Posted Friday, January 1st, 2010
The final week of 2009 produced a number of notable performances as various holiday tournaments took place throughout all six New England states. Connecticut Player of the Week – Vic Anderson, New Leadership Prep: Anderson earned MVP honors at the fifth annual Queens Jam Christmas Classic over the weekend, finishing with 33 points, 7 assists, and 10 rebounds while making 6 of his 8 attempts from behind the three-point line. He followed that up with 30 points in a loss…
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Posted Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The primary function of the New England Recruiting Report is to look ahead. We look at what prospects are doing now and attempt to translate that into what they may do down the road in college. With the turn of the calendar, we are going to take this rare opportunity to look back at the year gone by and examine who the best teams, stock risers, and recruits really were. Best Prep School Team – Tilton School (New Hampshire): With…
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Posted Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
At this time last year the New England Recruiting Report offered some “predictions for the new year.” Among those predictions were our forecasts for the 27 New England and state titles that are crowned in our region each and every year. By the time last March rolled around, our prophecy skills had been proven fairly accurate as 16 of our projected 27 winners did in fact go on to claim their respective championships. So with that in mind, this year…
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Posted Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The 2009 BABC Holiday Classic welcomed high school teams from four of New England’s six states to Chelsea High School over the last two days. Three divisions were comprised of four teams each as opening round games were played on Monday and final rounds on Tuesday. Scoreboard New England Division – Consolation Cambridge Rindge Latin 65 La Salle Academy 43The hometown Massachusetts team handled the visitors from Rhode Island with relative ease as Cambridge got 25 points from Ahmed Charles…
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Posted Monday, December 28th, 2009
When P.J. Santavenere made the decision to do a post-graduate year at Rise Academy he knew he was taking the road less traveled. Not only was he making the rare decision to leave the New England region, arguably the national hub of prep school basketball, but he was also choosing a post-graduate program that wasn’t necessarily a school at all. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rise Academy “provides an advanced alternative to high school basketball” according to their website. Essentially, it…
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Posted Sunday, December 27th, 2009
The third annual Vanguard Big City Classic took place this weekend in New Haven, welcoming all four of the cities’ top high school programs in addition to four other top programs from across southern Connecticut. Here is a recap of the action: Kolbe Cathedral 81 Danbury 76 The all-time leading scorer in University of Connecticut men’s basketball history is off to an impressive start to his coaching career as Chris Smith’s Kolbe Cathedral team improved to 3-0 in his first…
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Posted Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Loomis Chaffee post-graduate John Nielsen has made a verbal commitment to attend St. Anselm’s College next year on a full basketball scholarship. Nielsen arrived at Loomis this fall after a tremendous two sport career at Port Jefferson High School in New York. As the quarterback of the football team, Nielsen earned All-Suffolk County honors while leading his team to a 6-3 record. But his biggest success always took place on the basketball court. The six-foot-two shooting guard led Port Jefferson…
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Posted Friday, December 25th, 2009
YNETV is broadcasting Brewster Academy’s game against NIA Prep from November’s National Prep Showcase. YNETV will be teaming up with MyTV to air the game, which will reach 3 million households in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. The game will air on Saturday, December 26th beginning at 8:30p.m. in most regions. In parts of Maine the game will be showed at 12:30p.m. If your regular cable package does not include MyTV you can still access the game over satellite…
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Posted Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
The New England Recruiting Report will once again be publishing our weekly list of notable performances this high school season. As always nominations can be made over e-mail with the weekly list being published first thing Friday mornings. Without further ado here are New England’s notable performances in the last week: New Hampshire Player of the Week – Sean McClung, Bishop Guertin HS: The junior forward knocked down a bank shot at the buzzer to give Bishop Guertin a 59-57…
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Posted Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Notre Dame Prep has a big surprise on their roster…and we do mean big. Raphael Giaimo, a six-foot-ten two-hundred-and-seventy-pound center, was a late addition to the Notre Dame roster this fall. A native of Marseille, France, Giaimo didn’t arrive in American until after the fall evaluation period had taken place. He has also yet to log very many game minutes as Notre Dame Prep head coach Ryan Hurd is intent to bring him along slowly. But with his incredible size…
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