D8 Takes Junior, Senior All-Star Games in Annual Showdown

D10 Sr. All-Stars

The District 8 junior and senior all-stars were victorious yesterday evening in both games against their District 10 (Guelph) counterparts.  The games were held at Resurrection CSS in Kitchener.

D8 Sr. All-Stars

Both were competitive games, with the junior D8 team taking the opener 86-74 before the seniors came back from a double-digit halftime deficit to win 77-67.

On the junior side, D8's game MVP Zubair Seyed netted 12 of his 16 points in the second half, while St. Mary's Adham Eleeda also did the majority of his damage in the second stanza, nettting 10 of his 15 points as the D8 squad gradually took charge of a game that was tied at halftime.

Alex Durigon (St. James) had a game-high 23 points for the D10, while Shan Lekhi (ODSS) was also in double-figures with 11.

Also hitting the balanced scoresheet for D8 aside from Seyed and Eleeda were Barnaba Niel (10), Mason Cumming (9), Minas Abara (9), Muyang Iluya (8), Alex Douglas (8), Ali Rashid (6), and Justin Malnerich (5).

For D10, other scorers included Nick Marquis (8), Julian Ranzetti (8), Keegan Feeney (7), Mengis Hiyabu (6), Nate Scott (3), Curtis Gordon (3), James Gerstenkorn (2), Kyle Tuohy (2), and Kyle Kush (2).

Mengis Hiyabu (JF Ross) was named D10's player of the game.

Senior
On the senior side, the all-star game could certainly be categorized as a "game of runs".

D8 jumped out to a 19-13 lead at the end of one, only to see a couple of big D10 runs in the second quarter (12-3 run, then another 13-4 run to end the quarter) as the Guelph area stars took a 38-26 halftime lead in a relatively low-scoring affair.

D8, though, found their offensive mojo in the third quarter, equalling their first-half output with a 26-point frame, and then used the strength of a 13-4 fourth quarter run to extend to a 74-61 lead late before things ended with the D8 ahead 77-67.

Rez's Patric McGlynn (three 3's), SMHS' trio of Tesloth Simon (two 3's), Tyrick Thompson (10 of 14 points in the second half) and Nathan Riley (2 dunks) were all instrumental in the second half comeback.

McGlynn had four three-pointers in all en-route to 16 points and D8's game MVP nod.  Tesloth Simon, the league MVP, had five three-pointers and an 18-point effort, while also hitting the scoresheet for the D8 were Tyrick Thompson (14), Nathan Riley (10), Avery Sutton (9), Ryan Stafford (3), Jermaine Lyle (3), Tyler Hergott (2), and Sohrob Sultani (2).

D10's scoresheet was led by Tommy Yanchus (12), James Scott (8), Andrew Folkerson (8), Owen Brombal (7), Joey Hasson (7), Kevin Roche (5), Smith (5), Adam MacEachern (4), Jonah Hopkins (4), Craig Valeriote (3), Mitch Marquis (2), and Jesse Kendall (2).

Folkerson was named as the D10's game MVP.