Westborough Recreation League basketball update

Standings as of Sunday, Feb. 14

Submitted by Westborough Recreation Department

Jan 31 Results

Chik-Fil-A (Hillier) 54 Bistro 57(Duckett) 52
This game went down to the wire tied and had to be decided in OT. Chik Fil A ran up a 11 point lead early in the 3rd quarter but Bistro 57 fought back to take a 6 point lead in the fourth. However a well rounded effort by Chik Fil A was able to hold off the strong play of Bistro’s 2 key players to take an OT win 54-52. Standouts for Bistro 57 were Barry with 26 points including a late game NBA style 3 pointer to get within 2 points, and Duckett with 22 points from both inside and outside. Chik Fil A was led by Rodenbush with 5 steals and 14 points, including 2 free throws in the 4th quarter and 4 free throws in OT. Horsfall with 13 points and Komari with 10 points.

Smook (Jane/Latimer): 62 WHOP (Leong/O’Toole) 43
Team Smook (Jané/Latimer) scooted out to a quick early lead and held on to beat Westboro House of Pizza (Leong/O’Toole) 62-43. Smook combined a high powered fast break offense with a dazzling display of long range shooting, including nine 3-pointers from five different players. For Smook, Eric Latimer led all scorers with 19 points featuring some magical drives to the hoop, while Matt Jané added 17 points including four 3-pointers. In all, eight different players scored for Team Smook. For Westboro House of Pizza, Aidan Burke led the scoring with 15 points, including two 3-pointers while Max Weidhaas chipped in with 14 points featuring his inside power game.

Car Wash (Macelhaney) 55 Boroughs Med (Priest) 51
The Sunday tilt between Car Wash and Boroughs Medical went to the Car Wash 55-51 in a very competitive battle between two 2-2 teams on Sunday. Medical opened fast with cat like quickness from Collin Priest and Will Kelley and strong support from their two bigs, Charlie Katz and Justin Gonzalez. They raced out to an early 9-4 lead as the Car Wash continued their Sunday morning first quarter doldrums. Ultimately behind its bigs of Arya Murthi and Julian Bosch, the Car Wash cut the lead to 13-11 Medical after one. Both teams pounded the ball inside and the ref whistles were flying and each team went to the charity stripe 11 times in quarter 2, and the half ended 27-24 Car Wash. Bosch went off in quarter three, and with Alan Dubrovsky connecting for his 5 pts in the quarter, it looked like the Car Wash would soak Medical down the drain as they led 43-34 entering quarter four. Alas, Collin Priest and Co scrapped and clawed the entire fourth quarter with frantic defense and cut the lead to 3 with a minute to go, but ultimately Car Wash hung on for a hard fought 55-51 battle. Priest led Medical (2-3) with 22 along with Gonzalez’ 14 point contribution. For Car Wash (3-2), Bosch led all scorers with 23 and Trevor McNamara and Matt Bongi each added 10.

Training Assoc. (Smith) 62 JP’s (Meyer) 54
The first quarter featured a bunch of spurts from both sides Training scoring the first 4 points then JP’s behind Walthall going on a 9-2 run and then Training answering near the end to take a 12-11 first quarter lead. The second quarter Cj Smith seized the moment though, as attention was clearly on Correnti, Smith was able to drive the baseline netting 6 of Training’s 10 points for the quarter. Gallo and Joshi hit the only baskets for Jp’s, both 3’s keeping the game close trailing only 22-18 after 2 quarters with half of their points coming from 3’s. In the third quarter Jack Walthall scored 11 including two threes but every one of his 3-pointers was answered by one from Andre Chen. The third quarter ended with Training able to extend their lead by 2, now up 37-31. Time and time again in the 4th quarter Correnti was cleaning the glass on the offensive side and converting the put-back. He totaled 13 points in the quarter pushing the lead out to 16. Back came JP with Joshi netted 3 more threes and Spencer Nagi converted two runners in the lane and suddenly the lead was only five. Training was able to convert their free throws down the stretch, as JP was forced to foul, and held on to win 62-54. Correnti led all scorers with 27, Chen had 12 and Smith chipped in 10 for Training. Walthall carried JP’s with 20 with Joshi netting 15 on 5 threes and Nagi adding 10.

WASA (Kash/Dugard) 49 Ricardi Designs (Moran/Fitzgerald) 26
With only 5 players, the Ricardi Designs (Moran/Fitzgerald) played their hearts out; but came up short against a strong WASA (Kash/Dugard) team 49 to 26. Ricardi Designs Sophomore Logan Zais led all scorers with 14 points and a couple of nice 3 pointers; however a full squad, balanced scoring attack, and tenacious defense from WASA was too much for Ricardi Design to handle. Jake Lubsen led the WASA team with 12 points, with Jake Dugard draining 8. The WASA team was excited to get point guard Ryan Alexander back in the mix after missing the first 4 games. Ryan, Peter Gonsalves, and Tamas Palfi poured in 6 points each with Kush Patel capturing 5. Kush also started the game with a sweet 3 point bomb…Defensive prowess by WASA made it tough for Ricardi Designs to get the ball inside to their big man Thomas Mespelli (6 points) as Derek Tam, Dan Moon, Vish Matta and Greg Kashmanian were relentless in their defensive zone.
Next week, the WASA team goes up against a strong JP’s team (Corey/Meyer), with Ricardi Designs battling Arturo’s (French/Beliveau).

Feb 1 Results

Boroughs Medical (Priest) 60 Training Associates (Smith) 54
A great game between two very strong teams ended up with Boroughs Medical sneaking out a victory. Collin Priest was on fire, finishing with 29 points and Justin Gonzales chipped in with 13 for the winners. Matt Kaiser, Will Kelley, Jake Prouty had strong games defensively and rebounding while Jake and Justin also played tough but ended up fouling out. The Associates were paced by Ryan Liu and CJ Smith who finished with 17 and 15 points respectively.

Feb 7 Results

Civic Club (Morin) 37 Bistro 57 (Duckett)
Civic won a tough game against Bistro 57 , 37-27. Griffin Barry led Bistro with 8 points and Dan Lis led Civic with 16 points. Bistro started the 2nd half with a tough man press but Civic was able to crack it with most of their ssessions. Civic pulled away in the 4th quarter as most of the game was under a 6 point difference between the two teams. As most games this season, both teams are very closely matched and a break either way can make the difference in the overall outcome.

Car Wash (Macelhaney) 50 WHOP (Leong) 37
On Super Sunday, in front of a super crowd, Car Wash and WHOP slugged it out at the New Gym in a game of back and forths with Car Wash ultimately coming out on top 50-37. Atypical of their Sundays, Car Wash started slowly and behind big Max Weidhaas WHOP jumped off to an early lead. Car Wash finally got going behind Trevor McNamara’s penetration and a nifty 3 point play by Adam Steinberg and led 11-6 after one. In the second behind bigs Arya Murthi and Julian Bosch, Car Wash fans were ready to chant “wax on”, but with Aidan Burke and Collin Foley scrapping for loose balls and offensive rebounds, WHOP fans chanted ‘wax off’ and they cut a double digit lead to just 26-20 at Half with Car Wash leading. In the second half, Car Wash slowly continued to stretch the lead with scores of 40-31 at the end of 3 and a finale of 50-37. Max Weidhaas led all scorers with 18 points with contributions of 8 and 6 from Aidan Burke and Collin Foley. Arya Murthi led a balanced Car Wash attack with 13, with Matt Bongi and Julian Bosch each adding 10 points.

Boroughs Med (Priest) 52 Chik-Fil-A (Hillier) 44
It was a very tough start for Team Chik Fil A who was short 2 key players. The 1st quarter ended with Team Boroughs Med up 17-8.
However Team Chik Fil A slowly crept back into the game to get within 4 points with roughly 2 minutes to play. Team Boroughs Medical kept their composure though playing very smart basketball and closed out the game with a hard fought win, 52-44.
Standouts for Boroughs Medical were; Justin Gonzalez with 17 points, Collin Priest with 15 points Team Chik Fil A was led by Cord Callahan with 14 points and Chris Komari with 12 points.

Smook (Jane) 67 Training Assoc. (Smith) 57
Team Smook (Jané-Latimer) came back from a first quarter deficit and finished strong to top Training Associates (Smith-Correnti) 67-57. The game was tight for three quarters before Team Smook opened up a lead with a 24-point 4th quarter explosion. Matt Jané led all scorers with 23 point including 10 in the pivotal 4th quarter and hit 7 of 8 free throws down the stretch. Eric Latimer, who was often double-teamed, added 16 points with some dazzling ball-handling and clutch outside shooting. Smook’s big men Liam Dolan and Ben Smith contributed 13 and 8 point respectively and did yeomen’s work pounding the boards and defending big man Sam Correnti. CJ Smith and Ryan Liu led Training Associates with 16 points each. Both players combined strong outside shooting with strong drives to the hoop. Sam Correnti added 10 points and several blocked shots for Training Associates.