Moshier: Young Proctor team's up, and coming

Thomas R. Proctor High School’s young boys basketball team may be a work in progress, but it looks as if the Raiders are making progress.

 

 Sure, they committed 30 turnovers in Tuesday’s Central New York Counties League game against Corcoran, but the first-place Cougars had 33 turnovers of their own. And, when push came to shove, it was Proctor that prevailed, 57-53 in an overtime nailbiter at the Michael J. Arcuri Athletic Complex.

 

Longtime Proctor head coach Norm Stamboly admits, “you don’t know from game to game” what you’re going to get, but for the second time in as many weeks his Raiders handed a division-leading CNYCL team its first league loss (they won at Liverpool last week).

 

Stamboly started three sophomores against Corcoran, and another sophomore who played for last year’s unbeaten freshmen team, 6-foot-3 forward T’Andre Richardson, was most impressive off the bench. He scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Junior Rahmel Brown added 12 points and 11 rebounds, and sophomore Walkery Mills had 10 points and eight rebounds for Proctor.

 

At 4-3, it will be difficult for the Raiders (7-7 overall) to claim a fourth consecutive league title. Still, there appears to be no Class AA powerhouse in all of Section III this season, so don’t be surprised if this young, up-and-coming Proctor team makes some noise come playoff time.