Kingston cruises to Senior Night triumph
KINGSTON, N.Y. » It was all hands in for Kingston High’s girls Tuesday night as the Tigers handled Minisink Valley 63-35 in their Senior Night basketball game.
Kingston had 11 different players score in the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association crossover contest, including seven of the eight seniors who were honored before the game.
Seniors Chloe Chaffin (17 points, four assists), Jaid Harrell (14 points, six rebounds) and Ashley Cook (nine points, three assists) led the Tigers, who needed half a quarter to get going.
Other seniors scoring were Analiese Amato, Evelyn MyersMcCarthy and Lanasia Dorsey with four points each and Alison Klein with two. Vanessa Santiago came tantalizingly close to joining her senior mates in the scoring column, seeing a 15-foot jumper spin out in the fourth quarter.
“It’s nice to have games like this for Senior Night,” Kingston coach Steve Garner said. “The
plan was to go that way, so I spent more time worrying about who was in, who wasn’t.”
Kingston controlled the game by scoring in spurts.
Saige Colon’s 10 points paced (7-12) Minisink.
Down 3-0 to start, the Tigers went on a 9-0 run fueled by Harrell and Cook to take command.
Chaffin scored all of her points in the middle quarters and all in spurts. She tallied the final eight points of the first half to put her team up 28-12 at intermission. She outdid herself in the third, scoring nine in a row to close out the quarter. The capper was a 3-point field goal taken just a stride into the front court that hit all net at the buzzer.
The (13-6) Tigers, who finish the regular season at Newburgh Wednesday night, had contributions from everybody. Nine players registered a steal, while eight also had an assist. Cook had three assists. Nicole Spinelli led the team with three steals and Dorsey with eight rebounds.
“We got to rest a bunch of people that are going to be playing tomorrow night.” said Garner, who knows a loss to NFA would have the Tigers tumbling in the Section 9, Class AA seedings.
“It worked out. We got everybody in.” he said. “I rested kids that haven’t rested much.”
MINISINK VALLEY (35)—Tresch 0 7-10 7, Batule 3 1-1 7, Krish 0 0-2 0, Burke 2 0-0 , Stacklum 2 2-3 6, Oenga 0 0-0 0, Colon 4 2-5 10, Hanlon 0 0-0 0, Ketcham 0 0-0 0, Dewitt 0 0-0 0. Totals 11 12-21 35. KINGSTON (63)—Amato 1 1-2 4, Chaffin 4 7-10 17, Myers-McCarthy 2 0-0 4, Harrell 6 2-3 14, Klein 1 0-2 2, Spinelli 1 0-0 3, Dorsey 2 0-1 4, A. Cook 3 3-4 9, Burke 1 0-2 2, Diers 1 0-0 2, Herzog 0 0-0 0, Alonso 0 0-0 0, Santiago 0 0-0 0, R. Cook 1 0-0 2. Totals 23 13-24 63. Minisink Valley 5 7 11 12—35 Kingston 11 17 21 14—63 3-point field goals: Burke; Chaffin 2, Amato, Spinelli. Team records: Minisink Valley 7-12; Kingston 13-6.