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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Your 2009 Section 9 boys’ basketball seedings
Section 9 tournament seedings, schedule
CLASS AA
Opening round
Tuesday: 5-Kingston at 4-Washingtonville, 6 p.m.; 7-Warwick at 2-Minisink Valley, 6 p.m.; 6-Pine Bush at 3-Monroe-Woodbury, 7 p.m.
Semifinals
Thursday: Kingston-Washingtonville winner at 1-Newburgh Free Academy, 6 p.m.; Minisink Valley-Warwick winner vs. Pine Bush-Monroe-Woodbury winner, TBA, at the higher seed.
Championship
March 7: Semifinal winners, 4:15 p.m., SUNY New Paltz or Mount Saint [...]
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Section 9 tournament pairings
If everything goes as I hope, they should be posted here and in the main sports section shortly after 7 p.m. Provided they are in my hands.
Check back and I’ll give you some more thoughts on the draw, and some games you won’t want to miss.
******7:15 p.m. Thursday********
We still don’t have them.
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Section 9 tournament preview video
It looks like it will be up on Thursday, hopefully by mid-day. We had some fun doing it, even though some of the outtakes were more along the lines of something R-rated. Mira Wassef really knows her stuff, which you’ll see on this video. The local girls game is lucky to have her level of [...]
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One man’s opinion on D.J. Young’s situation
Well, it looks like we all got a reminder and/or a lesson in the harshness of big-time college athletics. Maybe this stuff goes all on the time, but not in our backyard. Monroe-Woodbury senior D.J. Young made a verbal commitment to accept a football scholarship to Division I Eastern Michigan, which essentially meant D.J. said to [...]
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Thoughts off Monday night
How cool is it that Dylan Galm hit 10 3-pointers for Kingston on the night Tay Fisher was in the house? Fisher was honored on Monday night for holding the state career record for 3-pointers. He was fun to watch in high school, especially playing next to Keith Simmons. Both were Varsity845 player of the [...]
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Previewing the week
In Tuesday’s paper and on Varsity 845: Our Section 9 boys’ basketball preview (minus the official brackets, but with a pretty good idea what will happen), a feature on Newburgh’s Will Bouton and a column entitled something like “Overheard from six rows up.”
Mira Wassef and I will shoot the Section 9 boys’ and girls’ preview [...]
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Thoughts on the MHAL semis
Man, was I bummed that somebody decided to put SUNY Ulster out of the range for my wireless internet card. That folks, was the reason for no in-game updates. Sorry to tease you, but I sort of warned you.
On to the action…..I don’t think either Spackenkill or Coleman Catholic left the place feeling like they [...]
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Get your MHAL semifinal updates here
Technology permitting, I’ll post updates on this blog after each quarter – with some thoughts if time permits
6 p.m. – Spackenkill vs. Coleman Catholic
8 p.m. – Red Hook vs. Rondout Valley
If you can’t make the game, I’ll do my best to make checking back worth your while.
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First thoughts on the boys draw