{"id":2078,"date":"2011-03-04T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2011-03-04T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:06:15","slug":"ura-senior-hoops-set-for-thrilling-championship-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"URA Senior Hoops set for thrilling championship Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

High School URA Basketball Quarterfinals start at 6 p.m., with finals at 8 p.m. at Patton<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nBy Brett Ciancia<\/strong>, Correspondent, UnionvilleTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span>
\n\"\"<\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 March Madness comes to Unionville.<\/p>\n

This year, the Unionville Recreation Association experienced unprecedented interest in its High School Basketball league and has set the record for most teams with 15.\u00a0 Early March means its playoff time and as a result, the high school and surrounding community is catching URA Fever.<\/p>\n

Thursday night at Charles F. Patton Middle School, the eight remaining teams faced off in the single elimination quarterfinal playoff round to secure a spot in Friday\u2019s Final Four.<\/p>\n

In the first game, the 10-seed \u2018Block\/Caswell\u2019 gained an early lead over the 2-seed \u2018Taylor\/Jochums.\u2019\u00a0 After a 20-20 tie at halftime, the kelly green-clad Taylor\/Caswell team got its rhythm back and held their opponent scoreless in the third quarter while cruising to a 20 point win.<\/p>\n

Next up was the rematch of the 8-seed \u2018Piasecki\/Conover\u2019 and the 1-seed \u2018Ciancia\/Lopapa\u2019.\u00a0 The Ciancia\/Lopapa team won the regular season matchup by 8; however, this rematch was a different story.\u00a0 In the blink of an eye, the underdogs took a 12-1 lead thanks to three-point shooting by their player-coaches.\u00a0 After adjusting their defense, the \u2018Hawks\u2019 fought all the way back to tie the game at half.\u00a0 The Hawks needed a few late steals and a clutch 3-pointer by Senior Tyler Adair to secure a 41-39 victory.<\/p>\n

In the third game of the quadruple header, the 6-seed \u2018Kaiser\/Sax\u2019 took on the 3-seed \u2018Moss\/Firment\u2019 but were forced to play without Richard Kaiser due to a technical foul suspension in the previous round.\u00a0 Without Kaiser, the team chemistry just wasn\u2019t the same.\u00a0 Huston Firment hit deep threes and fellow seniors helped carry the team, the Pacers, to a surprisingly huge win by 15 points.<\/p>\n

The primetime game pitted the 5-seed \u2018Musser\/Carlino\u2019 against the 4-seed \u2018Wing\/Denning\u2019 and this game didn\u2019t fail to disappoint.\u00a0 With the regulation time ticking down, Zach Rigby hit a shot to tie the game and force overtime.\u00a0 Towards the end of the second overtime, in a tie ball game, Shawn Denning reached and was given his fifth and final foul.\u00a0 However, after a poor reaction to the call, a technical was given to Denning; Shane Murphy and Andrew Carlino hit clutch free throws to seal the game and earn a berth into Final Four Night.\u00a0 Yet another great finish\u2026just another day at the \u2018Association.<\/p>\n

Tonight should be an exciting triple header at Patton with the semifinals at 6:00 and 7:00 with the Championship to follow at 8:00.\u00a0 Matchups include: 6:00-Ciancia\/Lopapa vs. Musser\/Carlino; and 7:00-Moss\/Firment vs. Taylor\/Jochums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High School URA Basketball Quarterfinals start at 6 p.m., with finals at 8 p.m. at Patton By Brett Ciancia, Correspondent, UnionvilleTimes.com EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 March Madness comes to Unionville. This year, the Unionville Recreation Association experienced unprecedented interest in its High School Basketball league and has set the record for most teams with 15.\u00a0 Early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,1],"tags":[154,116,115],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-boys-basketball","tag-unionville-recreation-association","tag-ura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}