game reports

By Dylan Friebel

Albany-

The Albany Cup, last year it was played at Albany Academy and was a very heated game. Albany Academy came out with the win. Well this year bigger venue, and played under the SLAM HS x Zero Gravity Basketball banner at the Washington Avenue Armory.

It was the Eagles of Green Tech who jumped out the early lead and surprised the Cadets. They were out to a 6-2 lead about halfway through the first quarter and that's when the nerves of the game started to settle down for the Cadets. It was then that Andre Jackson, Marcus Jackson and August Mahoney started to impose their will on the offense end. They were down only by three at the end of quarter as Green Tech held a 13-10 lead.

The first two minutes of the second quarter went the Cadets way as they scored six quick points in the first minute and a half. It was soon after that Andre Jackson, the junior star threw down a thunderous alley-oop on a pass from the other star Mahoney and they had a 24-16 lead at that point. As the quarter ended, Academy held a six point lead at 28-22 and it felt as if Tech maybe had the chance to stick it out and make a game.

When the third started it was clear and quick that whatever message Coach Brian Fruscio told his Cadets, it worked as they started to impose their will on the game on the defensive end, making it tough for the Eagles to even pass, as they won the quarter 21-13 and took a 49-35 lead into the fourth where they help the lead and came out with a 67-53 win behind a game high 19 points from Marcus Jackson, while Josh Rodriguez led the Eagles with 19.

“It was our game plan to come out and jump on them early.” Said Eagles Coach DJ Jones “We wanted to control the glass, get out and run and put pressure on them full court. I don’t think they expected us and maybe even underestimated us a little bit. However a couple calls went against us and it changed the tempo of the game.”

While Andre did not score the majority of the teams points, he did not need to as Academy played the team game on Saturday Night.

“It was a great experience to play against some of my friends i play pickup with everyday.” He said. “Even though I did not score a lot today, I did what i had to do for the team, got rebounds and found the open players. They took away some of the things I wanted so I had to go to the other players and i am fine with it, we won so I’m happy with that.”

11/24/17

Girls Varsity Final:

	End 1Q	Halftime	End 3Q	Final
Guilderland	10	21	41	64
Cobleskill	14	24	37	45

Final scoring stats with full play by play HERE:

Guilderland video highlights

Cobleskill video highlights

Guilderland		Cobleskill
7	3PT SHOOTING	2
13-18	FREE THROWS	13-20
72%	FT %	65%
3	LEADS	2
21	LARGEST LEAD	5

	Top Scorers

Guilderland	Valencia Fontenelle-Posson #3	21
Guilderland	Graycen Dubin #22	13
Cobleskill	Sabrina Pressley #10	17
Cobleskill	Alexandra Pacatte #3	13

Game Flow

11/29/17

Boys Varsity Final:

-Schenectady’s Jay-Quan Johnson's 10 first quarter points helped the Patriots open up a 5 point lead over Green Tech after the opening period.

-Green Tech opened the second quarter on a 13-1 run turning a 5 point deficit into a 7 point lead with 5 minutes left in the 2Q, which turned out to be their biggest lead of the game. Lakyi Russell scored 8 of those points including connecting on back to back 3 three pointers.

-Schenectady countered with a 7-1 run to tie it at 28 on a Tyrone Pettway bucket.

-Green Tech then responded with an 8-2 run to go up 36-30 with 1:48 left in the half.

-Schenectady scored the last 7 points of the half to take a 37-36 lead at the half.

-Schenectady took their biggest lead of the night (8 points) with 3:13 left in the 3Q. They continued to get to the free throw line as they were attacking the hoop almost every trip.

-Green Tech closed the 3^rd quarter on a 10-4 run to cut the deficit to 2 points, 60-58, after 3 periods.

-Green Tech jumped out to a 6 point lead in the 4Q and seems in control with 2:48 left in the contest.

-Schenectady continued to scrap and get to the free throw line and came all the way back to take a 1 point lead on a Twyquan Jenkins basket with only 1:03 left in the game. Jay-Quan Johnson then stole an inbound pass and fed Cameron Coles for the hoop to put Schenectady up 3.

-After a Josh Rodriguez basket with 0:36 left Green Tech cut the Schenectady lead to 1. They are forced to foul and Schenectady can’t convert on 4 straight FT attempts. This gave Green Tech the ball with 8 seconds left. Lakyi Russell is fouled with 5 seconds left just across half court. He converts both attempts leaving Schenectady one last possession. The Patriots long 3 point attempt didn't fall. Green Tech made 2 FT’s with 0.5 seconds left to win 82-79.

	End 1Q	Halftime	End 3Q	Final
Schenectady	19	37	60	79
Green Tech	14	36	58	82

Final scoring stats with full play by play HERE:

Schenectady video highlights

Green Tech video highlights

Schenectady		Green Tech
3	3PT SHOOTING	6
18-39	FREE THROWS	16-25
46%	FT %	64%
9	LEADS	7
8	LARGEST LEAD	7

	Top Scorers

Schenectady	Cameron Coles #4	27
Schenectady	Jay-Quan Johnson #10	25
Green Tech	Josh Rodriguez #1	27
Green Tech	Lakyi Russell #5	23

Game Flow

11/28/17

Boys Varsity Final:

Watervliet used a 10-2 run in the last 4:10 of the game to seal the victory over Schalmont. Schalmont was down as many as 16 points in the 3^rd quarter but rallied to cut the deficit to 4, 53-49, with a Mike Tommasone free throw. Watervliet’s Joey Atkins scored 6 of his game high 18 points during the decisive end game run for the Cannoneers. Jesse O’Dell led the Sabres with 16 points.

	End 1Q	Halftime	End 3Q	Final
Schalmont	7	19	40	51
Watervliet	13	33	46	63

Final scoring stats with full play by play HERE:

Schalmont video highlights

Watervliet video highlights

Schalmont		Watervliet
5	3PT SHOOTING	2
10-18	FREE THROWS	3-5
56%	FT %	60%
0	LEADS	1
0	LARGEST LEAD	16

	Top Scorers

Schalmont	Jesse O Dell #41	16
Schalmont	2 players tied with	10
Watervliet	Joey Atkins #0	18
Watervliet	JJ Chestnut #3	16

Game Flow

12/1/17

Girls Varsity Final:

Following a Columbia 11-2 scoring run to tie the game at 40, Niskayuna's Olivia Owens driving basket with just over 1 minute left in the game helped the Warriors prevail 45-42.

Final scoring stats with full play by play HERE:

	End 1Q	Halftime	End 3Q	Final
Niskayuna	12	22	35	45
Columbia	8	20	27	42

Niskayuna video highlights

Columbia video highlights

Niskayuna		Columbia
3	3PT SHOOTING	4
4-14	FREE THROWS	6-9
29%	FT %	67%
5	LEADS	2
10	LARGEST LEAD	1

	Top Scorers

Niskayuna	Olivia Owens #35	14
Niskayuna	Tyra O Meally-Turnbull #33	12
Columbia	Alysia Roldan #35	14
Columbia	Lexi Van Vorst #1	12

Niskayuna	Lead Changes	Columbia
2	* Niskayuna: Ivian Owens #20 2 PT FG MADE [1Q 07:50] *	0
2	* Columbia: Lauren Obermeyer #24 3 PT FG MADE [1Q 07:38] *	3
4	* Niskayuna: Tyra O Meally-Turnbull #32 2 PT FG MADE [1Q 06:39] *	3
19	* Columbia: Alysia Roldan #35 2 PT FG MADE [2Q 02:24] *	20
22	* Niskayuna: Emma Souky #14 3 PT FG MADE [2Q 00:00] *	20
24	* Niskayuna: Olivia Owens #35 2 PT FG MADE [3Q 04:51] *	22
42	* Niskayuna: Olivia Owens #35 2 PT FG MADE [4Q 01:04] *	40

Game Flow

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