Girls basketball: Vote for the Player of the Week
With the holidays here and gone, The Journal News/lohud resumes its Girls Basketball Player of the Week online poll.
This one, a combination of the two preceding weeks due to the reduced number of games played, includes seven athletes who were nominated by their coaches.
The most recent winner, out of a field of 11, was Pelham eighth-grader Val Arakas, who had 18 points and 10 boards in a win over Hen Hud and also hit for double figures with 12 points in a loss to Harrison.
Please read about the current nominees below, then scroll to the poll to vote.
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There's no limit to the number of times an individual may vote, but vote soon.
The poll will close at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
The winner will subsequently be announced via social media.
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Kiki Daly, North Rockland
The sophomore forward poured in 30 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had six assists as the Red Raiders beat Arlington 70-44.
Zoey Jowers, Ossining
On back-to-back days, the senior guard scored 19 points in wins over Tuckahoe and Mount Vernon. Against Tuckahoe, she also had five rebounds and two steals in the Pride's 70-43 win and against Mount Vernon, she had four boards and also two steals in a 79-48 victory
Ava Letizia, Suffern
Ava Letizia, who plays both guard and forward, had 25 points, nine of them in the fourth quarter to put a physical game out of reach for Nyack as Suffern won 48-43. Letizia also had six rebounds, three assists and two steals.
Riley New, Fox Lane
In a win over Somers and a five-point, championship-game loss to host Pelham in the Pelham Tournament, the sophomore guard totaled 31 points, nine steals, five deflections, five rebounds and two assists to earn all-tournament honors.
Kaitlyn Raguso, Hen Hud
The junior forward/guard hit for 15 points and had a monster game on the boards with 24 rebounds in a win over Yorktown. She also poured in 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in a loss to Pearl River.
Julia Scott, Albertus Magnus
The sophomore forward, the MVP of Magnus's 33rd annual Richard McNichol Christmas Tournament, hit for 133 points over four Falcon wins and was also in double figures in rebounds in each of those games. Against St. Rose, she poured in 33 points, had 14 rebounds and four blocks. She drained 30 points against Tappan Zee with 13 boards. In a 65-55 win over defending state Class A champion Panas, Scott hit for 28 points and had 12 rebounds. And she had 26 of Magnus's 45 points and 10 boards in a six-point win over New Jersey's Immaculate Heart Academy.
Mia Strazza, Harrison
Despite the Huskies going 1-2 with two close losses in the Josh Palmer Regional Tournament in Elmira, the junior guard had three outstanding games. In a 58-45 win over Corning, she poured in 25 points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished out four assists. In Harrison's 58-55 setback to Buffalo powerhouse Cardinal O'Hara, she hit for 17 points, grabbed six rebounds and had three assists. And in the Huskies' 68-61 loss to St. Mary's, also of Buffalo, Strazza had 19 points and seven boards.
Nancy Haggerty covers cross-country, track & field, field hockey, skiing, ice hockey, basketball, girls lacrosse and other sporting events for The Journal News/lohud. Follow her on Twitter at @HaggertyNancy
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Girls basketball: 7 athletes nominated for online Player of Week vote
