LOCAL ROUNDUP: Hudson tops Greenville; Fernandez leads Cats

HUDSON — Hudson wrapped up its regular season schedule with a 67-60 Patroon Conference boys basketball victory over Greenville on Monday.

Hudson (13-3, 13-6) led 21-10 at the end of the first quarter, 30-27 at halftime and 43-40 through three quarters.

Dayquan Griffin was Hudson’s top scorer with 25 points. Isaiah Maines added 12 and Noah Hedgepeth and Caleb Romano nine apiece.

“It wasn’t our best offensive output,” Hudson coach Shawn Briscoe said. “We’ve been telling the guys all year long that at some point we’re going to need to play good enough defense for the defense to win us a game and that’s what we did today. We were able to get enough stops down the stretch that gave us that little separation t get up by 10 and eventually win by seven.

“Hopefully this will be something that kind of kickstarts us moving forward because now they understand that every night we’re not going to score well and we might need ur deefense to win us a game and that’s what happened today.”

JJ O’Connor led Greenville with 22 points. Damien Fiducia added 18 and is now just 16 points away from reaching the 1,000-point milestone for his career.

Both teams now await the Section II seeding meeting to see who and where they play next.

“It’s nice to end the (regular) season with a win,” Briscoe said. “We’ve been playing well the last few games so, hopefully, that will help carry us into next week. We’ll see where we get seeded. You have to beat everybody to win s regardless of where you’re seeded you have to beat everybody in front of you to be the last team standing.

Briscoe wasn’t what to expect in terms of seeding position, but expects a tought battle no matter who they have to play.

“It’s loaded at the top so I’m not really sure how the seeds are ging to go,” Briscoe said. “You have basically eight teams that have five losses or less from the various different leagues, so seeding is going to be tough, trying to figure out where everyone is supposed to be.

“I think the top eight are going to be tough to figure out and then everyone else will kind of fall into place. We have a week to prepare, and hopefully we’ll be ready.”

GREENVILLE (60): Fiducia 6-3-18, Nicosia 3-1-7, Benning 3-0-6, Makely 1-0-2, Biernacki 2-1-5, O’Connor 10-0-22. Totals 25-5-60.

3-pointers: Fiducia 3, O’Connor 2.

HUDSON (67): Hedgepeth 3-2-9, Maines 5-2-12, Anderson 1-4-6, Griffin 11-1-25, Romano 3-1-9, Gorman 1-2-4, Johnson 1-0-2. Totals 25-12-67.

3-pointers: Romano 2, Griffin 2, Hedgepeth.

Catskill 93, Cohoes 51

COHOES — In a game that featured two of the top talents in Section II going head-to-head, Catskill posted a 93-51 victory over Cohoes in Monday’s non-league boys basketball victory.

Catskill’s Lavon Fernandez came into the contest averaging 24.5 points per game, while Cohoes’ outstanding freshman Royal Brown came in averaging a shade under 25. When all was said and done, Fernandez dropped 37 and Brown was held to 11.

Fernandez had plenty of help from his teammates, including Leviticus Johnson, who had 16 points, DeVon Haye added 12 and Bervonis Donely 10.

Troy Snyder added 10 points to Cohoes’ cause.

The Cats built quarterly leads of 22-10, 54-29 and 75-43.

“We have been working real hard to improve our defense and energy level,” Catskill coach Doug Lampman said. “Today’s game showed much of our hard work is paying off. Cohoes has some nice scorers that we totally took away their game.

“We saw some great unselfish play from our role players. When Ronnelle, Kellen, Cameron and Bervonis step up like they did tonight, couple that with our starters — the coaches feel good.”

CATSKILL (93): Donely 5-0-10, Fernandez 13-10-37, Gibbs 3-0-6, Haye 5-1-12, Johnson 6-3-16, Kent 1-0-2, Lowe-Scott 3-0-8, McEacher 1-0-2. Totals 37-14-93.

3-pointers: Lowe-Scott 2, Johnson, Haye, Fernandez.

COHOES (51): Brown 3-4-11, Byron 2-0-6, Hicks 1-0-3, LaSure 2-0-5, Lester 3-0-7, Mowers 3-0-6, Snyder 3-2-10, Vertefeuille 1-0-3. Totals 18-6-51.

3-pointers: Byron 2, Snyder 2, Vertefeuille, Lester, LaSure, Hicks, Brown.

Duanesburg 63, Germantown 51

DUANESBURG — Zack Gamache recorded a double-double with 23 points and 15 rebounds to lead Duanesburg to a 63-51 non-league boys basketball victory over Germantown on Monday.

Duanesburg got off to a fast start, taking a 17-4 lead after one quarter.were up 27-14 at halftime and 43-27 after three quarters of play.

Jakob Stahl added 13 points for the Eagles. Matt Coons had 11.

Robbie Eaton and Bryan Bathrick each had 13 points for the Clippers.

GERMANTOWN (51): Hoffman 1-0-3, Eaton 5-0-13, Mayr 3-2-9, Bathrick 5-0-13, Anderson 2-1-5, Rifenburgh 2-0-4, McKinney 1-2-4. Totals 19-5-51.

3-pointers: Bathrick 3, Eaton 3, Hoffman, Mayr.

DUANESBURG (63): Drescher 3-2-8, Gamache 10-3-23, Coons 4-2-11, Burkhardt 2-2-7, O’Hanlon 0-1-1, Stahl 6-0-13. Totals 25-10-63.

3-pointers: Coons 2, Burkhardt.

Catskill 55, Voorhesville 30

CATSKILL — Janay Brantley scored 30 points to highlight Catskill’s 55-30 non-league girls basketball victory over Voorheesville on Monday.

Hannah Konsul had 10 points for the Cats. Aizlyn O’Connell chipped in with eight.

JEnny Bogart’s nine points topped Voorheesville.

VOORHEESVILLE (30): Bogart 4-0-9, Bogdany 2-0-4, Gifford 1-0-2, Morris 2-0-4, Romansky 1-0-2, Thayer 1-0-2, Whalen 1-0-2, Zanello 2-0-5. Totals 14-0-30.

3-pointers: Bogart, Zanello.

CATSKILL (55): Brantley 13-2-30, Konsul 3-4-10, Leipman 1-1-3, O’Connell 4-0-8, Salierno 1-2-4. Totals 22-9-55.

3-pointers: Brantley 2.