At the Kenmore West/Niagara Falls game, a fan sitting front row who disagreed with a call by the refs stood up and offered the refs his iPad, saying "Here you go, I got the instant replay right here". The NFHS Pep Band then chanted, "Instant Replay".
McKinley has an 18-game winning streak in the Yale Cup.
In Williamsville North's one-point home loss to Clarence, 70 of its 76 points were scored by underclassmen.
Olmsted played its first nine games with nine different starting lineups. They won six of those games.
Jamestown had its 23-game home winning streak snapped in the 62-49 loss to North.
If Far West Regional reps were to bear out according to how the teams are ranked in the polls currently, we would have the following teams: AA - Falls, A - McKinley, B - Olean, C - Silver Creek. Of those teams, only McKinley can rely on league play for real competition this season.
During Williamsville North's 62-49 win at Jamestown, there was a sign in the JHS student section that read "Taplin Who". After the buzzer sounded, Taplin took the sign and proudly held it up for the North fans. He then took a picture with the girl from JHS who had held the sign during the game. Taplin has since changed his Twitter handle to @TaplinWho.
Canisius senior Adam Weir is just four points shy of 1,000 for his career, a milestone he is sure to achieve in the big rivalry game against St. Joe's tomorrow at the Canisius College Koessler Center.
Jamestown managed just one team assist in its loss to the Spartans.
Newfane's first four wins of the season came against teams with new head coaches: St. Mary's, Grand Island, Barker, & St. Francis.
Ben Drake won his 250th career game as the head coach of Jamestown, when the Red Raiders won at Lancaster on Monday.
Silver Creek is the lone remaining unbeaten team in WNY at 11-0. The Black Knights won their first game by less than 21 points last night, defeating Randolph, 86-79. The Cardinals were the only team besides OTC/MEC to beat Silver Creek last season.
In the Class AA semifinals in 2010, Clarence's Tyler Funk hit a dramatic 3-pointer from the left corner to force overtime against Orchard Park in a game they would go on to win. It was the first 3-pointer of the year for Funk. His brother Ryan who currently plays for the Red Devils, has been almost automatic from the same left corner beyond the arc in the three Clarence games I've seen this year.
Randolph's Bryce Morrison hit nine 3-pointers and scored 39 points in the Cardinals' loss to Silver Creek, the second highest output of the season by a WNY player.
Sam Eckstrom is back in Olean's lineup as of last night against Allegany-Limestone. The junior came off the bench for 13 points, nine rebounds, and four blocks. Early speculation on my part is that Huskies' coach Jeff Anastasia is angling to get Eckstrom the Centercourt Sixth-Man of the Year Award at the Prep Talk/BCANY Awards banquet this April.
-centercourt
9 threes is gunslingin!!!!!!but isnt there an easy adjustment that actually benifits the other team unless the whole team can knock dowwn trwys at will u step out and slow him down to where he is trying to get to tank the three......the weak side of the floor can sag putting them in great reboundinding position and get a man slowing him down and a helside guy that can sag while keeping himdelf between this man and the hpoop must have a husler for this...someone drops nin 3 on you you didnt adjust...maybe it would been only 5 or 6 .....congrats on a good shot.
Posted by: lovethegame | Friday, January 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM
WILL NORTH lost 84-60 at GREEN TECH. NORTH actually led 32-29 at half but ran out of steam. TAPLIN is a very gifted offensives player and NORTH is a decent team but very soft inside and not enough overall quickness to match TECH today.
Posted by: fullcourt1 | Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 04:05 PM
Another good team from wny goes away and gets beat,wny hoops competiive and fun but not great.Roch. event in feb, has canisius ,nf,timon that will be tough day for sect. 6
Posted by: guest | Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 01:20 PM
A tough day for Section VI would only imply a Falls loss. I'm sure that's not what you meant though.
I think WNY wins all five games in Rochester that weekend:
Olean over East - 2/1
Falls over Webster Schroder - 2/2
Canisius over Fairport - 2/2
Timon over Roch East - 2/2
Falls over BK - 2/3
But I'd much rather go 5-0 in Rochester a month later.
Posted by: centercourt | Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 03:02 PM
Wow...tremendous confidence...I'd give Fairport a slight edge over Canisius playing in Roch and I'd take Roch East over Timon.
Posted by: TML1000 | Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 03:13 PM
Will BK get it together by the end of the season?
Posted by: Fan | Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 03:19 PM
As far ASROCH-EAST goes; it depends which team shows up; they have a prolific guard INCARUTHERS; a decent big man in BANKS and a few other athletic kids ; but they are very raw with little varsity experience other then CARUTHERS and BANKS. They have also had some line up shifts due to injuries.When they are clicking; they are very dangerous; when they are not; they could lose to almost anyone.
Posted by: fullcourt1 | Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 05:20 PM