in the Playoffs!!!

  • Seniors: Capt. Nia Yancopoulos, Capt. Trish Gorman, Carolyn King
  • Juniors: Capt: Allie Coppola, Dom Alpuche, Julianna Piscina, Katie Maguire
  • Sophomores: Ally Mueller, Laurel Cassidy and Stefanie Frolo

LoHud Girls Preview

Yaron Weitzman of the LoHud Girls Basketball Blog gives a detailed preview of No. 6 Sleepy Hollow's Section 1 Class A semifinal against No. 2 Tappan Zee, which will be tonight at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1 at the Westchester County Center in White Plains.

To see the link, click on Weitzman's post here.

College News from Dick Miller

Basketball

At Binghamton on Feb. 21st, Vermont lost to the Bearcats, 57-53, a team that had not won a game previously during the season. Sandro Carissimo (Sleepy Hollow-Iona Prep '10) of the Catamounts, scored 6 points on 3 baskets had a g/t high of 5 assists, and 1 steal in the shocker.

On Feb. 25th, at home with U.M.B.C., they creamed their guests, 80-49, with the guard scoring 9 points, plus 4 boards, 2 assists, and 2 steals in the game. The regular season stats were 20-11:13-3, as they head into the playoffs.

Weekly Sports Poll

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Major League Baseball lost a great earlier this month, former Met and Expo Gary Carter

Eleven years after he retired, Carter was elected into the baseball Hall of Fame and many consider him one of the best catchers of all time. 

But where do you think “Kid” ranks among the best New York back stops of all time?

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