Posted Saturday, April 16th, 2011
BasketBull’s Hall of Fame Championship Series is making their annual stop in Connecticut this weekend at Wesleyan University in Middletown. Saturday’s action was highlighted by a late night match-up between BABC and the Mass Rivals in the sixteen-and-under division. The game was hard-fought for all 32 minutes with BABC clinging to a slim lead for the first 24 minutes before utilizing a late second half run to ultimately pull away for a 55-42 win. Defense once again proved to be…
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Posted Friday, April 15th, 2011
Coppola Staying Close to Home Watertown’s senior star Marco Coppola will be staying in Massachusetts for the next four years but taking his game to Worcester where he will star for WPI. Coppola was one of the best shooters in the MIAA in recent years and led Watertown to their latest post-season run this season, culminating with a spot in the division III finals. While he is best known for his shot making prowess, Coppola’s total game has developed at…
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Posted Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Maine Central Institute’s sharp-shooting post-graduate Omari Grier made a verbal commitment to Florida Atlantic yesterday. Grier was one of the top available players left in New England and one of the best pure shooters in the greater northeast. Grier took an official visit to Florida Atlantic’s campus in Boca Raton, Florida last weekend and chose the Owls over Arkansas-Little Rock, who he was scheduled to visit later this week. Prior to arriving at MCI, Grier starred at Episcopal High School…
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Posted Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
A trio of local prep products realized their goal recently, earning scholarships to play division II basketball. At Lee Academy, Ben Teer signed a National Letter of Intent on Wednesday with Alaska Fairbanks and will head north next year. A scrappy and rugged point guard who is known for an incredible work ethic, Teer maximized his post-graduate year and exceeded expectations in order to earn his scholarship. A Maine native who played and graduated at Washington Academy prior to arriving…
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Posted Monday, April 11th, 2011
The Fay brothers ended their recruitment late last week as senior Jared Fay and sophomore Jake Fay both made verbal commitments to play for Fordham University in the Atlantic 10. Jared heads to the Bronx next year as a redshirt walk-on and then begins the first of his four year scholarship as an academic sophomore, meaning that he and his younger brother will have three years together when Jake arrives in the fall of 2013. The Fays join their Brimmer…
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Posted Monday, April 11th, 2011
Braeden Anderson made a verbal commitment to Kansas this weekend, putting to an a long and well documented recruiting process. The Canadian native arrived at Wilbraham & Monson Academy this September as a post-graduate, made a commitment to DePaul in the fall, and signed during November's early signing period. Since receiving his release in January there have been a variety of conflicting reports about just who was recruiting him and to what extent. One thing that became abundantly clear however,…
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Posted Monday, April 11th, 2011
The Boston Amateur Basketball Club was the talk of the town this weekend at session I of Nike's Elite Youth Basketball League, earning a variety of national headlines in the process. While Nerlens Noel and Wayne Selden both played to rave reviews, the key to BABC's success continues to be their defense. Holding opposing teams to just .403 shooting from the floor, BABC led the league in scoring defense by holding opponents to just 51.7 points per game while also…
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Posted Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Sunday was a good day for the Expressions Elite program as they captured championships in both u15 and u16 (as well as u14) at the Northeast Hoops Festival. The sophomore championship saw a blend of kids from two powerful programs, Expressions and Mass Rivals, unite under the Expressions banner under the direction of Rivals head coach Vin Pastore. The results spoke for themselves as they ran away with the u16 final. The run began with a hard fought 63-61 win…
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Posted Sunday, April 10th, 2011
The fourteen-and-under field ended up the same as the fifteen-and-under group at the Northeast Hoops Festival – with CBC and Expressions being the last two clubs standing. Both clubs were coming off big semifinal wins and the final was nothing short of a back and forth offensive battle that delighted the on-looking crowd. The first half saw an individual scoring battle between two talented young players as Expressions’ Aaron McLean had 16 points while CBC’s Blair Howard had 22 of…
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Posted Sunday, April 10th, 2011
The fifth annual New England Hoops Festival came to an exciting conclusion on Sunday as the Pitt Center at Sacred Heart University was rocking. Long Island Lightning Dingle came away the big winner in the u17 field, knocking off CBC and Mass Rivals on Saturday and following with a big win over the Juice All-Stars on Sunday 74-63. The interior duo of Kamari Murphy and Daniel Dingle proved to be the difference all weekend long for the Lightning as the…
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