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Sunday, March 4, 2012

NJSIAA North 1, Group 2 playoffs
BOYS BASKETBALL:Injured and hurried, Pascack Hills holds off Manchester

Manchester's Tuhray Smith.

By Cory K. Doviak
NJS.com Editorial Director

MONTVALE – With Cole Dorfman and Jared Shill, two three-year starters, in the backcourt plus a talented third guard, Brian Horn, in the starting lineup, Pascack Hills boys basketball team has pretty much been immune to full court defensive pressure all season long. In fact, the Cowboys generally embrace the challenge as any of their three starting guards are more than capable of grabbing an outlet pass and leading a break the other way and finishing it, either with a hoop or an assist. It set up perfectly in the North 1, Group 2 state sectional semifinal as Manchester showed up in Montvale determined to create a frantic 32 minutes of end to end basketball. But everything changed for Pascack Hills with one head fake, too good a head fake as it turned out, just 1:32 into the game. Shill, who had opened the scoring with a three-pointer, faked a jumper from the left wing and beat his defender baseline before dropping a back-handed bounce pass to Dorfman, who took possession and used an up-fake of his own against Manchester’s Rgzeck Guyton, who was closing fast. Guyton left his feet and as Dorfman went to put the ball on the floor he was kicked square in the right side of the face by the right foot of Guyton, who was flying by. MORE...