If you’re a female high school basketball player interested in going out for the BCANY Summer Hoops Festival team, tryouts are quickly approaching. Tryout dates are Wednesday, June 5 and Thursday, June 6 at Goshen High School. Both sessions begin at 6 p.m., but players are asked to arrive at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday for [...]
Last year, mid-Hudson’s team that competed in the Basketball Coaches Association of New York Summer Hoops Festival served as “The Redeem Team”, taking the bronze medal a year after going winless. And what about this summer’s squad? Can they take the gold? We will find out later this summer. But, first, we have to see [...]
Stan is the man. John S. Burke Catholic senior center Stan Buczek was named to the Class A first-team all-state team on Wednesday by the New York State Sportswriters Association. Pine Plains point guard Justin Cooper was the only other Section 9 player to be named to the first team – in Class C. Kingston [...]
Kingston point guard Justin Robinson will bring his electric game to Jersey. Robinson, the Varsity845 Player of the Year, has verbally committed to play at Division I Monmouth (N.J.). He said on Monday that he will receive a full athletic scholarship. Robinson, who led Kingston to its first Section 9 Class AA title in nine [...]
Earlier this month, the Triple Threat Elite AAU prep team competed in the Zero Gravity Tournament in Poughkeepsie, winning all four games it played. The team beat the Brooklyn Saints, 46-38, to win the title in the 10th grade division. The team is pictured above. Triple Threat’s 11th grade team also won all four games [...]
The Varsity845 girls’ basketball All-Star team for the 2012-13 will be published in the paper on Saturday, April 6. You’ll be able to find stories on our Player and Coach of the year, as well as info on the first, second and honorable mention teams at www.Varsity845.com In the meantime, check out the video above. [...]
The key to the success of the Monroe-Woodbury girls’ basketball team this past season was a deep bench, but the one player on which the Crusaders could always count was Kerrie Walsh. Walsh averaged 13.7 points, 4.4 steals, 3.2 assists and 2.8 rebounds, leading the team to a Section 9 Class AA title. At Tuesday [...]
The all-state girls’ basketball team was released today by the New York State Sportswriters Association. (We plan to publish the Varsity845 all-stars in the paper this weekend. I’ll be back with more info on that later.) I’ll list the player and coach of the year in each class as well as any Section 9 players [...]
The New York State Sportswriters Association released its final rankings for girls’ basketball in Classes C and D. Tuxedo winds up at No. 9 in Class C and is the only Section 9 team to make the top 20. Livingston Manor, with an impressive first half showing in a state semifinal against state runner-up Oriskany, [...]
Class AA Player of the year: Senior point guard Justin Robinson, Kingston Coach of the year: Ron Kelder, Kingston Team: Soph. guard Aaron Ray, Middletown; Jr. guard Donovan Fields, Newburgh Free Academy; Sr. center Calvin Crawford, Valley Central; Sr. forward Kiernan Hayes, Washingtonville; Sr. guard Jordan DeCicco, Kingston; Sr. guard Jerry Hall, Newburgh Free Academy; [...]
