Thursday, December 23, 2010

BLA Dorchester footage

Dorchester at Boston Latin Academy

Gametime once again...Dorchester High School paid a visit to the Dragon Dome as I call it now. Warming up to that Wiz Khalifa-Black and yellow. That is exactly what it was. Black and yellow all over the court. It was a low scoring first quarter. Out blazing in the 2nd came the Dragons led by Jonathan Deane, they had no answer for him. And when it wasn't him it was CJ Burke. Matt Glora would hit a couple long range shots to get them going even more. He would finish with 7. Deane was almost perfect from the strip in that quarter hitting 3 of 4 from the line. They couldn't stop trying to foul him from the start of the 2nd. BLA outrebounded Dorchester thru the entire game but here come the Bears. Dexter Mathurian, and Ronnie Jackson would combine for 10 pts in the paint. The trooper for them was guard Darius Bass who put up 15 off the bench. The strike back looked interesting but did not stagger the Dragons at all who only put more of a dent into the lead by halftime. So here we go into the 3rd with a 25-13 BLA lead, with the same from Burke who showed alot of inside dominance drawing fouls. Dorchester made an awkward move subbing in a smaller but more powerful set which still had no answer for the inside height of BLA. In the 4th, Kwamaine Lane would step up for Latin and continue to bring the fire dropping 8 of his 10 in the last quarter. Burke again would give more of the same and at this point all the Bears could do was trade shot for shot. In the end they would not stand the test as BLA finished the 2nd semester of school with a record of 2-2. Even though they are one of the few teams that will not make a presence in a Christmas tournament this year they take an even record to Burke High School next week. Images from the game including live game film and a post game interview will be put up in the next post. Here are your box score and game stats.



1st 2nd 3rd 4th Final

BLA 8 17 11 18 54

DOR 2 11 10 14 37





BLA C.Burke-17 J. Deane-12 K. Lane-10 M. Glora-7 E. Williamson-6 D. Riley-2



DOR D. Bass-15 D.Mathurian-5 R. Jackson-5 D. Boyd-4 J. Langston-3 D. Dixon-3

A. Engebe-2

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Brighton at Burke

Another day of snow outside! Another day of basketball inside. It's gametime. Tonight it was the Bulldogs of Burke High hosting the Brighton Bengals. The undefeated Bengals came in real confident even though their coach knew the challenge ahead of them. Coach Hugh Coleman of Brighton said, "Burke will be our first real challenge because they actually have a little talent." He wasn't joking, in the first half the struggle didn't seem evident as the Bengals took a 5 point lead to end the first half. Alot of turnovers for them would halt their run in the 3rd quarter. Between traveling calls and fouls, the turnover ratio looked rough. It showed to be perfct timing as Burke hit 4 3s in the 3rd. But as the 4th started, so did the Bengals who would pull away led by senior guard Kevon Young who was the game's leading scorer with 26 points. Fellow guard and BLA transfer Theo Orihbahor would add to the insult with 11 of his own points. Both Edward Toney and Jerard Mayes would dominate down low also posting 12 and 18 respectively. The only way to stay in it for the Burke was their forward, James Nelson who put up 12 points in the 4th, he had an interesting inside out game. He wasone of the only two to post double digit points for the Bulldogs. They could have had a 3rd if their point guard threat, Jahkari Christopher hadn't fouled out early that same quarter. He would finish with 9. When the clock expired, Brighton had finished off another foe as they beat Burke 78-67. Kevon Young had this to say after the game. "It was a tough win and we have to work on some stuff." Edward Toney and his teammate Young are both seniors and definitely looking forward to state this year. Here is your box score and point totals for the night live from Grove Hall Community Center.

1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
Brighton 15 15 20 28 78
Burke 8 17 24 16 67



Brighton K. Young-26 J. Mayes-18 E. Toney-12 T. Orihbahor-11 M. James-6 D. Edwards-3
R. Mack-2

Burke J. Nelson-20 C. Nelson-12 J. Christopher-9 D. James-6 P. Ricketts-6 J. Tran-5
N. Jaime-5 B. Lim-4




NEXT STOP- DORCHESTER AT BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY 12/23

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

START IT UP!!!

Hey, its ya boy CrunkDub back in the building. It's been a little bit since I have been on here. But I had to come back and get it poppin'. What better way then to see a doubleheader in one day! Nice and slow is going to be my speed for the next few weeks since your boy is in a cast. That's what you get when you go up for a 2 handed layup and come down on someone's foot. This gives me an opportunity to check out some games. I am excited about this season. Looking for some all stars all around the city. I have some favorites and some friends I can't wait to see in action. There's Akosa M. over in C-Town, there is Samir M. over at New Mission, and upcoming all star hopeful Kharee H. who is basically repping MP up there by himself as tall as he is. Then we have returnrs like Charlie N. who was at Brighton but has rumored to have transferred to the D4 state champs who recently turned D2. They should be ok seeing as they are even taller then last year. But let's move straight into the action. Doubleheader for tonight was interesting. Slaughters in both games. First I went to Boston Latin Academy, home of the Dragons, and watched as they hosted the Panthers of Fenway High. Same story it seems as last year. BLA put a beating on them and rose victorious 57-29. The only 2 seeming to show promise for the Panthers were the 2 sophomore starters. Phillip Justyn and Ricky Smith assisted by senior Curtis Adger had decent games in the scoring and assist categories once the second half came. But it wasn't enough. The Dragons led by junior guard Jonathan Deane and junior forward CJ Burke took over. here is a breakdown of the score first by team totals in quarters. The the box score.

1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
BLA 8 22 16 15 57
Fenway 5 0 8 16 29

BLA Burke-9 Riley-8 Deane-7 Williams-7 Lane-6 White-5 Champagnie-5 Miller-4
Saunders-4 Emmanuel-2

Fenway Adger-11 Justyn-10 Smith-4 Tyrhe-2 Jones-2

Then I finished up the night at the defending city champions. Usually when you hear a team coming out of town you say oh....those dudes probably big and go dumb hard. You start thinking the inner city squads will lose. That was not the case tonight. Roxbury represented tonight. Madison Park (defending Boston City Champions and MASS D1 North Sectional Champions) played host to out-of-state Mt. Pleasant (RI). MP vs MP if you will. Massachusetts won that battle. Big bad senior Kharee Hudson led them with 22 points as the Cardinals defeated the Kilties 66-40. They are off to a 2-1 start as they head into a Christmas tourney.

1st 2nd 3rd 4th F
MP(MA) 18 15 14 19 66
MP(RI) 13 13 8 6 40

Madison Park Hudson-22 Tyler-11 Turner-9 Matthews-9 Murray-7 Baez-5 Lawladonnie-2
Still-1

Mt.Pleasant (RI) Laurent-12 Williams-8 Akinsulure-7 Dale-4 Beckford-3 Monteiro-2
Stewart-2 Morierra-2

That concludes the first night of my return to the sports blog known as CrunkDub Hoops. For high school boys basketball, I am ready to see some new and exciting games this season when time allows. I loved that warmup song they played today at BLA. This is CrunkDub signing off, get ready to START IT UP!!!