News and Notes: Monday Edition

Below, news and notes for Monday...

• Wentworth Athletics is expected to formally announce the hiring of Arlen Galloway as the Leopards' new head coach at some point this week.

• Eitan Chemerinski (Cornell '13) and his Team USA picked up a convincing 89-55 win over Germany on Sunday in the Maccabi Games in Israel.  In the Preliminaries stage, Team USA is 1-1 and will next face Australia today followed by Russia (July 23) and Guinea-Bissau (July 24).  The other competing countries which qualified for Men's Basketball include Canada, Kazakhstan, France, Greece and host Israel.

News and Notes: Saturday Edition

Below, news and notes for Saturday...

• Eitan Chemerinski (Cornell '13) scored 3 points but his Team USA fell 86-83 in overtime to Argentina in the Maccabi Games in Israel on Friday.  In the Preliminaries stage, Team USA will also face in its group: Germany (July 21), Australia (July 22), Russia (July 23) and Guinea-Bissau (July 24).  The other competing countries which qualified for Men's Basketball include Canada, Kazakhstan, France, Greece and host Israel.

• Cornell assistant coach, Mike Blaine, will blog again this year for College Chalktalk.

News and Notes: Friday Edition

Below, news and notes for Friday...

• Per Hoop Dirt, Cornell "third chair" assistant coach, Arlen Galloway is expected to be formally announced as the head coach of Wentwoth Tech as early as next week.

• Former Cornell assistant coach, Jay Larranaga, is mentioned in the DelCo Times and Mass Live in connection with the head coaching job of the Philadelphia 76ers.

• Eitan Chemerinski (Cornell '13) opened his play with Team USA in the Maccabi Games in Israel today.  In the Preliminaries stage, Team USA faces in its group: Argentina  (July 19), Germany (July 21), Australia (July 22), Russia (July 23) and Guinea-Bissau (July 24).  The other competing countries which qualified for Men's Basketball include Canada, Kazakhstan, France, Greece and host Israel.

Arlen Galloway New Head Coach of Wentworth Institute of Technology

Cornell's third chair assistant coach, Arlen Galloway, is expected to be named the new head coach of Division III, Wentworth Institute of Technology.

News and Notes: Thursday Edition

Below, news and notes for Thursday...

• Daily Dose of Hoops breaks down Siena's schedule and writes:

Friday, November 22nd at Cornell: The Newman Arena welcomes the Saints the week before Thanksgiving, with Bill Courtney and the Big Red returning senior swingman Shonn Miller a year after he was Cornell's leading scorer and rebounder on a 13-18 team. Sophomore Nolan Cressler should have a bigger impact after a rookie season that saw the Pittsburgh native shoot 40 percent from three-point range, with junior guard Devin Cherry also on the precipice of a breakout campaign.

• Panther Lair recaps the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Summer Pro Am action from Wednesday night as follows.  An additional recap is on Panther Digest.

P&W BMW 94, The Lair 71
Since losing its first game, P&W BMW has been on fire this summer, and nothing changed in the season finale.
Nolan Cressler led with 22 points, and Chevron Troutman recorded a double-double as P&W BMW won its fifth straight game. With a 5-1 mark, the squad also locked up the No. 1 seed in the playoffs with its tie-breaker win over SPK.
Cressler continued his hot shooting, netting 9 of 15 shots from the field including 4 of 7 from beyond the arc. Troutman finished with 18 points and 13 rebounds, maintained his dominating, physical play.
P&W used opportunistic defense and fundamentally sound offense to open leads of 22-9 and 35-20 before settling on a nine-point lead at halftime. Lance Jeter controlled the pace by distributing the ball for seven assists. He also added seven points on the night.
The closest The Lair could get in the second half was a seven-point deficit. P&W used a 44-22 rebounding advantage and 51.3 percent shooting from the field to create number of small runs to extend its lead over the 20-point mark.
West Virginia's Devin Williams led The Lair with 20 points on 8 of 12 shooting from the field. Duquesne's Ovie Soko added 17 points and eight rebounds on the night.  By earning the top playoff seed, P&W has a bye on Monday. The team will play the lowest remaining seed on Tuesday.

• The Pittsburgh Post Gazette featured Nolan Cressler and writes:

Plum grad doing well at Cornell

Pitt basketball coach Jamie Dixon leans on the bearings of a basketball hoop at the Greentree Sportsplex, casually watching the summer league basketball game being played in front of him while talking to a couple other local coaches.

Most of his own players are in the gym participating in the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am, but the one guy who elicits a response from Dixon is the one player in the league who attends an Ivy League school.

As the tall, well-built shooting guard pulls up for a deep 3-pointer, Dixon raises his eyebrows and looks toward the baseline, asking a few media members present, "Is that the Cornell kid?"

When someone answers yes, Dixon nods and smiles while looking back toward the court, saying, "The kid can shoot."

In a summer league filled with players from powerhouse conferences and programs, Cornell's Nolan Cressler might be getting the most attention. Official stats aren't kept in the summer league, but by one unofficial count, the former Plum High School player scored 38 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in one game last week.

He got to 38 by shooting 8 of 13 from 3-point range, impressive even in a league where defense isn't placed at a premium.

So yes, the kid can shoot.

"I think he has unlimited potential," said Bill Courtney, Cressler's coach at Cornell. "We've basically given him the green light on offense to take shots. I think when you have that type of ability, there's no telling what he can accomplish here. I'm hoping in the next few years he becomes all-league and the type of player who challenges for player of the year in our league."

Cressler is a big 6-foot-4 wing, with broader shoulders than most guards his size. He plays the shooting guard/secondary ball-handler in Cornell's three-guard system, so he got a lot of opportunities to score during his freshman season.

In 31 games, Cressler averaged a little more than nine points per game -- good for fourth on the team -- and shot better than 40 percent from 3-point range. He started about a third of Cornell's games, having a roller-coaster type of season, which is normal for freshman players. The campaign started with him leading the team in scoring off the bench in his first collegiate game with 20 points all the way to enduring a typical midseason freshman swoon that saw him score 15 points total in five games.

Courtney envisions Cressler, as a sophomore who now knows what to expect, to be one of the team's leading scorers next year. His shooting alone might get him to that point. Still, the coach is looking for him to work on his defense and creating his own shots off the dribble during the pro-am league in the offseason.

"Defense is an area he needs to work on," he said. "I think every high school player makes that adjustment to college, especially for scorers because they have to shoulder so much of the load on the offensive end, learning how to play defense at a high level. A lot of it is playing against higher level players, too, who are quicker, stronger and faster.

"He's figuring it out. He got better as the year went on and hopefully that progression continues as he comes into his sophomore year."

Out of high school, Cressler had interest from several Patriot League schools, but jumped at the chance for an Ivy League education. This summer, the dichotomy of that situation is pretty clear. Cressler is playing against guys who don't have to worry about the same things he does during the school year, things such as professors who couldn't care less that their student also happens to be an athlete.

Courtney said his team schedules practices around study sessions and meetings with teachers, not the other way around. That doesn't often happen with schools in the Big East.

"It's a lot different," Cressler said. "It's crazy. I haven't been to another school so I wouldn't know first-hand, but from what I hear, our professors hold us to such a high standard that it can be really stressful. Once you get the hang of it, though, it's skills you'll be using for the rest of your life, so it will pay off eventually."

After impressing the Ivy Leagues in his first collegiate year, Cressler is spending the summer impressing Pittsburgh, and maybe not just for his shooting.

• Big Apple Buckets makes a very early All Ivy League selection and tabs Shonn Miller to the First Team and writes, "Shonn Miller impacts both ends of the floor. Nationally ranked in block and steal rate, Miller’s presence in the lane should find him another all-conference first team designation."

• Columbia Athletics issued a press release on Alex Rosenberg's and Eitan Chemerinski's participation in the Maccabi Games.

• Shalom Life interviews Larry Tannenbaum, owner of the Toronto Raptors and a Cornell alumnus.

• WEEI reports that former Cornell assistant coach, Jay Larranaga is a head coaching candidate for the Philadelphia 76ers.

• Bleacher Report lists Errick Peck as one of the Big 10's impact newcomers and writes:

 Purdue was set to go into the 2013-14 season with only two upperclassmen until a pair of graduate transfers agreed to come play for Matt Painter. Guard Sterling Carter (Seattle) and swingman Errick Peck (Cornell) join the Boilermakers for their final collegiate seasons, and both will make an impact.

The Boilers needed outside shooting, and both can supply it on occasion. Peck, though, brings an added mid-range game. Last season, Peck shot only 32.6 percent from long range, but he knocked in a more respectable 46 percent inside the arc.

Peck's 4.9 rebounds per game ranked 11th in the Ivy League, respectable territory for a 6'6" small forward. That average likely won't rank so high in the Big Ten, but Peck should still be able to contribute on the glass and the defensive end.

The question will lie in who Peck matches up with. He may spend the season taking on power forwards unless great improvements come out of senior Travis Carroll or redshirt freshman Jay Simpson.

The experience Peck brings to West Lafayette is another factor that can't be ignored. Peck saw action in Cornell's 2010 NCAA tournament run, then put up a combined 30 points in back-to-back games against Syracuse and Minnesota the following season.

Peck offers Painter a chance to partially correct an error he made back in 2009, when he signed Peck's Cathedral High School teammate Kelsey Barlow and ignored Peck. Barlow is heading into his first season at Illinois-Chicago after being dismissed from Purdue for repeated incidents at campus watering holes.

News and Notes: Wednesday Edition

Below, news and notes for Wednesday...

• Below is a partial tentative listing of opponents on Cornell's 28-game 2013-2014 schedule which will include 6 home nonconference games.  The games listed are in no particular order. Teams which participated in the 2013 postseason are noted:

1. at Syracuse (2013 NCAA Tournament Final Four)
2. at Western Michigan (2013 College Basketball Invitational)
3. at St. Bonaventure
4. at Stony Brook (2013 Postseason National Invitational Tournament)
5. at St. Peter's
6. at Colgate
7. vs. Loyola (MD) (2013 CollegeInsider.com Invitational Tournament)
8. vs. Radford
9. vs. Binghamton
10. NOVEMBER 22, 7 pm, vs. Siena
11. DECEMBER 7, vs. St. Francis (PA)
12. at BCS Opponent (Verbal agreement, Contract not signed yet)
13. at BCS Opponent (not yet determined)
14. vs. Division III Opponent (not yet determined)
15. PLUS 14 Ivy League Games

• If you missed it, check out Cornell's 2012-2013 season highlight video.

• Below is an updated list of players committed to Ivy League schools in the class of 2013 (unless otherwise noted):

Steven Spieth.(Jesuit HS) Dallas, TX, 6-6, F, Brown
Aram Martin (Miller School) Charlottesville, VA, 6-9, F, Brown
Lealand King (Brentwood School) Los Angeles, CA, 6-6, F, Brown
J.R. Hobbie (Manasquan HS) Manasquan, NJ, 6-4, G, Brown
Tavon Blackmon (Gonzaga) Washington, DC, 5-11, G, Brown
Matt Madigan (Mt. Tabor HS) Winston-Salem, NC, 6-4, G, Brown
Chris McComber (John McCrae School) Ottawa, ON, 6-7, F, Columbia
Kendall Jackson (Suffield Academy) Suffield, MA, 5-9, G, Columbia
Jeff Coby (Choate Rosemary Hall) Choate, CT, 6-6, F, Columbia
Luke Petrasek (Northport HS) Northport, NY, 6-10, C, Columbia

Connor Voss (St. Cloud Cathederal HS) St. Cloud, MN, 6-11, C, Columbia
Darryl Smith (Blue Ridge School) Chesapeake, VA, 6-2, G, Cornell
Desmond Fleming (College Park Woodlands HS) Woodlands, TX, 6-0, G, Cornell
Robert Hatter (Westside HS) Houston, TX, 6-1, G, Cornell

David Onuorah (Marist HS) Atlanta, GA, 6-8, 230, F, Cornell
Braxston Bunce (Kelowna SS) Kelowna, B.C., Canada, 6-11, C (red shirt)

Ikemefuna Ngwudo (Milton Academy) Milton, MA, 6-5, F, Dartmouth 

Eli Harrison (Sisters HS) Sisters, OR, 6-6, F, Dartmouth
Cole Harrison  (Montrose Christian) Memphis, TN, 6-11, C, Dartmouth

Mike Flemming (N'field Mt Hermon, MA) Lincolnshire, IL, 6-1, G, Dartmouth
Wes Dickinson (Peddie School) Hightstown, NJ, 6-6, F, Dartmouth

Matt Fraschila (Highland Park HS) Highland Park, TX, 5-10 G, Harvard 

Hunter Meyers (Douglas HS) Minden, NV, 6-6, F, Harvard 

Zena Edosomwan (Northfield Mt Hermon, MA) Hollywood, CA, 6-9, F, Harvard 

Matt Howard (A.J. Flora HS), Columbia, S.C., 6-4, G, Penn 

Dylan Jones (Village HS) Houston, TX, 6-8, F, Penn 

Dave Winfield (Harvard Westlake HS) Hollywood, CA, 6-8, F, Penn 

Tony Bagtas (Westlake HS) Atlanta, GA, 5-11, G, Penn
Preston Troutt (Trinity Christian) Dallas, TX 6-0, G, Penn
Khyan Rayner (Jesuit HS) Portland, OR, 5-9, G, Princeton

Henry Caruso (Serra HS) San Mateo, CA, 6-4, G, Princeton 

Hashim Moore (Hun School, NJ) Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 6-5, F, Princeton 

Spencer Weisz (Seton Hall Prep) Florham Park, NJ, 6-4, G, Princeton 

Steven Cook (New Trier HS) Winnetka, IL, 6-5, G, Princeton
Pete Miller (Northfield Mount Hermon, MA) Northfield, MA, 6-10, C, Princeton 

Sam Downy (Lake Forest HS) Lake Forest, IL, 6-9, C, Yale
A.J. Edwards (South Kent School) Kent, CT, 6-5, F, Yale

Anthony Dallier (Northfield Mount Hermon, MA) Wexford, PA, 6-6, F, Yale 

JT Flowers (Lincoln HS) Portland, OR, 6-5, F, Yale

Tyler Williams (Lakota West HS) W.Chester, OH, 6-1, G, Brown (2014) 
Amir Bell (East Brunswick HS) E.Brunswick, NJ, 6-4, G, Princeton (2014) 
Maki Mason (Hotchkiss School), Lakeville, CT, 5-11, G, Yale (2014)

Khalil Bedart-Ghani (Loyola HS) Los Angeles, CA, 6-3, G, Yale (2014)

• Below, a look at the "Cornell Coaching Plantations"  -- the men's college basketball coaches with ties to Cornell University.

  Ryan Wittman (Cornell Class of '10)-Graduate student  assistant coach at Boston College.  Played for Cornell under Steve Donahue.

  Jon Jaques (Cornell Class of '10)-Graduate student assistant coach at Columbia University. Played for Cornell under Steve Donahue. 

  Kevin App (Cornell Class of '07)-Assistant coach at Army. Played for Cornell under Steve Donahue.

  Yanni Hufnagel (Cornell Class of '06)-Assistant coach at Vanderbilt. Served as student-manager at Cornell under Steve Donahue.
  
  Steve Donahue-Head coach of Boston College. Served as head coach at Cornell between 2000-2010.
  
  Zach Spiker-Head coach of Army. He served as an assistant coach at Cornell under Steve Donahue from 2004-2009.
  
  Joe Burke-Head coach of Skidmore College (Division III). He was an assistant coach at Cornell under Steve Donahue between 2001-2004.
  
  Izzi Metz-Former Head coach Hobart College (Division III). He served as a Cornell assistant coach for five seasons between 2001-2006 under Steve Donahue and is currently an assistant coach and head of basketball operations at Boston College under Donahue.
  
  Nat Graham-Associate Head Coach (assistant) at Boston College under Steve Donahue. Served as an assistant coach under Donahue at Cornell from 2005-2010.
  
  Woody Kampmann-Assistant coach at Boston College under Steve Donahue. Served as an assistant coach under Donahue at Cornell from 2007-2010.
  
  Ryan Woerner-Former student intern coach under Steve Donahue during the 2009-2010 season and assistant coach for Cornell's women's team during 2010-2011. Currently director of basketball operations at St. Peter's.
  
  Steve Robinson-Assistant coach at North Carolina under Roy Williams. He was an assistant coach for Mike Dement at Cornell for two seasons, including on the 1988 Ivy League Championship team.
  
  Paul Fortier-Assistant coach at Cal Poly. He served as an assistant coach at Cornell during 2003-2005 under Steve Donahue.

  
  

  Desmond Oliver-Assistant coach at Charlotte. He was an assistant coach at Cornell between 1998-2000 under Scott Thompson.
  
  

  Ricky Yahn-Head coach, Concordia College of Michigan. He was an assistant coach at Cornell during 2010-2011 under Bill Courtney.

  
  
  
• Throughout the year we provide periodic updates on Cornell's alumni playing professionally. Below, some updates: 

-Jeff Aubry ('99) (Halcones Rojos, LNBP Mexico premier league/Indios de Mayaguez, BSN Puerto Rico premier league)-As of July 17, Aubry's season in Puerto Rico concluded where he averaged 7.2 points and 5.9 rebounds per game for Mayaguez in the Puerto Rico BSN, the island's premier league.  Mayaquez finished the season 19-17 and in 6th place out of 10 teams in the league and was eliminated in the opening round of the playoffs.  A 6'11" center, Aubry splits his time in both the Mexican and Puerto Rican professional leagues. A well traveled pro player, Aubry spent several seasons in the NBA D League in the early part of his career with the Fayetteville Patriots and Florida Flame and earned honorable mention all NBA D League in 2002. Aubry joins Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) (Springfield Armor), Ryan Wittman (Cornell '10) (Ft. Wayne Mad Ants) and Cody Toppert (Cornell '05) (Albuquerque Thunderbirds) as Cornell veterans of the NBA D-League.  (Cornell's four NBA D-League veterans is the most in Ivy League.)  During his more than a decade of pro experience, Aubry also played professionally in  the ABA (Miami Tropics) and abroad  in Puerto Rico (Arecibo Capitanes, Leones de Ponce, and Santurce, BSN Puerto Rico), Spain (Tarragona, LEB Gold Spain 2nd Division), Mexico (Halcones Rojos and Chihuahua Dorados, LNBP Mexico premier league), Poland (Slask Wroclaw, PLK Poland premier league), Argentina (Libertad Sunchales, Liga A Argentina), Uruguay (Hebraica, LUB Uruguay )and Peru (Alas Peruanas, Peru).

-Alex Tyler ('10) (Rockville Victors, Atlantic Coast Professional Basketball League)-Tyler finished his rookie season with the Victors.

-Louis Dale ('10) (KAOD Dramas, Greece A1 premier league)-As of July 17, Dale concluded his season and averaged 7.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game.  KAOD finished 11-15 and in 9th place out of 14 teams in the A1.  Dale spent his  first two professional seasons both in Germany's BBK Bundesliga, the country's premier league with Goettingen.

-Jeff Foote ('10) (Zalgiris, Lithuania LKL premier league/EuroLeague/VTB Russian League)-As of July 17, Zalgiris' season is concluded.  Foote averaged 7.1 points and 4.8 rebounds per game for Zalgiris in the Lithuanian premier league, the LKL.  During the LKL regular season, Zalgiris finished 10-2 and in 4th place out of 12 teams but won the league championship in a 4-0 finals sweep of Lietuvos Rytas.  Foote was named to the LKL's All Star team for the 2012-2013 season.  Zalgiris also finished 8-2 in the 6-team Group C in the opening round of the EuroLeague and was elimited after finishing 6-8 in Group E in the EuroLeague's Top 16 round.  In EuroLeague action, Foote averaged 5.2 points and 2.6 rebounds per game.  In a third league of competition, the Eastern European VTB League, Zalgiris finished 16-2 and in 1st place out of 10 teams in Group B.  Zalgiris was eliminated in the semifinals of the VTB playoffs.  Zalgiris is currently ranked #5 in Europe.  Prior to the start of the 2012-2013 season, Foote played with the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA Summer League and participated in the team's free agent mini-camp.  During 2011-2012, Foote averaged 15.1 points and 8.9 rebounds per game in the NBA D-League for the Springfield Armor (the Brooklyn Nets' affiliate) after being named a starter at the D-League's All-Star Game during February and was named Second Team All NBA D-League. Foote finished the D-League season ranked 4th in double-doubles and also 4th in rebounds. Foote averaged 1.0 points and 1.5 rebounds per game in 4 games for the NBA's New Orleans Hornets during a 10-day contract between March 9 and March 19. Foote was ranked by the D-League as its #6 overall NBA prospect.  During April 2012 he was profiled in a video on NBA.com.  He participated in the Portland Trailblazers' 2011-2012 preseason training camp and played the 2011-2012 preseason with with Zastal of       the PLK Poland premier league and the full 2010-2011 season in Spain (Melilla, LEB Gold Spain 2nd division) while on loan from Euro League powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv of Israel's premier league.

• Visit our growing directory of Cornell Basketball Linkedin profiles.

• Below is a directory listing of some Twitter feeds associated with the Cornell basketball program.

-Josh Wexler ('88)
-Rich Medina ('92)
-Bo Buttenback ('98)
-Dan Wendt ('98)
-Brian Williamson ('03)
-Jacques Vigneault ('03)
-Cody Toppert ('05)
-Steve Cobb ('05)
-Ryan Rourke ('06)
-Andrew Naeve ('07)
-Jason Canady ('08)
-Khaliq Gant ('09)
-Conor Mullen ('09)
-Brian Kreefer ('09)
-Ryan Wittman ('10)
-Pete Reynolds ('10)
-Jon Jaques ('10)
-Louis Dale ('10)
-Alex Tyler ('10)
-Geoff Reeves ('10)
-Jeff Foote ('10)
-Andre Wilkins ('10) (inactive)
-Aaron Osgood ('11)
-Adam Wire ('11)
-Max Groebe ('12)
-Chris Wroblewski ('12)
-Andrew Ferry ('12)
-Jonathan Gray ('13)
-Miles Asafo Adjei ('13)
-Peter McMillan ('13)
-Errick Peck ('13)
-Josh Figini ('13)
-Manny Sahota (former player)
-The Cornell Rebounders Club
-Galal Cancer ()
-Ned Tomic ()
-Dominick Scelfo ()
-Jake Mathews ()
-Dwight Tarwater ()
-Dave LaMore ()
-Shonn Miller ()
-Devin Cherry ()
-Nolan Cressler ()
-Braxston Bunce ()
-Holt Harmon ()
-Robert Mischler ()
-David Onuorah ()
-Robert Hatter ()
-Desmond Fleming ()
-Darryl Smith ()
-Jeremy Hartigan, Cornell SID ()
-Assistant Coach Mike Blaine ()
-Assistant Coach Marlon Sears ()
-Assistant Coach Arlen Galloway ()
-Brian Delaney, ESPN Radio Ithaca ()
-Barry Leonard, Cornell Redcast/Play-By-Play Annnouncer
-Ed Boulat, Ithaca Journal
-Cornell Daily Sun Sports ()
-Slope Sports ()
-WVBR Sports
-Former assistant coach, Jay Larranaga
-Former assistant coach, Ricky Yahn ()
-Former head coach, Steve Donahue ()
-Former intern assistant Ryan Woerner ()
-Former assistant coach, Zach Spiker ()
-Former assistant coach, Nat Graham ()
-Former assistant coach, Woody Kampmann ()
-Former assistant coach, Izzi Metz ()
-Former assistant coach, Paul Fortier ()

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News and Notes: Tuesday Edition

Below, news and notes for Tuesday...

• Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) (above) was quoted in Grantland on a piece about his former pro teammate with Zalgiris (Lithuania), Ibrahim Jaaber (Penn '07).

• Panther Digest and Panther Lair both recap the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro Am action from last night.  Panther Digest writes, "South Hills Audi 99 SPK Law 71.  South Hills Audi took over the leader board in the standings with a dominant 99-71 win over SPK Law.  Nolan Cressler led the way with 28 points in the win. Former Pitt star Chevon Troutman, again, came up big with 18 points and nine rebounds. Tracy Foster led the South Hills Audi team with 10 rebounds, overall.  Another former Panther, John DeGroat, finished in double-figures with 12 points.  Despite the loss, SPK Law had four players in double-figures, led by Jones--playing in back-to-back games. Pitt's Mike Lecak finished with seven points.  Contributing heavily in the heavy victory margin, a 58-36 edge in rebounding by South Hills Audi."  Panther Lair recaps, "The Cresslers combined for 42 of South Hills Audi's 99 points as the squad earned its fourth-straight victory and handed SPK its first loss of the summer in the night's second game.   Nolan Cressler led South Hills Audi with 28 points including 4 for 8 from beyond the arc. Andrew Cressler added 14 tallies of his own and dazzled the Green Tree crowd with a number of high-flying dunks, both in transition and one drives to the basket.  After taking a four-point lead into halftime, South Hills Audi opened the second stanza with a 20-5 run, making it 64-45. The closest SPK would get in the second half was 15 as South Hills Audi continued to control the action.  Pitt alum Chevron Troutman scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the win. Lance Jeter continued his impressive summer play, netting 10 tallies, pulling down nine rebounds and dishing six assists.  Lucky Jones, playing his second game of the night, scored a team-high 18 points for SPK, who were without Lamar Patterson and Mike Young Monday night. C.J. Hester, also pulling double duty on the night, added six points and 12 boards."

• Below, Cornell's Jamal Cherry, is interning at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh.  He is with his internship-mentor, Dr. Grant Bromhal.