second half and set up a 58-55 upset of Christ The King at St. John’s University in the PSAL-CHSAA Challenge.
Samuell, who attended Robeson as a sophomore and Adelphi Academy as a junior, scored a game-high 19 points, including two free throws with nine seconds left.
Zachary Braziller of Five Boro Sports blogged some thoughts on the first-day of the nine-game event and calls the 'Roos' victory the finest moment in the five years of the tournament.
Milestone alert: Newark senior Alyssa Fenyn scored 31 points in a 78-24 rout of Midlakes to go over 2,000 career points. In the same game, teammate Marissa Bunce hit for 19 points to reach 1,000 for her career.
Timing being everything, The Advance touched on the issue of scoring milestones last week in anticipation of Sean Caputo of Petrides reaching 1,000 points in Tuesday's game against Susan Wagner.
As is noted in the story, many teams play more games now than they did 20 years ago. A three-year varsity player can reach 1,000 career points by averaging as few as 13 points a game. The story points out John Engles was once atop the all-time Staten Island list with 1,399 points in 65 games. Since St. Peter's now plays an extended CHSAA postseason, he probably would have had 15 games added to his career.
Staten Island's 1,000-point list had 17 members as of 1977 and has added 62 players in 31 years since.
Niagara Falls edges Nichols: In a battle between the Buffalo area's best boys basketball teams, Niagara Falls beat Nichols, 57-56, on sophomore Kenny Stokes' layup with 25 seconds left.
Nichols had two shots to win, but Chris Stegeman’s long jumper missed and a follow by 6-9 junior Will Regan rolled off the rim.
"An incredible game — just so much fun,” Nichols coach Greg Plumb told The Buffalo News. "This early in the season, with everyone in the stands on their feet, how can’t you have fun? Obviously we lost, but it’s one of those character things for us. It’s early in the season, and it’s all about February."
The Wolverines were led by sophomore Jordan Street, who scored all of his team-high 14 points before halftime. Regan led Nichols with 21 points.
Three-sport athlete dies: "Molly Slator is playing ball with the angels.”
Slator’s father, Dan, wrote those words on his CaringBridge.org blog about his daughter, a junior soccer, basketball and softball player at Stockbridge Valley.
Molly Slator died yesterday from non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma, a rare childhood cancer.
“The one big thing I’ve been telling people is, though cancer took her life, cancer didn’t beat her,” Stockbridge Valley softball coach Chris Peto told The Observer-Dispatch. “She did it on her own terms.”
The police blotter: Shaquana Beamon of Roslyn Heights will appear in court Tuesday to respond to charges that she bit a Roslyn High employee on the arm and leg while he was dispersing a crowd at a basketball game on Thursday.
Beamon, 20, was arrested after the alleged biting, which caused the victim to sustain bruising and swelling, police said. A person who punched the victim in the side of the head remains at large, police said.
Beamon was charged with second degree assault, a felony.
