ESG scholastic team finalized tomorrow
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I’m hoping to scoot over to Manhattanville tomorrow night for the scholastic team’s scrimmage against the Westchester Hawks. The scholastic team will be finalized after tomorrow, when the roster will be trimmed to 10.
From what I hear, it sounds like North Rockland’s Alaina Walker has starred so far. That’s not much of a surprise. I always thought Walker was one of the most talented players in the section and that with a little assertiveness she’d be one of the toughest players in the section to stop.
Right now, the team has played Walker together in the backcourt with Woodlands’ Porsha Postell and then had Haldane’s Brittany Shields, North Rockland’s Mary Abrams, and Burke Catholic’s Emily Stallings in the frontcourt. John Jay’s Caitlyn Moran has been in the backcourt rotation as well.
Frankly, I think the frontcourt will determine how well Hudson Valley does at the Games next month. The backcourt will be nearly impossible to stop, with Moran’s ability to shoot and Walker and Postell’s size and versatility.
Hudson Valley will face the Westchester Hawks tomorrow…the same team with Mount Vernon’s Nadia Duncan and White Plains’ Angelei Aguirre, among others. It should provide a good gauge for the scholastic team and determine how much further it has to go before the Games tip off in late July.
If I get there tomorrow, I’ll check in with some thoughts.
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on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 at 7:21 pm by Josh Thomson. 
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of 2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting, Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University, where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in history.
Hey Josh, sorry to put this under the ESG blog but there’s no other way to get a general comment posted. Congratulations to all thirteen players!
Looks like the rumors concerning players moving from school to school (both private to private and public to private)are starting to become reality. Ask your sources in New Rochelle and Rockland for confirmation on some players.
I understand Section 1 does not have control over teams whose players jump from one private school to another private school as long as the team does not play in the section. As for those private school teams that do play in Section 1, I wonder if those schools would have the integrity to require the transferring players to sit out a year. Then again that might be too much to ask, that our “Friends and Neighbors” adhere to the same restrictions that the public schools in Section 1 must abide by.