Day 2 at the Slam Dunk: Mount Vernon rolls to final
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- December
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Real quick: Mount Vernon beat Jamesville-DeWitt handily tonight, 63-36, behind 23 points and 12 rebounds from Nadia Duncan and 18 points and three assists from Taylor Palmer. Duncan dominated with her athleticism, as anyone in attendance could tell you.
In the other semifinal, North Rockland lost to Jamestown 75-69. Mary Abrams had 23 points and 18 rebounds, while Jameston’s Nikki Frederickson scored 31 points. It was the second-highest individual-game total by a female in Slam Dunk history.
If you were there, feel free to talk about the action here. Should be a high-scoring game tomorrow but most of the people I spoke to like Mount Vernon to win.
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on Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 9:50 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.
Mount Vernon!!
Looked solid, great coaching, nice hustle, AWFUL Fans!
One woman sitting on the baseline closest to the entrance was yelling the dumbest and meanest things. She was a mom of a player on the Mount Vernon team I believe. She was late 30s probably.
She called the Jamesville players “Losers” as they headed to the halftime break. Then said “yea I said it” as I looked at her.
She also was mocking Jamesville players for “look she missed again, and again”
This woman was a heavyset woman holding a baby, she was wearing a pink sweater. She was rude, and a poor example of a fan at a HS girls basketball game.
Hopefully the MV coach speaks to the Parents of her team and asks them to act APPROPRIATE at the games, as they are Mount Vernon’s ONLY weakspot!!!!!
I was embaressed as a Section I fan and a Westchester resident.
Mount vernon-65 Jamestown-58 put it in the books. MVP’S Palmer and duncan.
Joe…......sounds like an atypical fan that got a bit out of control and the county center security should have handled it if what you said was real. Coach Moore should address this issue and might have already several times this season. A coach can only do so much.
Some fans,however, get away with saying nasty things to the refs and players and the chaperones look the other way because they are intimidated. What I have a hard time with is when these same chaperones/security
people go after a regular fan that makes simple comments during the heat of the battle without using curse words or derogatory statements toward anyone. Sometimes the chaperones act tough with this type of fan and often throw them out of the gym while the other fan gets away with whatever.
These same chaperones/security are simply cowardly because they know that the latter fan will adhere to their requests while the fan you described in your comments might provoke a riot or at the very least, a fist fight.
Nevertheless, nice comments all around ….hope MV wins big!
Fans like that make you crazy. But you do have to give credit to the Mount Vernon kid’s for the way they conduct themselves. No trash talking, no taunting, no complaining to the refs, they will even help an opponent up off the floor. After the game the first thing they do is run up to the officials, shake their hands and thank them. I also love the way they play, they leave it all out on the court. Add Palmer’s offense, to that of Duncan and Mercer and you have a legitimate triple threat, inside and outside. No team in the section can put three players on the court at one time as good as them. Defensively they come at you in waves, their role players are athletic and tenacious and they have a lot of them.
I loved watching Jamestown play, they are as advertised. Run, run, run, shoot,shoot, shoot, press,press, press, nonstop. They are constantly attacking, swarming to the ball and forcing their opponent into mistakes. And they never saw a shot they didn’t like. It was surprising with their lack of size, how many points they score in the paint. The problem they will have is Mount Vernon is far more athletic and just as deep. This will be a fun game to watch.
Yea the MV girls are a class Act!!!!
Glad they won, just one bad apple ruins it
We apologize for any fans that may have been over exuberant and disrespectful. It will be addressed… My players and I do take pride in representing MV with quality. I can not control adults… but will do my best to address it. Thanks for the heads up…
Hopefully the fans realize the kids are doing their best to represent MV in the best possible manner, on and off the court. We need all of our fans and appreciate their presence. Please don’t let one incident impact who we are, as there were many fans there who handled themselves well. Often times people try to define MV by one incident… but we are much more than that.
Jamestown and Jamesville Dewitt both represented their sections well and we commend them for their hard work. It was a great tournament run by Lou Demello and we thank him for the invite.
Come on everyone… let’s cheer and support all of our kids respectfully. It is only December and there are many more games to go and anything can happen.
Every coach out there knows that we do more than just coach anyway. We take the good with the bad…. Again please accept our apology….
Coach Patrice Moore
WPfan I know you didn’t mean it this way but your comments are sideways racism. Why should the MV girls be applauded for the way they conduct themselves? For “No trash talking, no taunting, no complaining to the refs”? For helping an opponent up off the floor? That is the racism of low expectations and again I know you had the best intentions and didn’t at all mean to be hurtful. This is the kind of institutional racism that people don’t even think about.
Why should we applaud the Mount Vernon girls? Because they are black and from the ghetto? Should we applaud the Scarsdale girls when they help an opponent up off the floor? How about the Horace Greeley players four of whom are black? Do we expect more because they grew up in Chappaqua? When you think about it isn’t it hurtful to the kids of Mount Vernon or other inner city communities with large black and Latino populations when we applaud them for things we expect from kids in other communities?
In my work I have come across kids from all ethnicities, races and social strata and at their core they are all the same. I put the same expectations on inner city kids as I do on suburban kids. The kids that most want the bar raised are usually the inner city kids because no one has ever done that for them.
To the contrary Vic, I have seen way to much unsporstman like behavior in high school sports, and it happens every where, in every community, just read the papers. it’s refreshing to see a team, any team, make a point of doing things the right way. I’m sorry you took it the wrong way.
Hey vic maybe we can get you to talk to the PEOPLE that make the decisions on the games played at playoff time. Every year they claim that for security reasons Mount Vernon has to play in the day and they always make sure mount vernon boys play during work time in their first game and at 12 on championship day(sunday).