Last year’s edition of the Medgar Evers College women’s basketball team.
Photo: CUNY athletic conference
The Brooklyn Tech basketball Engineers’ three-game basketball losing streak came to an end last Friday.
They came out on top against John Jay, 61-51. The win was just what Tech needed coming off a 68-35 defeat in their prior meeting.
Baseer Mirza scored 17 points and grabbed six rebounds with three blocks for the Engineers. That was the first-time this season Mirza posted two-or-more blocks. The team also got some help courtesy of Chadwyck Beckford, who scored 13 points along with nine rebounds.
Tech’s win bumped their record up to 6-4. John Jay fell to 4-5.
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The 41st Annual Original South Florida Basketball Fraternity luncheon — staged last month at Deer Creek Country Club — named Jack Kaminer the recipient of the Marty Groveman “Good Guy” Award.
Kaminer played basketball for Eastern District High School and attended Long Island University on a basketball scholarship. He taught at the elementary school level at three New York City high schools and at CCNY.
His coaching resume includes 32 years at the high school and college level, including successful stints at Wingate High School, Franklin K. Lane, Truman and Scarsdale High School. He’s been inducted in three Hall of Fames and was named “Coach of the Year” 14 times in his career. In 2002 he was inducted into the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame.
Kaminer and his wife Paula founded and directed Focus for a Future which provides scholarships for young boys and girls from under-served communities to attend for-profit summer camps and experience the unique benefits gained by attending such camps.
Last year he placed 391 children in 126 summer camps — which translates to $3,268,000. Focus for a Future has awarded almost $34 million in scholarship assistance.
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