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12 Thursday, February 9, 1989 Courier-Journal Sports McQuaid alive and well; ND gears for post-season By Richard A. Kiley To steal a line from Mark Twain, reports of the. \death\ of the boys' varsity basketball team at McQuaid Jesuit High School have been grea- tly exaggerated. Just ask Aquinas and East High. The Knights turned Ijack Aquinas' upset bid last Friday, Feb. 3, in a game that saw McQuaid shoot a dismal 27 percent from the field. Earlier in the week against East, McQuaid — especially Jay Moore ^-could hardly miss, as the Knights han- ded the Orientals, only their third setback of the season. McQuaid (6-3 league, 11 -6 overall) is not the team it w.as last winter —then again, nobody expected! them to be — but Joe Marchese's club proved last week that the defending state cham- pions won't go down without a fight. \A lotjof people don't realize that so many of our gamfes early on were away,\ said Mar- chese, whose team lost at home to Franklin in December before dropping an away game to East High. During Christmas break the Knights traveled jto Florida where they lost two games during the invitation^only Kingdom of the Sun tournament. McQuaid's other two losses came V/ McQuaid's Jay Moore gets a hand on a shot by Aquinas' Alcindor Coleman as the Aquinas center drives to the basket. again to Franklin and then to Edison Tech, but the Knights were without star center Drew Henderson against the Engineers. \People look at the record and think we're having a bad ye^r,\ Marchese continued. \Six losses looks like a lot, but you've got to look at who we've played. I don't know how far we can go in the sectionals, but previous years have shown that anything can happen.'' Anything can and usually does happen when two City-Catholic League teams meet as well. Aquinas, which took McQuaid into overtime last December before eventually losing, led 42-39 with with two minutes left before Wade took matters into his own hands. The senior guard completed a one-and-one with :26 remaining to give the Knights a 44-42 lead, and then converted two more free throws with :02 left to ice McQuaid's 46-42 win. . Wade ended up with 17 points, eight of which came in the final three minutes. Alcindor Coleman led Aquinas with 13 points. The Knights had an easier time against me visiting Orientals on Tuesday, Jan. 31, winning the non-league encounter 64-54. Jay Moore was a dominating force for the Knights, pouring in 18 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. Henderson played bis typical game, finishing with 16 points, IS rebounds and eight blocked shots. The win avenged a 97-76 loss to the Orientals earlier in the season. \We were humiliated in that game; we were down 28-11 early and never really recovered,\ Marchese said. \It was,like we got sucker punched and it was over.'' The key to last week's game against East was Moore, who helped the Knights jump out to a big lead. McQuaid led 34-20 at the half and bal- looned the margin to 54-38 in the fourth quar- ter. That enabled the Knights to play an exten- ded zone defense and contest many Oriental shots. \Jay Moore had a great game for us,\ Mar- chess said. \He's been working himself into the lineup ever since the Florida trip.'' McQuaid was scheduled to close out the regu- lar season with a home game against Cardinal Mooney on Wednesday, Feb. 8. The Knights are in line for a No. 6 seed, putting them in the same bracket with possible-No. 2 East (10-1, 15-3) and likely-No. 3 Rush-Henrietta (15-3). Although it sounds like a tough bracket, McQuaid would probably prefer that one to the bracket consisting of No. 1 Webster (17-2), No. 4 Fajrport (16-3) and No. 5 Franklin (15-3). Official bids are due out this week. In City-Catholic League action from last Fri- day night, Cardinal Mooney edged Bishop Kearney, 60-50, in a game played at Mooney. Both teams are now 8-10 for the season. Mike McGwin (29 points) and Tim Burgmas- ter (20 points) combined for 49 of Mooney's points. Seven of McGwin's points came hi the Heidt leading nation in scoring Susan Heidt, a junior forward with the 14-1 St. John Fisher Lady Cardinals, leads the nation in scoring average, according to statistics in the latest issue of NCAA News. Heidt held the top spot among Division HI women's basketball players, with an average of 25.1 points per game. She also placed fifth in field-goal) percentage (61 percent), and 19th in \ free-throw percentage (82 percent). Not only is Heidt leading the Fisher women's team in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals, but she also has been twice named Player of the Week by H the Eastern College Athletic Confer- ence. . *• The ECAC, which is the nation's largest ath- letic conference, this week named Heidt to its weekly honor roll after she collected 94 fx>ints, 31 rebounds and 19 assists over four games. Exciting Eli Fourteen Nobel-Prize winners have been as^ sociated with Yale University throughout its history, but only one Ivy League tide in women's basketball (1978-79). The gap could be narrowed this year, thanks in large part to 5-6 senior guard Anne Peacock, f a native of Rochester and a former standout in basketball, soccer and softball at Our Lady oj Mercy High School. Peacock is one of four returning starters could lead the Yale women to their first league tide in a decade. The Elis came within eight points of the title last year, losing four league games by tiiree points or less and finishing 13-13, 7-7 in league Play- Peacock led the Ivy League in assists last year with 76 in 14 games, 11 short of the league re- cord. She averaged 5.5 assists per game over- all, smashing the Yale season record with 142. She needs just 80 this season to top the career mark. I \Anne sets the tone, both offensively and de- fensively,\ coach Diann Nestel said. \She's our coach on the floor.'' At Mercy, Peacock captained the Monarchs to the sectional tide in 1984-85. She was an all- county and all-state pick in basketball, as well as All Private-Parochial League and team MVP in soccer and softball. Off the court, Peacock majors in American studies with a concentration in environmental studies. Sumner continues campaign of record-setting performances McQuaid senior Brad Sumner continued his string of record-setting indoor track r^rforman- ces Saturday, Jan. 28, when he won two indivi- dual races and helped the Knights' 3,200-meter relay to a state-best time at the West Point Invi- tational. Sumner broke Section 5 records previously owned by Dave and Tom Warm, brothers who' ran for McQuaid in the early and mid-1980's. Sumner shattered Dave Warm's 1985 mark with a time of 1 minute, 58.22 seconds in the 800, before winning the 1,500 in 4:02.86. His performance in die 1,500 broke Tom Warm's 1982 record by nearly three seconds. Sumner teamed up with Mickey Stone, Jason. Fahy and Scott Romanowski to win the 3,200. relay in 8:00.59, which is die fastest time in die state this year. Linda Dow Hayes/Courier-Journal Coming up from behind Aquinas' Paul Kucewicz is Reggie Wade of McQuaid, who at- tempts to block Kucewicz's shot. The two teams met Friday night, Feb. 3\ with McQuaid pulling ahead in the final seconds to win* 46-42. third quarter, when Ed Nietopski's Cards built Sales had no trouble with either team die first on a 27-25 halftime lead. Mike RufFs Kings beat Geneseo, 75-64, in a non-league game played at Kearney on Tues- day, Jan. 31. | Kearney, which roared to an 18jpoint lead in die second quarter, led 37^-25 at th£ half. The Blue Devils pulled to within diree points as the third quarter drew to a close, but the Kings were able to squelch the comeback bid in the fourth quarter, as Bill Tehan scored eight of his team- high 15 points. Kearney was scheduled to close out the regu- lar season against Irondequoit on Tuesday, Feb. 7. In another non-league game last week, host Rush-Henrietta ripped Cardinal Mooney, 74-55, on Wednesday, Feb}. 1. McGwin had 20 points for Mooney. OVER IN CLASS C, Geneva DeSales (8^6 league, 11-7 overall) contir ued its up-and-down campaign with a rout of Qananda and a dis- appointing loss against Naples in Finger Lakes West competition. DeSales — which hasn't won at Naples in four years — led the host Big Green by 14 points, 41-27, at the half. The Saints could not maintain their advantage in the second half, however, as Rob McFadden and Pedro Rojas got into foul trouble, and Naples switched from a man-to-man defense to a trapping zone. The Big Green chipped a way at DeSales' lead in die third quarter, pulling to within six, 53-47, after three quarters. Naples then outscored the Saints, 22-11, in the final period to notch the come-from-behind win. DeSales had 19 turnovers to Naples' 12. Chris Ike led die Saints with 13 points. McFadden and Jeff Taney had 11 points each. The game had originally been scheduled for Friday, Feb. 3, but was postponed due to heavy snow in die Finger Lakes area. Against visiting Gananda on Wednesday, Feb.. 1, die Saints doubled Up the Blue Panthers 78-39. DeSales led 14-9 aiter one quarter, but increased die margin to 31-20 at die half. The Saints led 57-30 heading into die final quarter. McFadden paced DeSales with 20 points. Peter Parshall contributed 14. The Saints close out ~ die regular season against Dundee and Romulus this week. De- time around this season, defeating Dundee 74-46 and Romulus 87-52. Alvaro is hoping bis team can pick up some momentum for me sec- tional tournament, as his Saints face such possi- ble opponents as Prattsburg, Greenwood, Rush- ford and Wyoming. OVER IN SECTION 4 Class C, Elmira No- tre Dame is coming off two solid games, even mough Mike Johnston's Crusaders (2-9, 7-12) only have one win to show for it. Against host Elmira Free Academy (9-2, 13-6 overall) on Friday. Feb. 3, the Crusaders led after tiiree quarters, but eventually fell, 62-57. The key turn of events came wim about a minute left on die clock, when Notre Dame's sophomore point guard, Brian Sheehan, had to leave the game after taking an inadvertent el- bow in die face. ND led by one at die time, but EFA was able to pull out die win. ND had led 46-43 heading into die fourth quarter. The game was tied, 28-28, at the half. Aldiough his team came up short, Johnston was pleased with die effort —especially defen- sively. \We mixed our defenses up more than we had all year,\ said Johnston, whose club-lost to EFA, 77-55, earlier in the season. \We got the ball to the right people this time. Going over to their court and playing tfiem so tough is going to give us a lift.\ Geoff Woodworth led ND with. 17 points. Bob Grosvenor and Sheehan had 13 and 12 points respectively. Against visiting Corning West on Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Crusaders pulled out a 74-73 win. The Crusaders survived a late scoring run by CW, which trailed by six points with a minute left. Sheehan led ND with 22 points. Woodworth had 18 and Mike Bennett had 16 for me Cru- saders. Seedings for die sectionals were due out Wednesday, and Johnston believes his team is in die right state of mind to make, a run for the ti- de. \We've had to come ready to play every single night this season, and that's what you have to do in the sectionals,\ he said. The top seed in Class C is likely to be Whit- ney Point, which is a perfect 19-0 tiiis season.
