by Gary Danforth
Coach Mike Lilac Jr.’s 2009-10 boys varsity basketball team is poised to defend its round ball title from a year ago when HFCS finished 11-3 in the dog eat dog WASAREN League with Brittonkill-Tamarac and Granville having 10-4 won-loss slates in league play. On the last night of the regular season, Lilac’s crew defeated eventual Class CC boys sectional finalist, Stillwater Central School, and Hoosic Valley knocked off Brittonkill-Tamarac by two points to assist Hoosick Falls with the third league title for Lilac as boys coach since the 1996-97 campaign. Lilac, in his fourteenth season as round ball boss, has rung up 193 wins at Hoosick Falls over the past thirteen seasons, or an average of almost fifteen wins per year.
Kevin McMahon, a 6’6” senior forward/center, will be on the varsity roster for his third straight season after being brought up for sectionals as a freshman. Other seniors on the roster include Hutton Rasmus, a 5’10” forward, Andy DiDonato, a guard, and Logan O’Brien, a 5’7” guard. Juniors on the roster will include 6’2” forward Mike Brewster, 6’2” forward Quinn Rasmus, Sean Dingman, Will Luke, Davis Ciuk and Ryan Hand. Sophomores on the varsity will include 5’8” guard Alex Lilac, 5’10” Tanner Williams and John Hayden.
The Panthers will open their 2009-10 season on Friday night, December 4, when they travel to Hoosic Valley Central School. The Indians won the WASAREN League title in 2008-09 and are a solid ball club year in and year out. Other WASAREN League foes will be Cambridge, whom HFCS hosts on December 11, Greenwich, Stillwater, Schuylerville, Granville and Brittonkill-Tamarac. Hoosick Falls will host its annual Hoosier Holiday Basketball Tournament on Monday and Tuesday, December 28 and 29. The Panthers will open at 7 pm against Berlin Central School in a tourney which also features Waterford and Watervliet. HFCS has never lost the tourney championship game.
Rebounding From Afar: The Panthers seem to have a nice blend of upper and lower classmen on the roster. Every ball game in the WASAREN League is a dog fight as evidenced by Hoosick Falls, Hoosic Valley, Schuylerville and Stillwater winning league titles the past four seasons in descending order from 2009-2006. Hoosic Valley should be one of the league favorites and will be a good measuring stick to see where HFCS is early in this 2009-10 season.
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