Chapel Field earns the golden basketball as Class D champs

Posted 3/22/23

LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY — If you have an opponent who is destined to post 31 points in a championship game of buckets, you might have an unstoppable force to contend with.

That was exactly the …

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Chapel Field earns the golden basketball as Class D champs

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LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY — If you have an opponent who is destined to post 31 points in a championship game of buckets, you might have an unstoppable force to contend with.

That was exactly the case on March 1, when the Blue Devils of Roscoe (11-10) faced Jonah McDuffie, the shooting ace of the Chapel Field Christian School Lions (17-5). He posted 31 points in his team’s 60-46 victory “down in the Bunker” at SUNY Sullivan’s Paul Gerry Fieldhouse.

Roscoe jumped out to a momentary 13-8 lead in the first frame, but the Lions charged back in the second period to outscore the Blue Devils 22-8, to take a 30-21 lead into the locker room at halftime.

Both squads battled hard in the remaining frames, but Chapel Field edged the Blue Devils 12-9 and 18-12 and earned the defending Section IX Class D champs a repeat of the title, while picking up the “golden basketball” award as the conquerors of the game.

“I told my team it was going to be hard to beat them three times [this season], but they came out and made some shots,” said Lions coach Brad McDuffie. “We prepared for them tonight, didn’t lose our composure, and stuck with the system.”

Mike Hill, helmsman of the Blue Devils hoopsters said, “I thought we started off the game really well… we played them a couple of times before, and made some adjustments.”

But then along came Jonah McDuffie to toss a monkey wrench into Roscoe’s game plan.

“He started off a little slow, but then he got going,” said Hill. “He was a handful. We struggled to contain him… those two guys,  numbers 33 [McDuffie] and 23 [Noah Swett, who posted 19 points], did most of the scoring damage, and Chapel Field didn’t allow us to get the three-pointers we needed.”

In reflecting upon the year just wrapped, Hill said the team’s top point-getters were senior Anthony Teipelice and juniors Aiden Johnson and Anthony Zamenick.

Expected back on the hardwood in 2023-2024 are 11th graders Johnson and Zamenick, along with Robert Buck, Jayson Meola, Zachary Schwartz, Damien Fletcher and Cameron Revicki.

Top scorers

Chapel Field: Jonah McDuffie (31 points), Noah Swett (19) and Mikey Bonagura (8).

Roscoe: Aiden Johnson (16 points, including 4 three-pointers), Anthony Zamenick (13, including 3 three-pointers).

Blue Devils, Roscoe, Chapel Field Christian School

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