Senior Tyreek Jewell had 12 points and five assists and sophomore Glenn Sanabria added 11 points and six helpers for SFC Brooklyn (1-2, 0-0 NEC), which was hoping to get back to. Francis fell to 1-2 on the on the young season following Saturday night’s 76-60 loss to unbeaten St. Over on Remsen Street, the Terriers of St. The game will be televised locally, beginning at 7 p.m., on SNY. The Blackbirds will try to extend their season-opening winning streak Wednesday at none other than Frink’s alma mater, Florida International. Hernandez had 16 points, including a clutch game-tying 3-pointer, and junior Aakim Saintil and Hermannsson added 15 apiece in Sunday’s win as LIU erased a 12-point second-half deficit. In all three of them, we had to do a good job on the defensive end down the stretch so I’m very proud of our guys for making plays. “We’ve got a lot of them on our schedule this year.
“That’s three-for-three with what we like to call them 50/50 games,” said Perri. Perri is certainly glad he’s got Frink for the next two years after three narrow victories that could have easily gone the other way if not for the presence of the most popular transfer student on campus. It is just me being at the right place at the right time.” It was a lot on the line so I just stood my ground and got the block. My main focus was trying to stop the ball because we were down one. We knew we had to block them out and contain the ball. “Our main focus was on the defense,” said Frink, who earned NEC Player of the Week honors after averaging 17 points, eight rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game during his first tour with the Blackbirds. Antony’s High School standout capped an 18-point, seven-rebound, four-block night by swatting away North Carolina Central’s bid for a game-winning shot as time expired, preserving LIU’s 78-77 win in its home away from home on the corners of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. Three days later, Frink helped to ice an 84-79 victory over Maine in the Blackbirds’ home opener at the Wellness Center, slamming home two of his 25 points with a thunderous dunk in the final minute off a feed from Hernandez.Īnd just this past Sunday at Barclays, Frink and company were at it yet again. “That was just a tremendous play by a few different guys.”īut Frink and the Blackbirds (3-0, 0-0 NEC) were just getting started. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that,” Perri said of the wild ending. Frink, a 6-foot-7 forward from Jersey City, N.J., keyed the game-winning sequence in LIU’s season opener at Loyola (Maryland) the Monday before last when he blocked a shot directly toward Martin Hermannsson, who fired a pass to fellow junior Joel Hernandez, resulting in a buzzer-beating 3-pointer and a thrilling 71-68 triumph that made all of the national highlight programs.
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