Daily Sports Digest: New Rochelle’s Barbaria Brings Home Crown

The Top Spot:

Wrestling engulfed the local sports landscape 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.

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.

Fourteen of New Rochelle’s best young athletes competed in Division 1 of the Sectional Championships this weekend. As a team New Rochelle finished in third place with 119.

Two Huguenots finished in second place as Tyler Lilly (220) fell to top seeded Dom DeVita of Somers 3-2 and New Rochelle’s eighth seeded Justin Douglas (285) fell to Yorktown’s David Varian 3-2 in overtime.

Nick Barbaria (99) won the title with little competition as he cruised passed his opponents. In the championship Barbaria defeated Port Chester’s Kevin Rodriguez 14-3.

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: New Rochelle vs. Mount Vernon
Score: Mount Vernon Won 79-52

Highlights: Qwadere Lovell and Jarrell Marshall each had 20 points in the win as the newly named Mr. Basketball for Section 1 Isaiah Cousins finished with 15. Malik Burts and Kirkland Ottey each had 12 points in the loss.

Sport: Girls Basketball (Friday)

Game: New Rochelle vs. Mount Vernon
Score: Mount Vernon Won 69-60

Highlights: Mount Vernon’s Luburdia Gordon and Sade King each ended the game with 20 points. New Rochelle’s Aaliyah Hayes had 12 points in the loss.

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Iona Prep vs. White Plains
Score: Iona Prep Won 45-36

Highlights: Luke Wooters had ten points and eight assists to lead the Gaels to the home victory. Akeem Williams led all scorers with 17 points in the loss.

Sport: Boys Basketball (Sunday)

Game: Iona Prep vs. Cardinal Spellman 
Score: Iona Prep Won 58-56

Highlights: Luke Wooters scored on a coast to coast layup as time expired to give the Gaels the win. Wooters finished to with 23 points in the win.

Sport: Winter Track and Field 

Game: The Milrose Games at The Armory
Score: Full Results

Highlights: New Rochelle won the Suburban High School Girls 4x400 Meter Relay finals. Alicia Donaldson, Ashley Wiggins, Deajah Stevens, and Selena Marshall came in with a time of 3:56.44 for the Huguenots.

Today’s Schedule:

The Section 1 boys and girls basketball committees will meet to put together the playoff pairings at 9 a.m. today.

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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