Panama’s Mandy Brink drives round a Hammond defender throughout Saturday morning’s NYSPHSAA Class D semifinal at Hudson Valley Neighborhood School’s McDonough Sports activities Advanced in Troy.
Photograph by Mike Body
Panama’s Kaitlyn Horton is defended by Hammond’s Sadie Sprabary throughout Saturday morning’s NYSPHSAA Class D semifinal at Hudson Valley Neighborhood School’s McDonough Sports activities Advanced in Troy.
Photograph by Mike Body
Hammond’s Landree Kenyon is defended by Panama’s Lilly Odell and Kaitlyn Horton throughout a NYSPHSAA Class D semifinal Saturday morning at Hudson Valley Neighborhood School’s McDonough Sports activities Advanced in Troy.
Photograph by Mike Body
Panama’s Mandy Brink drives round a Hammond defender throughout Saturday morning’s NYSPHSAA Class D semifinal at Hudson Valley Neighborhood School’s McDonough Sports activities Advanced in Troy.
Photograph by Mike Body
TROY – Panama had no reply for Ava Howie and Landree Kenyon on Saturday morning.
Howie, Hammond’s sophomore guard, scored 28 factors, grabbed 11 rebounds and handed out 4 assists, whereas Kenyon, the Pink Devils’ junior ahead, scored 25 factors, grabbed 10 rebounds, handed out six assists, picked up three steals and blocked two pictures because the Part X champions beat the Panthers 78-56 in a New York State Public Excessive Faculty Athletic Affiliation Class D semifinal at Hudson Valley Neighborhood School.
“We didn’t have a solution for (Kenyon) and after we did attempt to double down low, they kicked it out to (Howie),” Panama head coach Dennis Hinsdale mentioned. “(Howie) hit some 3s from the highest of the important thing. I watched 4 video games and he or she made perhaps 4 complete in 4 video games.”
Part X has grow to be a nemesis for the Panama women basketball program. From 2015-17, Heuvelton – led by three-time Class D Participant of the Yr Paige McCormick – ended the Panthers’ season on the McDonough Sports activities Advanced.
“I at all times mentioned after I left Clymer that I at all times wished to return again,” mentioned Hinsdale, who gained a state title because the Pirates’ head coach in 2010. ” … I bought my probability this 12 months, we simply couldn’t make it work. There’s no disgrace in dropping to that workforce. I’m pleased with my women. I assumed they gave me every thing they’d. They performed exhausting, however Hammond performed a little bit tougher.”
Panama’s Kaitlyn Horton is defended by Hammond’s Sadie Sprabary throughout Saturday morning’s NYSPHSAA Class D semifinal at Hudson Valley Neighborhood School’s McDonough Sports activities Advanced in Troy.
Photograph by Mike Body
On Saturday, Hammond went 35 of 64 (54.7%) from the sector, outrebounded the Panthers 41-19, and turned the ball over simply 5 occasions earlier than the Pink Devils went to their reserves late within the fourth quarter.
“On movie, they regarded gradual. They didn’t shoot like that,” Hinsdale mentioned. “I knew we’d have hassle on the boards, that was my greatest concern.”
Senior Mandy Brink gave all of it she had within the remaining sport of a stellar profession at Panama, scoring 26 factors whereas handing out 4 assists.
“I’m not going to guage her profession on one sport,” an emotional Hinsdale mentioned of Brink. “She’s a hell of an athlete. She nonetheless has my vote for Participant of the Yr in Western New York and New York state. … She mainly carried this workforce. She made teaching very easy.”
Hammond went up 11-2 with 1:49 left within the first quarter, however Panama was capable of survive with seven of the ultimate 9 factors of the interval, together with a banked 3-pointer by Brink simply earlier than the buzzer.
Hammond’s Landree Kenyon is defended by Panama’s Lilly Odell and Kaitlyn Horton throughout a NYSPHSAA Class D semifinal Saturday morning at Hudson Valley Neighborhood School’s McDonough Sports activities Advanced in Troy.
Photograph by Mike Body
However the Pink Devils – whose solely loss this season was to the Part X Class B champion Gouverneur – started to drag away within the second quarter, because of eight second-chance factors, and led 38-26 at halftime.
“I’m undecided the way you defend a fadeaway bounce shot. I give that lady loads of credit score … that’s one robust shot to make persistently,” Hinsdale mentioned of Kenyon, who scored 11 factors through the second quarter. “You would possibly be capable of get one out of seven or eight, however she shot it persistently. We didn’t have a solution for it.”
A 9-0 Hammond run to open the third quarter, together with 5 factors from Howie, made it 47-26 earlier than Panama sophomore Kaitlyn Horton stopped the run with a pair of free throws.
Brink twice made it a 16-point sport, first with a 3-pointer after which with an old style three-point play, however the sport was already getting away from the Panthers.
“I assumed we regarded awfully gradual,” Hinsdale mentioned. “I assumed we have been too reliant on Mandy.”
Howie scored 13 straight factors for her workforce close to the top of the third quarter as Hammond led by 22 getting into the ultimate eight minutes.
“In case you see what number of unfastened balls there have been, we didn’t get any of these,” Hinsdale mentioned. “One time I known as timeout and mentioned ‘We had 4 women laying on the ground and no one got here up with the ball.’ That’s coronary heart. Their hearts have been greater than ours at present.”
Now the Pink Devils must cope with Part IV champion Oxford Academy, which beat Part II’s Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons 75-54 in Saturday’s second semifinal.
The Pink Devils can be searching for their first state title since profitable back-to-back championships in 2007 and 2008.
“I assumed if we bought previous Hammond,” Hinsdale mentioned, “we’d have a extremely good shot in opposition to Oxford.”
NOTES: Panama shot 20 of 58 (34.5%) from the sector, together with 3 of 18 from 3-point vary, and turned the ball over six occasions. Junior Kylie Morgan had 11 factors and 6 rebounds, whereas Horton had 8 factors and 6 rebounds.
PANAMA (56)
Brink 9 5 26, Schauman 1 0 2, Morgan 4 3 11, Horton 2 4 8, Odell 3 0 6, Vary 1 0 2, Greene 0 1 1, Markham 0 0 0. Totals 20 13 56.
HAMMOND (78)
Cunningham 0 0 0, Sprabary 5 0 11, Manning 4 0 8, Kenyon 11 1 25, Howie 12 2 28, Woodcock 1 0 2, Vinch 2 0 4, Tulley 0 0 0, Jones 0 0 0, Downs 0 0 0. Totals 35 3 78.
3-point goals-Brink 3, Sprabary, Kenyon 2, Howie 2.
Panama 9 17 17 13 – 56
Hammond 13 25 27 13 – 78
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