January 20, 2012
by Brian Rosen
In avenging its only two league losses from last year, the Greeley Boys’ varsity basketball team rumbled past the Port Chester Rams on Wednesday evening, 62-42. Harrison Brown and Justin Ciero led the Greeley scoring with 21 points and 12 points, respectively. Teddy Graves continued his strong play contributing 10 points, three steals and five rebounds.
Port Chester jumped off to a 4-0 lead, but it was all Greeley after that. The Quakers finished the first quarter up 15-4 and widened the gap to 33-16 at the half. After the third period, Greeley was up by 26 points, 51-25. The lead allowed some younger players to get some meaningful playing time; Jake Ault netted the first two points of his varsity career.
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NEW: Greeley boys’ basketball team wins barnburner in overtime against Peekskill, 76-75
by Brian Rosen
The Greeley Quakers won a heart-stopping overtime thriller, 76-75, on Saturday January 14 against the Peekskill Red Devils.
The Quakers raced out to 17-11 lead by the end of the first quarter. Greeley was paced by 11 points by Justin Ciero and a long-range bomb by Connor Domershick. But by the end of two quarters, the Peekskill Red Devils had drawn to 35-30. During the second quarter, Greeley pounded the ball inside to Harrison Brown and received strong support from a timely Brett Klein three and aggressive play by Teddy Graves and Cole Benack.
The third quarter saw Peekskill continue to advance on Greeley and actually take the lead on several occasions. But the Quakers hung tough and at the end of the third quarter still led, 49-48. Although outscored in the quarter, 18-14, Greeley consistently broke the Red Devils’ full court press and aggressively defended and out-rebounded Peekskill. This bode well for the final quarter and the overtime period that followed.
Both sides run up the score in the fourth
During the fourth quarter, baskets came quickly for both sides with Greeley relying heavily on Brown inside and Ciero from the outside. With only seven seconds remaining, Greeley enjoyed a three-point lead. The Red Devils inbounded the ball and hit a three-pointer from the left wing to knot the game and send it into overtime. The shot drove the hometown crowd into pandemonium.
But the Quakers were undaunted. The lead changed hands several times during the overtime period and Greeley found itself down by two near the end. Then Josh Rosen dribbled around his defender and, with only six seconds left, threw a “no look” pass to Brown underneath, who converted the easy lay-up for the lead and the ultimate victory.
Harrison Brown finished with 34 points and Justin Ciero contributed 21.
Brian Rosen is the father of Josh Rosen, a senior member of the 2011-12 Greeley Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team.
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