May
19
After four years at Rutgers, Kia Vaughn will play for the Liberty this season
Every day of school for four years, Kia Vaughn would get off the subway from the Bronx at Penn Station and walk past Madison Square Garden on her way down 33rd St. to St. Michael Academy. The small all-girls school with a gym that has a low ceiling and concrete columns throughout the court is where Vaughn’s basketball dreams began.
Those dreams have come true as the 6-4 center now calls the Garden home.
“It’s a big leap,” Vaughn said yesterday of going from being one of the city’s top high school players to a first-round selection (eighth overall) by her hometown Liberty in last month’s WNBA draft. “It’ll be an inspiration, I hope.” Read more..
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Feb
09
No. 1 John F. Kennedy and guard Jeffrey Arzu have won 11 straight entering the Bronx borough playoffs
You can call this the John F. Kennedy Invitational. The top-seeded Knights are the clear-cut favorite. Of any of the four borough tournaments, them not winning would be the biggest surprise.
That’s not an indictment of the other seven participants; it’s praise for Kennedy.
No. 2 Wings Academy has righted the ship recently, playing better on the defensive end. No. 3 Truman got better as the year went on and No. 4 Lehman has a dynamic inside-out duo in center Armand (Big Baby) Thomas and guard Aaron Barnes. Class A high-scoring entrants South Bronx, Evander Childs and Taft could make trouble for the higher seeds as well.
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Dec
17
Wings Academy guard Dashaun Wiggins scored 15 points, but it was his big rebound late that clinched the 80-78 victory over JFK. Photos by Damion Reid
SLOW-STARTING JFK FALLS SHORT, EYES WINGS REMATCH
Dashaun Wiggins saw the ball come out of James Blue’s fingertips and immediately thought rebound. Blue, Wiggins said, has a tendency to shoot long, and he twisted his right wrist, another sign the junior said, that it would come off the back rim.
He slightly nudged Kelvin Dixon, John F. Kennedy’s 6-foot-6 forward, and out-leaped him. Wiggins came away with the rebound, but in essence the game. He knocked down two free throws, sealing Wings Academy’s 80-78 victory over Kennedy at Bronx Regional HS. The win moves the Wings into first place in Bronx AA by their lonesome.
“This gives us a lot of confidence,” said junior forward Krystian Foriest, who had 15 points and nine rebounds. “It lets everybody know we’re back and we’re here to rule the Bronx.” Read more..
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Nov
03
It isn’t much of a secret, at least not to coach Tricia Palotti. She knows her Bayside girls’ volleyball team has a tendency to play to the level of its opponent. She saw its bad side in a two-set loss against middling PSAL Queens 6-A opponent Townsend Harris on Oct. 15.
“We definitely shouldn’t have lost,” Palotti said.
But when the Commodores are playing against high level of competition, they’re quite formidable. On Sunday, they were very good. Bayside beat Kennedy, 25-20, 16-25, 25-21, in the final of JFK’s host tournament in the Bronx. Kennedy was ranked No. 2 in the PSAL in last week’s FiveBoroSports.com top 10.
The Commodores had two second-place finishes in tournaments this season: one at Cardozo and the other at the first Seward Park tourney.
“They were tired of coming in second place,” Palotti said with a laugh.
Bayside, which is 6-3 in Queens 6-A, swept Kennedy and Hillcrest in pool play and defeated Lehman in the tournament’s semifinals.
“They played a very consistent game,” JFK coach Iris Bromfield. Read more..
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