Tigers and Storm advance to consolation semifinals
The Ridley Tigers wouldn’t miss playing in the 60th Annual Standard High School Basketball Tournament.
“I love being in this tournament and I feel that it is important that we are in it every year. We are always happy to be a part of it,” Ridley head coach Josh Doan said Tuesday, after the Tigers defeated the St. Catharines Collegiate Saints 77-36 in The Standard consolation quarter-finals at Saint Francis. “We are excited to be a part of it and we are happy to have a home game on Thursday. We are pretty excited about that too.”
Ridley will play host to the consolation semifinals at 3 and 4:30 p.m. Thursday and the championship semifinals at 6 and 7:30 p.m.
Ridley rebounded from an 81-74 opening loss to Blessed Trinity by taking care of business against a hard-working Collegiate squad.
Doan’s squad can score but needs to get better at the defensive end.
“We break 70 (points) quite often in a 32-minute game which is pretty good but we are still working on that team chemistry and defence always comes second,” he said. “For a new team with four new starters and a bunch of Grade 9s and Grade 10s, we are coming along but we still have a long way to go and we are going to get tested even more on Thursday. We will need to rise to the occasion.”
STATS PACK
Tigers 77 Saints 36
Cat’s Caboose Player of the Game: Ridley’s Luka Jankovic with nine points.
Boston Pizza Player of the Game: Collegiate’s Aerfate Rehemutula with three points.
For the Ridley College Tigers: Amr Fayed 12, Parker Emanoilidis 11, Jankovic 9, Nick Nymbilli 9, David Ekenta-Ifeanyi 6, Michael Creglia 6, Harry Hou 6, Kevin 6, Felix Hadzic 5, Pranav Wadhawan 4, Seun Martins 2,
For the St. Catharines Collegiate Saints: Sean Hill 23, Kadmiel Patrong 7, Rehemutula 3, Kevin Gumiran 3.
STORM 58 COUGARS 52
Cat’s Caboose Player of the Game Jeremy Talsma netted 21 points Tuesday at Sir Winston Churchill to lead the Smithville Christian Storm to a 58-52 victory over the Centennial Cougars in the consolation quarter-finals of The Standard tourney.
Also scoring for the 14th-seeded Storm were Silas Breukelman 11, Joseph Attia 9, Christopher Nyakabasa 7, Cole Wiersma 4, Levi Dekker 4 and David Xie 2
Timi Ijaodola was named the Boston Pizza Player of the Game after netting 21 points for Centennial.
Also scoring for the Cougars were Nate Perna 8, Joel McDede 8, Marco Reyes 8, Callum Brown 4, Elliot Slack 4 and Colbey DesRoches 2.
