Name: Japhet McNeil
School: Christ the King
Sport: Basketball
Position: Point Guard
Year: Senior
Height: 6 feet
Weight: 160 pounds
Japhet McNeil, a Bedford-Stuyvesant native, scored a team-high 21 points with 5 assists and 4 steals to lead the Christ the King Royals past the Archbishop Molloy Stanners Friday night, 65-57, in a game considered by many to be for the bragging rights of the borough.
But the win was much more than just another game, as McNeil and backcourt mate Mitchell Beauford out-dueled Molloy’s dynamic duo of Marlon Smith and Sundiata Gaines.
McNeil, the team’s quarterback since his sophomore season, was a first-team All-Queens selection by the TimesLedger a season ago and has since moved into the top four all-time in assists at the Middle Village school.
Holy Cross’ Gary Hawkins led the Knights to a 64-63 win over rivals St. Francis Prep, scoring 18 … Bradd Wierzbicki scored 24 points to lead Cathedral Prep over Salesian, 70-55 … Megan Sullivan scored 24 in St. Francis Prep’s 74-71 win over Molloy, while Jessica McEntee dropped 22 for the Stanners. Sullivan also had 15 points and 9 assists in a win over Bishop Ford, while McEntee had 19 points and 15 rebounds against Bishop Kearney … Diana Frank continues to be a one-woman wrecking crew for the Springfield Gardens girls’ basketball team. She scored 17 points in a 52-41 win over American Studies and netted 20 points in a 58-26 win over Campus Magnet … Nashaun Burrell scored her 1,000th career point in a 14-point performance for John Bowne in a 64-49 win over Newtown … Donnell Cummings scored 31 points and dished out 10 assists for the August Martin boys’ basketball team in a 75-42 win over Van Buren … Jose Galeano and Amseshem Foluke continued their dominance in the PSAL B division as they combined for 57 of American Studies’ 82 points in a win over RFK. Foluke also grabbed 21 rebounds for the Eagles … Mike Farrell netted a hat trick and added an assist and Sean Kearney had a goal and three assists for the Molloy hockey team in a 6-3 win over rival Holy Cross.
