The Mid-Hudson region team that will participate in the Basketball Coaches Association of New York Summer Hoop Festival will feature a lot returnees, all-stars and familiar names.
The guards will be Zoe Mesuch of Wallkill; Gabby Murphy of Marlboro; Ava Scaturro of Kingston; Reilly Landisi of Beacon; T.T. Burden of Newburgh; Madison Fileen of Monroe-Woodbury; Leticia Watson of Pine Bush; Samantha Calahan of Highland; and, Reese Girardi of Warwick.
The forwards are Ketura Rutty of Pine Bush, Lila Lovgren of Our Lady of Lourdes and center Maggie Bishopp of Valley Central. All are seniors except the junior Girardi and sophomore Burden.
The alternates are sophomore center Ella Herbert from Sullivan West, junior forward Cassie Jennings of Minisink Valley and sophomore guard Nalyah Campbell of Marlboro.
Mesuch (a Navy commit), Scaturro, Murphy, Landisi and Bishopp are returning from the 2023 club.
Wallkill’s A.J. Higby will serve as head coach once again.
The 12th annual festival will be hosted by Johnson City elementary, middle and high schools in the Binghamton region from July 26-28. Boys and girls teams from each region will play a minimum of three round-robin games, followed by semifinals, placement and championship games.
Modeled after the sections used in New York State public school play, the other regions attending should be Hudson Valley (the Section 1 schools from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties), Capital (Section 2), Buffalo (Section 6), Rochester (Section 5), Nassau (Sections 8-11), Central (Section 3) and Southern Tier (Section 4).
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