Two quarterfinal sectional basketball wins by
the Tri-Valley boys and girls teams Monday night at Grahamsville were fueled by
steals and the scoring talents by sophomore Caroline Martin and the outstanding
three-point scoring accuracy of senior small-forward Rodney T.
Jester.
Martin put her best foot forward in the girls game against
Rhinebeck scoring 15 points to lead the Lady Bears to a 44-37 win.
The low-scoring contest is attributed to sectional play
when defense overshadows offense as was very clear in the first quarter of play
with Chester outscoring the Bears 7-5 as Tri-Valley got scores of two-points by
Mareena DiMilia and three by Nicole Bradley.
Martin took control in the second quarter scoring nine
points as Tri-Valley outscored Rhinebeck 17-9 to take a 22-16 halftime
lead.
Defense again played a leading role in the third quarter of
play with Rhinebeck outscoring Tri-Valley 10-8 cutting the Bears lead at the end
of the third quarter down to 30-26. Tri-Valley scoring was evenly divided with
two points each scored by Katlynn Greffrath, Sabrina Smith, DiMilia and
Martin.
Defense and almost even scoring by both squads in the fourth
quarter gave the Lady Bears the edge outscoring Rhinebeck by three-points, 14-11
with Martin adding four, Bradley two, Smith two, Greffrath five and DiMilia
one.
Both teams committed 11 turnovers.
Tri-Valley entered this game as the fourth seed while
Rhinebeck was the fifth seed.
Martin led Tri-Valley with 15 points and five steals,
DiMilia hit for seven points and had 16 rebounds, Greffrath had 10 points and
Bradley scored seven points and contributed withe 14 rebounds.
Samantha Cassata led Rhinebeck with 15 points.
Tri-Valley coach John Tenbus gave high praise for Martin's
play and for his team doing a good job of setting an on the ball screen and
setting up better screens.
Rhinebeck finishes the season at 8-9 while Tri-Valley
advances with a 14-5 record.
Tri-Valley girls were scheduled to play Wednesday night at
top-seeded Chester.
Tri-Valley fans were awarded the second win of the night in
the boys contest against Chester
thanks to the fourth quarter scoring talents of Jester who
entered the game late in the third quarter with a severe head and chest cold
that he went home with immediately after school to get some bed rest and arrived
back at the gym just in time for his teams warm-ups.
During warm-ups it was apparent Jester's three-pointers were
finding the mark and with Chester leading by two points at the 5:39 mark in the
fourth quarter Jester scored his first of three trays, added a deuce and a foul
shot for his 12-point fourth quarter total. His third tray came at the 3:18
mark to push the Bears lead to 49-44.
Defense was again very evident in this game also as Chester
outscored Tri-Valley 11-10 in the first quarter and 18-10 in the second quarter
to take a halftime lead of 29-20.
Cody Exner scored six points for the Bears in the first
quarter and Jesus Lozada led Tri-Valley scoring efforts in the second quarter
with seven points.
Tri-Valley coach Brian Tingley changed his man to man
defense to a zone starting the second half and it paid off with Chester only
scoring eight points in the third quarter and 14 points in the fourth quarter
while the Bears scored 12 in the third and 29 in the final eight minutes of
play.
Chester took a 37-32 lead going into the fourth quarter
.
Shatic Smith got into the scoring column in the third
quarter with nine points in the third quarter and added nine more in the
fourth.
Adding to the Bears fourth quarter scoring besides Jester
and Smith were two by Lazada and six by James Pugh.
Smith led Tri-Valley's scoring attack with 18 and Pugh and
Lazada each had 11 points.
Chester's scoring was led by Brandon Sadlier with 22,
Lawrence Young with 11 and Nick Seabrook with with 10.
Tri-Valley entered this game as the third seed and Chester
was the sixth seed.
Coach Tingley said a key to the win was "changing to the
zone defense and adding Jester's fresh legs in the late third
quarter."
Chester coach John Marsilio credited Tri-Valley for
"battling and having great resolve and the zone in the second half made us take
some bad shots."
Chester finishes the season at 9-9 while Tri-Valley
continues at 12-7 when they play Pine Plains, the state's top-ranked Class C
team at 6 p.m. at Pine Plains Wednesday night.
Pine Plains has not lost a home game in three years and will
features a college Division 1 pick in Tyler Lydon.
IDENTIFICATION OF PHOTOS
Tri-Valley's small-forward senior Rodney T. Jester shows his
three-point shooting form in an earlier game this season and which earned his
three trays and 12-points in the fourth quarter of the Bears quarterfinal
sectional 61-51 win Monday against Chester.
Tri-Valley's small-forward senior Rodney T. Jester gets an
individual press interview by SportsinsightsNY reporter Richard Ross following
Jester's 12-point fourth quarter scoring off three trays, a deuce and one foul
shot which proved to be a deciding factor in the Bears win over Chester 61-51 in
the quarterfinal sectional game Monday night.
Tri-Valley sophomore guard Caroline Martin scores two of her
team leading 15-points in the Bears quarterfinal 44-37 sectional win over
Rhinebeck Monday night at Grahamsville.
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