Name: Cameron Tyler
School: Benjamin Cardozo
Sport: Basketball
Position: Guard
Year: Senior
Height: 5-foot-10
Cameron Tyler didn’t have the greatest shooting day, going just 4-for-18 from the field, but with a berth in the PSAL Class A semifinals on the line in the final two minutes against Gompers, the ball never left his hands.
“Killer Cam” scored a team-high 14 points, including four straight free throws in a little more than a minute to put Cardozo ahead, 48-45, with 31 seconds left.
“He’s a strong guard,” Gompers coach Ned Jackson said of Tyler. “We tied him up, but he still got the shots off. He didn’t shoot a lot of long shots, he hurt us more penetrating.”
In an 80-62 blowout over No. 12 Urban Peace in a second round game last Thursday at Elmcor, Tyler scored the Judges’ first nine points en route to a 24-points performance.
Gayle Silverstein scored 18 points and Allie Falco added 15 for the Bayside girls’ basketball team, which defeated rival Van Buren to advance to the PSAL Class B semifinals … Leslie Dickinson scored a team-high 19 points to lead the Christ the King girls’ team to a 82-62 win over Molloy in the Brooklyn/Queens Diocesan championship. Rosalyn Gold-Onwude led all scorers with 22 for the Stanners … Bryan Geffen had 28 points, 11 assists and 5 steals to propel the St. Francis Prep Terriers over St. Peter’s in first-round CHSAA playoff action … Mitchell Beauford and Japhet McNeil each scored 16 for the CTK Royals in their Diocesan winning effort against Xaverian … Bradd Wierzbicki and Ray Tinneny scored 27 and 25, respectively, for Cathedral Prep in a semifinal win over St. Joseph by the Sea … Serge Clement led five St. John’s Prep players in double figures with 20 in a quarterfinal victory over Mount St. Michael … Chris Ryan, the leading scorer in the CHSHL ‘B’ division, had two third period goals and two assists for the Holy Cross hockey team in a 5-4 win over St. Edmund.
