The day, in order
4:00 PM · Court A · Hartwick College
Pink 71, Hitchcock (Lime) 53
Pink took the game that decides the 2-seed conversation. Lime had just beaten McCoy a week ago. They did not repeat it.
Jordan Gutierrez 24-13 with 2 blocks. Jo Annan 18, with 6 steals. Stevie Melendez 11-8. Elias Perez led Lime with 11. Ethan Odell and Jesse James had 10 each.
Pink by 18. Not a track meet. A grown-up win. They finish 7–1, best differential in the league at +323, and the stingiest defense on the board.
Full box4:00 PM · Court B · Hartwick College
Job Corps 64, Orange 49
This was the 8-seed game, and the dog took it.
Three Job Corps guards scored 20. Josiah Sutton 20-5 with 4 steals. James Bunton 20 with 3 steals. Jaden Reyes 20. Alex Little had 10 and 16 boards and Orange still lost. Ben Conklin had 16.
Orange finishes 3–4 and is the first team out. Job Corps finishes 3–4 and is in. Same record. Different Sunday.
Full box5:00 PM · Court A · Hartwick College
Cam’s 52, Lime 50
One possession. The tightest gym game of the fall that was not a one-point game.
Evan Lane 9 points and 24 rebounds, with 6 assists and 3 steals. Linton Wainright 14. George Sheley 10. Lime got Elias Perez 9-5-4 and Naji Lawrence 9-7-3. Jesse James had 6 and 11 boards.
Cam’s is 6–1. Lime is 3–4 and still in, as the 8. They play Team Blendos on Sunday.
Full box5:00 PM · Court B · Hartwick College
Orange 82, Sand 46
Orange’s second game. Sand’s first of two, and the only one that tipped.
Ben Conklin 31-9-6 with 2 steals. Alex Little 20-18. That is a double-double on top of the 16-board loss an hour earlier. Malachi Ritter kept Sand alive at 21-9. Jr Koren 14-8-5. The rest of the Sand sheet did not travel.
Full box6:00 PM · Court A · Hartwick College
Cam’s 70, Jade 64
Cam’s second game, and they needed overtime to win it. Six points. Jade outplayed the projection and still came up short.
Steve Dangelo almost was the hero. He hit the go-ahead three with 3 seconds left. Linton Wainright answered with a three at the buzzer, tied it, and forced overtime. Maroon won it from there.
Linton Wainright 22-5-5. Mike Baffour 16-6-7. Evan Lane 11-16-3 with 2 blocks — 40 rebounds on the day. Scott Richards 19-15-5 with 4 steals for Jade. Steve Dangelo 16. Dylan Jaklitsch 14-11-8.
Jade finishes 2–5. Out. Cam’s walks into the Armory at 6–1 having played a one-possession game and an overtime game in the same hour.
Full box6:00 PM · Court B · Hartwick College
Sand 50, Black 0, forfeit
Black did not dress. Sand gets the book win. No box. No player lines. Do not read 50–0 as a scouting report.
Sand finishes 2–5. Out.
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McCoy 88, Poolbrook Operations 20
McCoy played Poolbrook Operations. It tipped. It counts.
Ryan Ashline 28-18-12 with 6 steals and a block. Triple-double. A week after 16-on-23 and a quiet second game, the sheet came back. Rob Scianimanico 28-6-6 on the McCoy side of this box. Joe Senchysttyn 16. Zyeir Lawrence 12.
Grey scored 20. Thirteen turnovers. Jacob Hendrich 8. Trent DeBoer 8. That is the season in one line: 0–8, 219 points scored, 768 allowed, −549.
Full box7:00 PM · Court A · Hartwick College
Team Blendos 105, Yellow 73
The unbeaten stayed unbeaten. The total did not stay small.
Nate Cohen 35-6-5 with 4 steals and 7 threes, on 14-of-28. Hobson Herlihy 24 with 6 threes. Brady Smith 22-15. Cam Hayes 17-13-6. Cam LaClair 7-8-8.
Yellow scored. Spencer Williams 21 with 5 threes. Ray Williams 20. Preston Winters 14-11. That is the most Yellow has looked like a team all fall, and it was still a 32-point loss. They finish 0–6.
Blendos finishes 8–0, 889 scored, +256. Cohen is at 301.
Full box7:00 PM · Court B · Hartwick College
Navy 110, Grey 40
Trevor Huntsman 44-18-5 with 5 steals and 3 blocks. Tyler Harris 28-17-8 with 5 steals and 2 blocks. Arie Hillis-Brunson 19-9-5 with 3 steals and 3 blocks. Alex Woeppel 6 points and 6 steals.
Grey’s second game of the night was 40. Rob Scianimanico 20-9 on that box. Navy is 4–3 and in. The 5-seed. They play McCoy at 4:00 Sunday at the Armory.
Full boxForfeit · Book · Hartwick College
McCoy 50, Black 0, forfeit
Black did not dress. McCoy gets the book win and finishes 6–2. The gym game is the 6:15, McCoy 88, Poolbrook Operations 20. The Ashline triple-double is the tape to carry into Sunday.
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