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Daily Sports Digest: Port Chester's Rodriguez Comes in 2nd at Section Finals

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The Top Spot:

Wrestling headlined local sports action over the weekend as the best athletes across the Hudson Valley took part in the sectional championships.

The two-day tournament started off on Saturday with, Division 1 competing at and Division 2 taking place at Croton-Harmon.

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On Sunday matches for both Divisions 1 and 2 and several young local athletes competed for the individual championships. As for the team results, Fox Lane narrowly defeated North Rockland for the top spot 172-168.5 in Division 1 and Nanuet creamed the opposition in Division 2 scoring 277 points. Edgemont came in second with 236.

Several Rams competed in the section tournament, Justin Karas (152) was eliminated 13-8 in the first round by North Rockland’s Nick Didio. Christian Zamano (220) was pinned by Suffern’s Bryan Burger in 51 seconds in the first round.

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At 99 pounds Kevin Rodriguez had the best weekend for Port Chester. First Rodriguez pinned Carmel’s Kevin Knox in 40 seconds, then the Port Chester junior pinned Jay Albis from John Jay (EF) in 3:05. In the semifinals Rodriguez beat Byram Hills’ Jon Errico 7-0 before falling in the championship to New Rochelle’s Nick Barbaria 14-3.

 

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Harrison vs. Port Chester

Score: Harrison Won 47-39

Highlights: Harrison hosted Port Chester in the consolation game of this year’s Dapper McDonald Classic. Harrison was led by sophomore swingman Coby Lefkowitz who picked up a team high 13 points to go along with eight rebounds Michael Goldman added 10 points in the win. Port Chester’s Preston Higgins led all scorers with 14 points and 14 rebounds in the loss.

 

Today’s Schedule:

In High School Basketball, Section 1 will be announcing the boys and girls basketball playoff parings at 9 a.m.

 

College Sports Notebook:

Dominican sweeps Nyack on hardwood

KC Jentzen of Pearl River, LaShonda Hathorne of Queens, and Marley Klunk of York, PA, leading the women’s team, and Leon Porter of Laurel, MD, sparking the men’s team, helped Dominican College sweep a doubleheader against rival Nyack College in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contests on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg.

Jentzen and scored 10 points and pulled down seven rebounds, while Hathorne scored 13 points as the Lady Chargers defeated their counterparts from Nyack, 72-49, lifting their record to 11-10 overall and 10-4 in the CACC.

Klunk, who scored 10 points, had eight rebounds to share game-high honors with Nyack College’s Camille Nwosu of Centreville, VA.

The Dominican men’s team, which struggled against Nyack in a previous engagement before winning by three points, this time stamped its victory in 102-77 fashion behind Porter’s 26 points and five assists.

The win elevated the Chargers’ record to 14-7 all told, and 7-6 in conference play, while Nyack remained winless including 0-13 in the conference.

Preston Smith of Mays Landing, NJ, had a team-high seven assists.

 

Bonnies clinch first-round bye

Junior Alaina Walker of Pomona pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds, and spearheaded another strong defensive effort as the St. Bonaventure University women’s basketball team overcame a 15-point deficit to defeat the University of Dayton, 56-55, in an Atlantic 10 Conference game at Dayton, OH.

Walker, a graduate of Albertus Magnus, added four points and an assist in the winning effort.

Senior Megan Van Tatenhove of Sheboygan Falls, WI, scored a game-high 17 points for the Bonnies (16-6, 8-2 A-10), who grabbed a stranglehold of the conference at 11-0 while extending a program-best 13-game winning streak that lifted its overall mark to a glittering 24-2.

The victory also clinched a first-round bye (top four teams) at the A-10 Championship next month.

The game was a match up of the league's best offense (Dayton, 72.2 points per game) and second-best defense (St. Bonaventure, 54.3 points per game) – a battle which the Bonnies won by holding Dayton to its lowest scoring output in its 10 A-10 games.

St. Bonaventure returns home to the Reilly Center to face Xavier on Saturday (Feb. 18) as part of Homecoming Weekend. The game will be broadcast nationally by CBS Sports Network and is the first game of a doubleheader with the men’s team. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m. from Bob Lanier Court.

 

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