{"id":7350,"date":"2012-02-25T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2012-02-25T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T14:26:46","slug":"piasecki-leads-team-second-win-in-ura-hoops-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=7350","title":{"rendered":"Piasecki leads team to second win in URA hoops tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brian Ladd<\/strong>, Special to UnionvilleTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Round 2 Action of the URA Boys High School March Madness proved once again to be exciting basketball.\u00a0 The playoff atmosphere has really turned the intensity up 2 notches as the boys are leaving it all out on the floor.\u00a0 The word is out and the bleachers are starting to fill up in the early rounds of the tournament \u2013 we just might have to find ourselves a larger venue as we move on in the tourney.<\/p>\n

Piasecki\/Willis 61, Piper\/Holcomb 54<\/strong> \u2013 After playing the night before and pulling out an emotional win where leader Chris \u201cC Pie\u201d Piasecki had to be picked up off the floor, it was a wonder if he could even get out of bed on Thursday.\u00a0 Well, give me some of what he\u2019s eating for breakfast because it\u2019s very clear that if you want to make it to the title game you are going to get served up a piece of the Pie in the process.\u00a0 Piasecki was money from downtown, riding 8 three pointers for a game high 32 points, while\u00a0 Eric Willis was the whipped cream on top of the Pie with 19 points of his own.\u00a0 Once again the deep Piper\/Holcomb squad saw scoring from practically the entire roster, but just couldn\u2019t find the answer to stop Piasecki.\u00a0 James Chapman had 13 and Riley Piper chipped in 12 in the loss.<\/p>\n

McGinnis\/Hissey 63, Letang\/Kelly 52<\/strong> \u2013 With the tourney high record set in the earlier matchup by neighbor Chris Piasecki, captain Trace McGinnis turned to the scorekeeper before the opening buzzer and stated \u201c32 isn\u2019t enough to be the high for the night.\u201d\u00a0 Finishing the regular season as the 1 seed carrying just one loss into the tourney, it appeared it was going to be a long night for the Purple People Eaters as the underdog 13 seed.\u00a0 But Stephen Rosenberg and Quin Savant said not so fast.\u00a0 Matching the 1 seed shot for shot in the first half, the McGinnis squad began to look worried but that\u2019s when Trace \u201cT Mac\u201d McGinnis took over, matching his neighbor with his own 32 points en route to the win.\u00a0 Jerry Rassias had 12 and Colin Biggs 9 for the winners.\u00a0 Stephen Rosenberg continues his torrid shooting with 17 points and Quin Savant 13 in the loss.<\/p>\n

Barnes\/Burlotos 56, Trout\/DeMatteis 43<\/strong> \u2013 With Trout\/DeMatteis facing the tough task of playing without one of their offensive leaders, the boys in gray were happy to see Big Game Hunter Conover stroll into the gym on Thursday night.\u00a0 Hunter decided he didn\u2019t want a Windowview seat for this matchup.\u00a0 The problem for the Gray team was that Tim Christopher got wind of a certain writer predicting a loss for the Blue team and that was all she wrote.\u00a0 Christopher threw down 22 points and played fabulous defense to stymie the Gray squad.\u00a0 Like a Fish out of water, they had trouble getting in synch all night.\u00a0 Hunter Conover contributed 13 points and Michael DeMatteis 12 in the loss.\u00a0 Dan McClaskey also had 10 in the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brian Ladd, Special to UnionvilleTimes.com EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 Round 2 Action of the URA Boys High School March Madness proved once again to be exciting basketball.\u00a0 The playoff atmosphere has really turned the intensity up 2 notches as the boys are leaving it all out on the floor.\u00a0 The word is out and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[154,110,115],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-boys-basketball","tag-playoffs","tag-ura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","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=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}