This week, we present to you The Tablet’s Girls’ H.S. Basketball All-Stars as chosen by the coaches of the schools in Brooklyn and Queens.
Girls Division I First Team
Brianna Butler, Nazareth R.H.S., Flatbush — Senior, Guard; scored 16 points with 11 rebounds and 7.0 assists in city semifinal win over Archbishop Molloy; McDonald’s All-American; will attend Syracuse University
Darius Faulk, Nazareth R.H.S. —Senior, Guard; N.Y.C.’s top senior girls basketball player as voted by the New York Post; will attend West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.V.
Sierra Calhoun, Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village — Sophomore, Guard; scored 22 points in Christ the King’s B/Q title win over Bishop Ford; New York Magazine’s top N.Y.C. sophomore; ranked in the top 15 sophomores in the U.S.
Carolyn Gallagher, Archbishop Molloy H.S., Briarwood — Junior, Forward; 19 points and 11 rebounds per game; shot 90% from the free-throw line; scored 34 points in a game v. Ossining H.S., Westchester.
Amani Tate, Bishop Loughlin M.H.S., Fort Greene — Junior, Guard/Forward; 18 points and 12 rebounds per game (averaged a double-double for the season); team’s leading scorer and rebounder
Girls Division I Second Team
Reana Mohamed, The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates —Senior, Guard; 14.7 points, 8.0 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game; scored 1,000th point v. St. Francis Prep; received the Brooklyn/Queens CHSAA’s Cynthia McGrath Sportsmanship Award; will attend George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Shanice Vaughan, Bishop Ford H.S., Park Slope — Senior, Guard (Captain); 15.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 4.0 steals per game; finished Bishop Ford career with 1,018 points; will attend the University of Texas at El Paso
Aaliyah Lewis, Bishop Ford —Junior, Guard (Captain), 12.0 points, 4.0 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game, scored game-winning basket with four seconds left in Bishop Ford’s win in the B/Q diocesan semifinals
Amani Tatum, Archbishop Molloy — Junior, Guard, 16.0 points, 4.0 steals and 3.0 assists per game; had two 28-point games this season
Veronica Ganzi, St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows — Junior, Guard; 14.2 points and 4.2 assists per game; made 59 three-pointers; had two 25-point games this season
Division I Honorable Mention
Rayne Connell, Christ the King — Senior, Guard; will attend the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Elizabeth Gully, The Mary Louis Academy — Senior, Forward; 8.0 points and 12.8 rebounds per game; will attend Queens College
Caitlin O’Doherty, St. Francis Prep — Senior, Forward (Co-captain); 9.1 rebounds per game
Girls Division II First Team
Allison Gasparino, Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst — Senior, Guard; 15.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game; voted the New York Post’s Break-Out Player of the Year for both CHSAA and PSAL; recorded a double-double (25 points, 10 rebounds) in the city quarterfinals
Caroline Souza, St. John’s Prep, Astoria — Senior, Guard; 15.0 pts. and 7.0 rebounds per game; scored 26 points in St. John’s Prep’s city quarterfinals win against Aquinas H.S., the Bronx
Lily Bradley, St. Saviour H.S., Park Slope — Junior, Forward (Co-Captain); 10.0 points, 10-15 rebounds and 10-15 blocked shots per game; averaged triple-double for the season
Aaliyah Abrahams, Catherine McAuley H.S., East Flatbush — Senior, Guard (Captain); 16.0 pts. per game; scored 19 points including hitting five three-pointers in a game against Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge; Four-year Varsity player
Erin Blum, St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay — Junior, Forward; 11.0 points per game (led team); high game: 24 points against Bishop Kearney
Girls Division II Second Team
Cindy Henderson, Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge — Junior, Guard; 11.1 points per game (led team); high game: 22 points v. St. Edmund Prep; game-high 13 points in B/Q Division II championship win v. Bishop Kearney
Christina Heyer, Bishop Kearney H.S. — Sophomore, Guard; 11.0 points and 5.0 assists per game; high game: 16 points v. Staten Island Academy
Kirsten Sheridan, St. Saviour H.S. — Junior, Guard/Forward; 17 points and 5-10 rebounds per game; high game: 22 points v. St. John’s Prep
Brittany Cervino, St. Agnes Academic H.S., College Point — Senior, Guard; 9.0 points, 4.0 assists, 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game; will attend St. Joseph’s College’s Brooklyn Campus, Clinton Hill
Carla Marfe, St. John’s Prep —Junior, Guard/Forward; 11.0 point and 6.0 assists per game; scored 16 points in city quarterfinals v. Aquinas
Division II Honorable Mention
Kate Oliver, Fontbonne Hall Academy — Sophomore, Guard; 9.3 points per game (second on team); High game: 22 points v. Bishop Kearney
Veronica Cupo, St. Edmund Prep — Junior, Guard; 7.7 pts. per game; led team in assists
Nicole Carr, St. Agnes Academic H.S. — Sophomore, Center; 7.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game
Fontbonne Wins Division II BQ Championship
Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge, was crowned Brooklyn/Queens Division II champions March 3 with a 39-38 victory over Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, at Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village.
Junior guard Cindy Henderson paced the Bonnies with 13 points in the win. Despite waking up that morning with a 101-degree fever, junior guard Siohban Sammon added 11 points, bringing up similarities to NBA great Michael Jordan’s famous “flu game” of the 1997 NBA Finals when he scored 38 points after resting most of that day.
After Henderson hit an off-balance two-pointer to tie the game, Fontbonne center Michelle Moran controlled the rebound on Henderson’s free-throw miss. Moran made one-of-two free-throws to give the Bonnies the lead to stay.
The Bonnies fell in the Division II city championship, 38-29, March 9 to Preston H.S., the Bronx. Fontbonne closed out the season as the No. 4 ranked non-AA team in the city.
