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    • Recruiting, St. Patrick

    SPRINGFIELD, Mass — Jordan Walker thought he had the game won at the end of regulation.

    His step-back three-point shot at the buzzer would have won the game, but instead he was whistled for an offensive foul.

    No matter, the 5-foot-10 guard went on to score six points in the two overtime periods and finished with a near-triple-double of 15 points, 11 assists and 9 rebounds as The Patrick School fended off Duke-bound Wendell Carter and Pace Academy (GA), 68-60 in double-overtime, at the Hoophall Classic.

    “Oh, I was upset, I was highly upset but I had to get past it and just try to get the win,” Walker said of the offensive foul call. “But I was highly upset.”

    Breaking News, Kyrie Irving, St. Patrick

    By ADAM ZAGORIA

    Spencer Joyner has never met Kyrie Irving, but he knows a lot about him.

    “I never met him,” Joyner, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at The Patrick School (N.J.), said by phone. “He plays on the Cleveland Cavaliers with LeBron and Kevin Love. He just won an NBA title last year. [He was] the No. 1 pick in the Draft, went to Duke. He didn’t play so much in college because he got hurt.”

    Irving is also among the leaders in votes for the upcoming NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans.

    Though the two have never met, Irving is making a huge difference in Joyner’s life. Spencer was diagnosed in November with pseudotumor cerebri, a debilitating condition that results in migraine headaches and can cause vision loss. The condition kept him in the hospital for more than a week and prevents him from attending school for the time being.

    St. Anthony, St. Patrick

    MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — One team owns the New Jersey Tournament of Champions trophy.

    Their archrival wants it.

    On Saturday, reigning TOC champion St. Anthony’s — winner of 41 straight games dating to March 2015 — will put its streak on the line against The Patrick School, the No. 14 team in the nation according to USA Today and the favorite to win this year’s TOC crown. The teams will square off at 5:45 p.m. in the Dan Finn Classic at the Jersey City Armory.

    “It’s a St. Pat’s- St. Anthony’s game, that’s all that needs to be said,” Patrick School (7-2) co-coach Mike Rice said Tuesday night after watching the Friars (9-0) edge out the Ranney School, 51-48, at Brookdale Community College.

    Roselle Catholic, St. Anthony, St. Patrick

    Bob Hurley remembers his St. Anthony’s team playing on the grand stage of the Hoophall Classic against Malik Monk and Bentonville (AR) a year ago.

    Monk, who had signed with Kentucky, scored 22 points in a loss in front of Wildcats coach John Calipari, but it was St. Anthony’s junior guard R.J. Cole who really made a name for himself.

    “It’s a big, big stage and when a kid plays on that stage and plays well, it’s something that you remember,” Hurley, whose team has won 41 straight games, said Thursday on The 4 Quarters Podcast. “Last year Malik Monk scored [22] points, R.J. Cole scored 23. R.J. scored the first 16 points of the game, and after that game he and his family knew he was going to get a scholarship because he had done that on a stage that’s even bigger than when you play in the state final.”

    Cole ultimately chose Howard over Monmouth and Boston University, but a whole new crop of young New York and New Jersey stars will get a chance to impress college coaches this weekend at the Hoophall Classic.

    St. Anthony, St. Patrick

    The last time Bob Hurley and the St. Anthony’s Friars lost a basketball game, it was March 14, 2015.

    That came against a Roselle Catholic team led by Isaiah Briscoe in the New Jersey Non-Public B title game in Toms River.

    For a frame of reference, the last time St. Anthony’s lost, Donald Trump was three months away from announcing his candidacy for President.

    Now, nearly two years since that Roselle Catholic loss, the Friars have won 40 straight games after edging a tough Blair Academy team, 52-48, on Sunday at the Hoops to Help Basketball Showcase at the County College of Morris.

    The winning streak includes a perfect 32-0 campaign last season that resulted in the school’s 13th New Jersey Tournament of Champions title and an 8-0 start to the 2016-17 campaign.

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