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Voice of Cyclones silenced BY DANIEL BUSH Warner Fusselle, the voice of the Brooklyn Cyclones, died of a heart attack on Sunday night, members of the minor-league baseball team said. He was 68. Fusselle, a veteran radio broadcaster affectionately known as “The Fuse,” joined the Cyclones before the team’s inaugural season in 2001 and called nearly every game in the team’s history. He was preparing for his 12th season behind the microphone when he passed. Longtime colleagues said Fusselle’s charm, baseball knowledge, and signature “Live from the Catbird’s seat” call — a tip of the hat to legendary Brooklyn Dodgers announcer Red Barber — before every game quickly endeared him to fans coming to Coney Island’s MCU Park. “He could do anything as a broadcaster,” said Ed Shakespeare, a close friend and Brooklyn Paper Cyclones columnist who sat next to Fusselle during hundreds of home games. “Warner was a consummate professional. The Cyclones were lucky to have him.” Cyclones General Manager Steve Cohen said the team — which is scheduled to kick off its season on Monday — was left rat-
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Say courts are a mess BY COLIN MIXSON
Let’s ride Emily Romeo, 7, stands next to her daddy’s ’97 Corvette Coupe LS-1 5.7 Liter at Sunday’s antique car show at Photo by Steve Solomonson Floyd Bennett Field. For more see page 17.
Tennis buffs are lobbing vitriol-fueled volleys at the city for failing to fi x Marine Park’s ailing tennis courts, claiming that the play space is in varying states of disrepair and needs to be overhauled. Dozens of tennis enthusiasts say they have fired off letters to Councilman Lew Fidler (D–Marine Park), the Parks Department, and Borough Hall, demanding new courts for Marine Park — but their pleas have gone unanswered. “They need to be fi xed,” said Hazel Remdin, a Marine Park resident who plays tennis at the corner of Fillmore Avenue and E. 32nd Street. “I’m always worried I’m going to run over a crack and twist my ankle.” Felix Vandalous, a tennis Continued on Page 10
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It was just fun playing against them.’ — Christ the King’s Sierra Calhoun on Rose Classic
• ‘We want to be the best team in the area.’ — Hofstra transfer Shaquille Stokes
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VICTORY: (Above) Grand Street Campus players carry coach Melvin Martinez on their shoulders after the Wolves win their first city title. (Top right) Grand Street catcher Kevin Martir, who sealed the 2–1 victory, now has titles in both the Public School Athletic League and the Catholic Photos by Christina Santucci High School Athletic League. (Bottom right) Grand Street pitcher Gerry Gonzalez tossed a four-hitter.
Martir helps Grand Street snag city title BY ZACH BRAZILLER Grand Street Campus won its first Public School Athletic League City Baseball Championship on Friday — thanks to a University of Maryland-bound catcher who helped Xaverian High School snag a Catholic High School Athletic League Class AA intersectional crown last spring. Kevin Martir, who transferred into Grand Street at the beginning of the school year after he was expelled from Xaverian, sealed the Wolves’ 2–1 victory over George Washington after driving in a run during the Public School Athletic League Class A finals at MCU Park in Coney Island. “It feels great,” said Martir. “I think I’m the first one.”
Martir promised Grand Street coach Melvin Martinez that he would shine in the postseason. He backed up those bold words with a pair of tworun homers in a semifinal sweep of John Adams last weekend and a first-inning, run-scoring triple on Friday that set the game’s tone. The former Xaverian catcher was a perfect fit for the Grand Street Campus after the Wolves’ lost last year’s cleanup hitter Williams Jerez, who was drafted in the second round of last June’s MLB FirstYear Player Draft. Martir alternated behind the plate and at third base with Ernesto Lopez, just as he did at Xaverian with Elvin Soto, and was
one of the team’s captains. “I said it before, when I lost Williams Jerez, God gave me Kevin Martir from the heavens,” Martinez said. “It was a gift and I took it.” Martir provided protection in the lineup for fellow Maryland signee Jose Cuas and was also a steadying influence during the playoffs for a team that had suffered crushing defeats. When teammates hung their head, he was there to comfort them, reminding them there was plenty of game left to play. “He said we had to play every [playoff] game like it was a regular game,” Cuas said. Martir said the title Grand Street snagged last
week meant more to him than winning last year’s Catholic High School Athletic League championship because it was the Williamsburg school’s first championship and the final game held more suspense. Xaverian cruised to the crown last spring while the Wolves had to grind out the win over George Washington — the Public School Athletic League’s defending champion — in front of a larger and louder crowd. “It makes it more meaningful,” he said. But Martir says he’s gotten used to winning championships. He doesn’t plan on stopping, either. “Hopefully,” he said, “I do the same thing at Maryland.”
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Grad’s cap and frown Senior Lady Kingsmen lose Rose Classic championship BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Talk about a graduation weekend letdown! Several of Nazareth High School’s Lady Kingsmen had just thrown their mortar boards in the air outside their Flatbush school when they were knocked out of the Rose Classic basketball championship during a humiliating 74–65 loss on Saturday — ending their hopes of continuing former coach Apache Paschall’s legacy and grabbing a ninth crown. “It’s emotional on many levels,” said coach Lauren Best, who led Nazareth players Taylor Ford, Darius Faulk, and Lisa Blair in the Rose Classic tourney as Exodus NYC. “For me, I just wish Apache was here to say goodbye.” The players have been a part of two state Federation Class AA titles — one while at since-closed St. Michael Academy — three Catholic High School Athletic Association Class AA state crowns and Nazareth’s fi rst-ever Brooklyn–Queens championship. They are all headed to Division I schools with Faulk (seven points) going to West Virginia,
ONE LAST DRIVE: Exodus NYC’s Taylor Ford runs to the hoop in her Photo by Denis Gostev final game at the Rose Classic. Ford to Syracuse, and Blair going to Ohio State. Rising junior Bianca Cuevas, the league’s most valuable player, poured in a game-high 31 points. As always, Exodus NYC players said everything they did on the boards was
for Paschall. “People’s misconception about him was that he always wanted to win,” Best said. “As long as his girls went to college and they play hard, that’s all that mattered to him. Championships were fun, but in
the end it doesn’t matter as long as we produce good people.” Exodus led 50–42 after Ford (13 points) beat the third quarter buzzer with a three-pointer. But Team Prince took control of the game from there. A 14–2 run, during which each sank a threepointer, gave Team Prince a 62–54 lead with 3:40 remaining. Flaherty scored 30 points, including three three-pointers, and earned game most valuable player honors. Mabrey tallied 19 points and Syracuse-bound guard Brittney Sykes chipped in 10 points. “They set me screens once I got open and I hit the fi rst couple of shots,” Mabrey said. “I felt good with the ball. I felt more confident.” Ford felt Exodus’ defense relaxed too much, allowing Team Prince’s shooters to get into a rhythm. Exodus pulled within 68–63 on four straight Cuevas points, including a layup in transition, but came up empty on too many possessions to reclaim the title and give its seniors a proper send-off, Best explained.
Calhoun sends Falcons past friendly rivals BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Sierra Calhoun treated Saturday’s 52–47 win in the Rose Classic basketball league’s quarterfinals as any other game, but there was a little something extra to this one — the Christ the King star was playing against her own teammates. “It’s always fun to play in the Rose, especially when you are playing against people that you play with,” Calhoun said following the quarterfinal match at JHS 113 in Brooklyn. “It was fun.” Calhoun’s Lady Falcons took on the NYC Lady Warriors, which included plenty of her Christ the King teammates, her assistant coach Joe DeLuca, as well as play-
ers from Bishop Ford. The junior wing scored 17 points during the match, including a huge three-pointer late in the fourth quarter, and four free throws to clinch the game in the closing minutes. The University of Texas at El Paso-bound Shanice Vaughan had 13 points and Loughlin’s Imani Tate added seven. Kristen Drogsler paced the Warriors with 18 points, including four three-pointers. Jill Conroy of Bishop Ford had 10 points and Kollyns Scarbrough of Christ the King chipped in six for the NYC Lady Warriors. “I make sure I win every game,” Calhoun said. “It was just fun playing against them.”
The Rose Classic is the beginning of a busy summer for Calhoun, who is poised to lead the Lady Falcons into the semifinals against the New Jersey Sparks. The No. 9-ranked prospect in her class by HoopGurlz tried out for the USA Basketball U17 team in Colorado Springs, but did not make the squad. Calhoun, who plays her travel ball with the Philly Belles, said it was a great learning experience and she is hungry for a chance to come back and make the team going into her senior year, much like former Christ the King standout Bria Smith did two years ago. “It’s going against some of the other best players in
SWISH: Christ the King’s Sierra Calhoun scored 17 points for the Lady Falcons at the Rose Classic on Saturday. Photo by Denis Gostev
the country,” she said. “It just shows you where you are at.”
PARADISE LOST: Shaquille Stokes has opted to transfer to Photo by Eric Jamison Hofstra from Hawaii.
From Hawaii to Hempstead BY ZACH BRAZILLER Shaquille Stokes is coming home. The former Lincoln standout from Harlem has opted to transfer to Hofstra from Hawaii, he told The Post, picking the Pride over Fordham, Penn State, Niagara, Rhode Island, and St. Peter’s. A 5-foot-11 combo guard, Stokes took unofficial and official visits to Hofstra in the last few weeks and felt it was the perfect fit. “It was just the right decision for me,” Stokes said. “It’s an up-and-coming program, building program, great coaching staff, players I’ve played with growing up. It’s a great opportunity for me to build a name for myself. I can’t ask for anything better.” After averaging 8.4 points and 2.2 assists for the Rainbow Warriors in 20.1 minutes per game, Stokes opted to transfer to be closer to his ill grandmother.
He helped Hawaii go 16–16 overall and 6–8 in the Western Athletic Conference. He scored a season-high 21 points in a season-ending, 92–81 loss to New Mexico State in the WAC semifinals. A first-team Post AllCity performer as a senior at Lincoln, Stokes chose Hawaii over Western Kentucky, Texas Christian University, and Colorado State last spring. He will have three years of eligibility left and, if granted, a waiver will be eligible immediately, letting him join a loaded 2012 recruiting class that includes forwards Darren Payne and Jimmy Hall, guard Dallas Anglin, and red-shirt forward Jordan Allen. Transfers Jamal CoombsMcDaniel (UConn) and Taran Buie (Penn State) will also be eligible. “We can do something special,” he said. “We want to be the best team in the [area].”
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