Eight – count ‘em – eight. That’s the number of Public Schools Athletic League boys’ table tennis titles Brooklyn Technical High School has captured. They won their latest by defeating an undefeated Stuyvesant team last week.
In the boys’ team semi-finals, it was John Jay Campus pitted against the powerful Engineers and John Dewey against Stuyvesant. The finals format – between Tech and Stuyvesant – began with a two out-of-three-game format. Stuyvesant first singles, Jay Chen, won his match against Tech’s Louis Chen. The next two games were won by Tech’s singles, Isaiah Gitman and Ian Ha, helping the Engineers to become the New York City PSAL Boys’ Team Champions.
John Jay Campus punched its ticket to the Girls’ PSAL table tennis finals by storming back from a two-match deficit and sweeping the last singles match and both doubles matches against Benjamin Cardozo High School. The other semi-finals pitted Staten Island Technical High School against defending girls’ champion Stuyvesant High School. With the teams tied at two, everything came down to a tiebreaker between Isabela Liu and Caroline Pham. They split the first four games, forcing a decisive fifth. Trailing 6-8, Liu capitalized on her opponent’s serve to swing the momentum. She rallied to win, 11-9 and ended Stuyvesant’s undefeated run.
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The finals featured another intensely contested team match. After losing the first two matches, John Jay Campus was vying for another comeback. In the third match, the team was up two games and up four points in the third game. Nevertheless, the John Jay team eventually fell victim to a surge by Staten Island Tech who charged back to win 11-9. Tech went on to win the next two games, becoming the New York City PSAL Girls’ Team Champions. It was their third consecutive trip to the finals and the win made a perfect birthday gift for their coach, Evangelos Ginos.
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If Transit Tech was riding high fresh off their 77-40 takedown of Lafayette last Thursday, their most recent game may have dampened their spirits a bit. The Express took a 71-58 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Truman Mustangs, Monday.
Transit Tech’s loss dropped their record down to 15-10. As for Truman, they’ve won five of their last six and moved to 18-6 this season.
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Pratt Institute will become the first institution outside the current eight members of the City University of New York Athletic Conference to help establish a newly expanded NCAA Division III conference set to begin competition in the 2027-28 academic year. The conference, which is currently in the naming, branding and incorporation stages, focuses on institutions near New York City. Additional expansion is expected.
The Cannoneers will begin competition in the new conference in 2027-28. Pratt will join Baruch College, Brooklyn College, City College of New York, Hunter College, John Jay College, Lehman College, Medgar Evers College, and York College. Pratt is a current member of the Atlantic East Conference and will wrap-up membership in that league following the 2026-27 academic year. Pratt becomes the first private institution in the new league. The school sponsors 1 4 NCAA Division III sports, including equestrian, and enrolls approximately 5,100 students. The Cannoneers will compete in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis, and men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field and men’s and women’s volleyball.
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Following a stellar debut season, first-year forward Kurt Thomas of the Pratt Institute men’s basketball team was named the 2025-26 AEC Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year. The first-year from Dallas led the team in scoring averaging, 13.2 points-per-game and helped the team to a 10-win improvement from a year ago. Pratt finished with a 12-13 record.
Pratt junior Anyadire Erima concluded his indoor track season by setting a pair of Season-best times at the Fastrack Last Chance meet at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex.
Erima had a breakout performance in the 60m dash (7.98 seconds) -a personal best. Later in the meet, he set a new season mark in the 200m dash (25.98).
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Graduate student Jamal Fuller, redshirt senior Malachi Davius, senior Greg Gordon and head coach Rod Strickland were all recognized by the Northeast Conference with Strickland being named NEC Coach of the Year.
Gordon received NEC Defensive Player of the Year honors, along with spots on the Second-Team All-NEC and NEC All-Defensive team lists. In addition, Fuller and Davis were both First-Team selections.
Strickland, now in his fourth-season as head coach of the Sharks, guided LIU to its seventh regular-season title in program history, and the first since 2011-12. LIU went 15-3 in the NEC with a 21-10 overall record.
Junior attackman Ben McIsaac scored a career-high six goals and tallied a career-high eight points as LIU’s men’s lacrosse team defeated Bellarmine University, 15-7, Sunday afternoon.
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Brooklyn College third-year women’s basketball coach Megan Campbell was named CUNY Coach of the Year, and junior guard Brianna Jackson and senior forward, Anna Kitch, were voted First-Team All-Conference, while senior guard, Dior Dorsey, received a Second-Team All-Conference. Senior guard, Sandra Diaz, was selected for the conference’s Sportsmanship Team.
All five have helped Brooklyn to a 22-3 record, a regular season conference title and a No. 2 seed in the upcoming ECAC Women’s Basketball Championship Tournament this week. Brooklyn will have a bye through the First Round of play and will take on the winner of the third-seed Keene State and number six seed Lehman College on Saturday, March 14th at McDaniel College. The Championship game for the tourney will be played March 15th at McDaniel.
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Brooklyn College sophomore guard Joe Charles earned First-Team All-Conference accolades and senior guard D’aze Hunter was voted Second-Team All-Conference. In addition, junior guard Abdoulaye Gueye, was selected to the Conference’s Sportsmanship Team. Brooklyn’s men’s basketball team finished a 9-5 conference record and No. 2 seed in the CUNYAC Championship – their highest seed since the 2014-15 season .
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St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn opened their 2026 baseball season falling to FDU- Florham, 24-3, Friday.
The Bears open their home schedule Friday against Lehman College. The game is set for Clover Stadium, home of the New York Boulders of the Frontier League in Pomona, New York.
Andy Furman is a Fox Sports Radio national talk show host. Previously, he was a scholastic sports columnist for the Brooklyn Eagle. He may be reached at: [email protected] X: @AndyFurmanFSR
