Bulldogs run ends

Campus Magnet managed to get by one Brooklyn power when they stopped Robeson last week, but two in as many games proved to be too much for the fifth-seeded Bulldogs, as No. 4 Grady overwhelmed them, 61-46, in the PSAL Class A quarterfinals Sunday afternoon at St. Francis College.
Guard Randy Burns led the Falcons with 19 points, Wayne Turner added 13 and Trevor Charles and Curtis Leslie chipped in with 12 points apiece. Junior Keith McAllister led the Bulldogs with 16 points, but Evan Thomas, last year’s leading scorer who was so instrumental in Campus Magnet’s run to the borough championship, finished with just three points. Senior Patrick Bordeau scored 14 points and Earl Anglin chipped in with 11.
After matching the Falcons early on, Campus Magnet allowed Grady to reel off a 16-0 run bridging the end of the first quarter and start of the second. Keith McAllister stopped the bleeding with a pair of free-throws, but Campus Magnet would trail by 38-20 at halftime.
Although they scored the first nine points of the third quarter, foul trouble would quickly catch up with them. Much like their previous playoff victory over Robeson, when four-fifths of their starting lineup had to sit out parts of the fourth quarter due to foul woes, the Bulldogs once again found most of their starting lineup on the bench instead of on the court down the stretch.
Grady (28-4) led by 14 heading into a fourth quarter where they were never challenged, mostly because Evan Thomas, Bordeau and Josiah Peay all fouled out. Bordeau and Anglin were visibly upset after the game, each professing they could have done more to help. “It’s just so frustrating because, for a lot of guys, this was our last chance at the championship,” Bordeau said.
After their latest victory, the Bulldogs (24-4) spoke optimistically about a trip to Madison Square Garden, the site of the PSAL Class A city championship. But now, that is all a distant memory.
“We were so concerned with making it to Madison Square Garden,” Anglin said, “that we seemed to forget that we had to beat Grady first.”