Rye Boys Basketball Team Reaches State Semifinals

Rye’s boys basketball team beat Smithtown West 51-47 on Friday in Yorktown, overcoming three quarters of cold shooting with a blistering finish.

The Garnets (21-5) were trailing 37-30 entering the final quarter, then outscored Long Island’s Section 11 champions 21-10 down the stretch to win in the regional final.

Senior Carson Miller led Rye with 18 points, and teammate Henry Shoemaker added 13. The Bulls (22-2), who averaged 78 points this season, were held more than 30 points below that mark.

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Rye is the second team to punch its ticket to next weekend’s Class AA state semifinals in Binghamton. The Section 1 champion Garnets will face either Amsterdam, from District 2, or Nottingham, from District 3.

Rye’s semifinal game will tip off at 11:45 a.m. March 20 in Binghamton’s Visions Veterans Memorial Arena. The championship game is 6 p.m. March 21.

The Garnets have now won six straight playoff games, and 12 of their past 13 games overall. For the second time in the past four games, Rye eliminated a team that had just one loss all season: Suffern, the top-seeded team in Section 1, and now Smithtown West, which entered Friday on a 20-game win streak.

Visit ryerecord.com later for more details on Friday’s win.