Pearl River Basketball Squads Set for County Games Monday

The Pearl River boys and girls basketball teams will both play face Suffern in county games Monday.

The girls will play at Suffern at 4 p.m. while the boys game will be at Pearl River at 5:45 p.m.  Both games are rematches of contests in the regular season. The Pearl River girls defeated Suffern, 70-24, Dec. 30, while the boys won at Suffern, 63-60, in overtime Jan. 23.

Pearl River's girls basketball team (16-1) missed out on the opportunity to defend its Rockland County Championship when it lost a coin flip to Albertus Magnus (16-1) Thursday. Albertus Magnus will play Clarkstown North 1 p.m. Saturday at Clarkstown South in the girls county title game, followed by Tappan Zee playing North Rockland for the boys title at 3 p.m.

The Albertus Magnus boys basketball team will also play in a county game Monday, facing Clarkstown South at 6 p.m. at home.

Six Pearl River wrestlers will compete in the Section 1 championships Saturday and Sunday at Lincoln High School in Yonkers -- John Muldoon (96 pounds), Rob Gullo (130), Stee Moreno (135), Cameron Bruzzi (145), Kenta Umezaki (160) and Kyle Hartigan (189). The event starts with weigh-ins 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning.