Sports Digest: Harrison Wrestlers Fall in Section Quarterfinals

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 I competing at and Division II taking place at Croton-Harmon.

 on Sunday. Matches for both Divisions I and II included several local athletes competing for the individual championships. As for the team results, Fox Lane narrowly defeated North Rockland for the top spot 172-168.5 in Division I and Nanuet routed the opposition in Division II, scoring 277 points. Edgemont came in second with 236.

Five Harrison wrestlers competed in the tournament. David Polakoff (132), Max Lukaswitz (138) and Max McMullen (195) each fell in the first round, but Harrison’s Gavin Menchel (120) and Joe Maida (126) won their early matches and made it into the quarterfinals.

After beating North Rockland’s Jose Rodriguez 8-4, Maida took on RC Ketcham’s second-seeded Mark Settembrino in the quarterfinals. Settembrino pinned Maida in 4:34.

Menchel defeated Brandon Badger of Arlington 16-0 before falling in the quarterfinals to sixth seeded Danny Murphy from RC Ketcham. Murphy won the bout 7-5.

Yesterday’s Results:

Boys Basketball (Friday)

Harrison vs. Port Chester

Harrison Won 47-39

Highlights: Harrison hosted Port Chester in the consolation game of this year’s Dapper McDonald Classic. Sophomore swingman Coby Lefkowitz led the way for Harrison, picking 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.

Ice Hockey (Friday)

Game: Rye Town/Harrison vs. Horace Greeley

Score: Teams tied 2-2 in overtime.

Highlights: Justin Grossman and Sam Spar each scored for the Quakers while Evan Jacobs and Ryan Morningstar scored for the Titans.

Today’s Schedule:

In ice hockey, Rye Town/Harrison will host Ossining at Playland at 6:45 p.m.

In high school basketball, Section I will be announcing the boys and girls basketball playoff pairings 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 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 that 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. Tip-off is slated for 2 p.m. from Bob Lanier Court.