Millbrook varsity basketball stopped at semifinals

MILLBROOK — The Rhinebeck varsity boys basketball team upset favored Millbrook by one point and advanced to the Section IX Class C finals on Wednesday evening, March 3, in Millbrook.  After a measured first quarter with only nine points scored in total, Millbrook seemed it would be the likely winner by the end of the slow first half with the score Millbrook 18, Rhinebeck 15.  

The pace picked up in the second half with Millbrook juniors Evan Hurley and Peter Keenan trying to outscore Rhinebeck’s Benjamin Hoynes and Reed Fox.  With six minutes left in the game the score was tied 40 to 40.  

With two minutes left the score was tied 45 to 45. Coaches Adam Peek of Millbrook and David Aierstok of Rhinebeck stopped the clock with time-outs to talk strategy with their teams. With 30 seconds left to play Millbrook trailed Rhinebeck by 3 points.  The gym was eerily quiet as the Blazers’ Darnell Cummings took and missed a foul shot.

With 10 seconds left Keenan grabbed a rebound and scored to take the Blazers within one point of tying the game. With 6 seconds left, Millbrook missed their final chance to go to Section IX finals to end the game one point behind the Rhinebeck Hawks 48 to 49.

“What it came down to was Millbrook had the shot they wanted at the end to win it, but it just didn’t go in. It just rattled in and out and the game was over,â€� said Shawn Stoliker, a Millbrook athletic coach, who watched the game closely from the scorekeeper’s table. “Evan Hurley and Peter Keenan really stepped it up last night. Evan Hurley played the best game I have ever seen him play.â€�   

The top scorers of the game were all juniors and will play against each other again next year. Millbrook’s Keenan was the high scorer of the game with 18 points, and Hurley the second highest scorer of the game with 17. Rhinebeck’s Reed Fox had 14 points and Benjamin Hoynes had 11.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Hudson, Millbrook’s third seeded girls varsity basketball team was defeated by second seeded Tuxedo, 67 to 36 in the Section IX Class C girl’s semifinals. Trish McGrath was Millbrook’s high scorer with 13 points and Tuxedo’s Katie Sovak was the game’s high scorer with 16 points, including three 3-pointers.

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