Mexico's Elizabeth Peters gets ready to serve.
It was quite the night to be a fan of Mexico High School Athletics on Tuesday night. The Tigers girls basketball team trailed Chittenango be eight in the fourth quarter, but fought back to force overtime and eventually win the game. Jamie Wallace led all scorers with 18 points, and Kaitlin Antelmi led Chittenango with 17.
The boys hoops team also defeated Chittenango, that game was in Mexico and fell in the Tigers' favor 63-40. John Eastman and Zach Rousseau each led the way with 16 points.
The Mexico volleyball team also tasted victory on Tuesday, defeating ES-M 3-0 on the road. This week's CNY Central Athlete Elizabeth Peters played tremendous all night long and made some key plays in the match clinching third game.
Elsewhere in Central New York, fans of ES-M boys basketball came away with excitement as the Spartans beat perennial power CBA 57-47. Jeffrey McDuffie scored 15 for ES-M delivering coach Mark Carr to his win (as basketball coach) over CBA. The CBA girls though, beat ES-M 66-52.
One of CBA's biggest rivals, Jamesville-Dewitt saw its boys and girls basketball teams beat Cortland on Tuesday. The boys won 59-51 thanks to 17 points from DaJuan Coleman and 16 points from Tyler Cavanaugh. The Lady Red Rams beat Cortland by four.
Here's a look at some other scores from around Section III:
Boys Basketball:
C-NS 55, Johnson City 48
Bishop Ludden 80, Marcellus 34
Utica Proctor 67, Nottingham 45
Cazenovia 57, Skaneateles 55
Oswego 56, West Genesee 52
Fulton 62, Fowler 48
Solvay 66, Phoenix 52
Girls Basketball:
Hamilton 53, Otselic Valley 17
Fabius-Pompey 67, Syracuse Academy of Science 32
Bishop Ludden 55, Marcellus 38
Fulton 65, Fowler 45
West Genesee 62, Oswego 32
