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The Bishop Ford Falcons varsity basketball team clinched second place and received a first round buy into the Class ‘A' Division of the Catholic High Schools Athletic Association basketball playoffs.

Led by sophomore guards Marc Jones and Damani Campbell and junior forward Joshua Blograve, the Varsity Falcons sport a 5-4 league slate and 8-11 overall after their initial 19 games as they head down the home stretch of the schedule.

The young Falcons went through some growing pains at the beginning of the season when they had two sophomores and three juniors as starters. They have certainly improved since early in the campaign.

The Falcons lost some close league games, including one to Cardinal Hayes, and got some key league wins in beating McClancy and Xavier.

Blograve has come on and has played great ball. He is the most successful player, averaging about 20 points a game. He had a couple of good games and is being looked at as one of the best players in the ‘A' Division of the league.

His high scoring game was 27 points against Xavier and in the team's first contest against McClancy. Last year, he averaged around 15 points an outing. He is also averaging around 12 rebounds.

Falcons rally from eight-point deficit late to beat Kellenberg in OT

• By DYLAN BUTLER
• Last Updated: 12:27 PM, February 2, 2010
• Posted: 2:11 AM, February 1, 2010

“They showed a lot of resiliency, a lot of heart and a lot of determination,” Bishop Ford coach John Infortunio said. “Kellenberg is tough. They gave us everything we could handle.”

Hall was held to just two points through the first three quarters.

by Dylan Butler on Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:41 AM  / Updated Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:39 AM

SETH WALDER

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The hard work and early mornings are just starting to pay dividends for Aaliyah Jones.

The sophomore guard at Bishop Ford has many memories of 6 a.m. wake-ups — extra early, she said, because she takes a long time to get ready — in Charlotte, N.C., working out with her dad and her cousin.

“It was no break for me: We just played ball, played ball, played ball,” Jones said. Any chance they got, her father would take her down to Charlotte to visit his niece, teaching them both to play basketball in the process.
 

When she reached high school at Bishop Ford, the tall, lanky teenB still had her father running her through drills.

But this time, he was her coach.

Rick Jones ran the Bishop Ford J.V. squad, while Aaliyah ran the show as the point guard.

“It’s hard to deal with your father as your coach; you don’t want to hold grudges,” Jones said, smiling. “But at the end of your day, he’s your coach on the court but your father when you step off.

“Basically, he taught me everything I know.”

Even at home, the coaching continued. Rick Jones said he used to sit in the living room with Aaliyah, watching basketball, and he would freeze the game on his DVR and ask her what she would do in certain situations.

MITCH ABRAMSON

Saturday, October 27, 2012

In an emotional ceremony in which tears were shed not by a parent but by a player, Bishop Ford senior point guard Aaliyah Lewis announced on Friday that she would play basketball at St. John's next fall.
  Following a routine introduction in which Lewis thanked her coaches and family for helping her get to this point, the normally stoic Lewis paused to control her emotions. A moment turned into several seconds as Lewis buried her head in her hands as she sat on a dais under the basket in the Bishop Ford gym with her coach, Mike Toro, to her right and assistant coach Mary Gillespie on her left. Friends and teammates clapped their hands and encouraged her to go on, and she did, wiping away the tears.   “I’m now proud to announce my commitment to St. John’s,” she said moments later.   For a moment, Toro thought Lewis might have had second thoughts and changed her decision. But Lewis chose the Red Storm over Seton Hall and Virginia Tech.   “I said to myself in the beginning that I’m not going to cry,” the 5-3 point guard said. “Right about when I was going to announce the school it got very emotional for me. And I couldn’t believe it, that I’m really announcing my school. So I just broke down.