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JAMAICA, NY— Senior guard Nicholas Hamilton-Lopez scored a game-high 33 points to lead the York College men’s basketball team to an 87-58 win over St. Joseph’s College (LI) in the quarterfinals of 2010 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Metro Division Championships.
The game was never in doubt due in large part due to the shooting of Hamilton-Lopez in the early going. Hamilton-Lopez netted 23 of his 33 points and made five of his seven three-pointers in the first half. With just nine minutes into the game, he already had 21 points and York had a comfortable 30-19 lead. The Cardinals continued to pile it on and took a 28 point lead into halftime. St. Joseph’s could only get as close as 24 points the rest of the way.
Also contributing for York (22-7) was junior center Marcel Esonwune who finished with 13 points, 14 rebounds and three blocks. Senior forward Elijah Evelyn paced the Cardinals with 19 points. With the win, York has matched it school record of 22 wins, which was set during the 2007-08 school year.
For St. Joseph’s (17-10), Mike Crisci scored a team-high 16 points, while Shahab Syed finished with 12 points and eight rebounds.
York will now face NYU in the semi-finals on Saturday at a 2:30 p.m. The game will played on the campus of SUNY Old Westbury. Directions to the campus can be found here. If you can't make it out to the game, there will be a live audio feed. Click here to access it. It will be the third consecutive year the two teams have met in the ECAC Championships.
The ECAC Metro Championship features the eight best remaining teams in the region that are not playing in the NCAA Tournament.
An ECAC committee, featuring local administrators and coaches, selects the eight best remaining teams and seeds them according to criteria such as overall record, strength of schedule, and quality of wins.