Nyack’s Thakur Takes Second in Championship

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Wrestling engulfed the local sports landscape over the weekend as the best athletes across the Hudson Valley took part in the Sectional Championships.

The two day tournament started off on Saturday with Division 1 competing at and Division 2 taking place at Croton-Harmon.

On Sunday, matches for both Divisions 1 and 2 and several young local athletes competed for the individual championships. As for the team results, Fox Lane narrowly defeated North Rockland for the top spot 172-168.5 in Division 1 and Nanuet creamed the opposition in Division 2 scoring 277 points. Edgemont came in second with 236.

Nyack competed in Division 1 and Kessler Felix (138) didn’t make it out of the first round as he fell to Jake Srednicki in 2:56. After winning his first match against Nick Holahan, Nyack’s Charles Francois fell to second seeded David Varian 5-2.

Senior Adit Thakur (120) had the best day of the Indians as he came away with a second place finish. In the finals Thakur fell to North Rockland’s Jake DiMarsico 3-1 in overtime.

Clarkstown North sent five wrestlers to the championships but only Colby Kash (132) and Ryan Becker (145) made it out of the quarterfinals.

After winning their first two matches both Kash and Becker fell in the semifinals. Kash was pinned by Fox Lane’s Danny Ventura in 1:17 and Becker fell to Joe Mastro 8-3. Kash ended the day in third while Becker wrapped up the tournament in fifth.

Clarkstown South sent 11 athletes to the Section Championships in Division 1. Of the 11 only Tome Marku (182) and Paul Okeke (195) found their way into the semifinals, unfortunately both Marku and Okeke would be pinned in the final four.

Marku was pinned by Yorktown’s Thomas Murray at 1:49, and Okeke was pinned by Mahopac’s Mike Spinelli in 31 seconds. Marku finished the day in fourth and Okeke wound up in fifth.

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Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Boys Basketball (Friday)

Game: Clarkstown North vs. Nanuet
Score: Nanuet Won 60-51

Highlights: Rob Tutein and Turee Jackson both led Nanuet with 16 points whils Chris Moynihan added 12 in the win. Brendan Hendrickson led Clarkstown North with 12 points in the loss.

Sport: Girls Basketball (Friday)

Game: Nyack vs. Clarkstown South

Score: Clarkstown South Won 48-42

Highlights: Laura Castaldo led Clarkstown South with 17 points in the win and Alison Haugh added 11. Tess Bosley picked up 13 points for Nyack in the loss.

Sport: Ice Hockey (Friday)

Game: Clarkstown vs. Suffern

Score: Suffern Won 4-0

Highlights: Willie Sanchez led Suffern with a goal and an assist in the victory. Tyler Stark was a brick wall in front of the net as he had 18 saves in the shutout. Mike Levy made 40 saves as the Clarkstown defense struggled.

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Today’s Schedule:

In High School Basketball, Section 1 will be announcing the boys and girls basketball playoff parings at 9 a.m.

In ice hockey, Clarkstown will host Nyack at the Palisades Ice Arena at 3:30 p.m.

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College Sports Notebook:

Dominican sweeps Nyack on hardwood

KC Jentzen of Pearl River, LaShonda Hathorne of Queens, and Marley Klunk of York, PA, leading the women’s team, and Leon Porter of Laurel, MD, sparking the men’s team, helped Dominican College sweep a doubleheader against rival Nyack College in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contests on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg.

Jentzen and scored 10 points and pulled down seven rebounds, while Hathorne scored 13 points as the Lady Chargers defeated their counterparts from Nyack, 72-49, lifting their record to 11-10 overall and 10-4 in the CACC.

Klunk, who scored 10 points, had eight rebounds to share game-high honors with Nyack College’s Camille Nwosu of Centreville, VA.

The Dominican men’s team, which struggled against Nyack in a previous engagement before winning by three points, this time stamped its victory in 102-77 fashion behind Porter’s 26 points and five assists.

The win elevated the Chargers’ record to 14-7 all told, and 7-6 in conference play, while Nyack remained winless including 0-13 in the conference.

Preston Smith of Mays Landing, NJ, had a team-high seven assists.

Bonnies clinch first-round bye

Junior Alaina Walker of Pomona pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds, and spearheaded another strong defensive effort as the St. Bonaventure University women’s basketball team overcame a 15-point deficit to defeat the University of Dayton, 56-55, in an Atlantic 10 Conference game at Dayton, OH.

Walker, a graduate of Albertus Magnus, added four points and an assist in the winning effort.

Senior Megan Van Tatenhove of Sheboygan Falls, WI, scored a game-high 17 points for the Bonnies (16-6, 8-2 A-10), who grabbed a stranglehold of the conference at 11-0 while extending a program-best 13-game winning streak that lifted its overall mark to a glittering 24-2.

The victory also clinched a first-round bye (top four teams) at the A-10 Championship next month.

The game was a match up of the league's best offense (Dayton, 72.2 points per game) and second-best defense (St. Bonaventure, 54.3 points per game) – a battle which the Bonnies won by holding Dayton to its lowest scoring output in its 10 A-10 games.

St. Bonaventure returns home to the Reilly Center to face Xavier on Saturday (Feb. 18) as part of Homecoming Weekend. The game will be broadcast nationally by CBS Sports Network and is the first game of a doubleheader with the men’s team. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m. from Bob Lanier Court.

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