Baldwin Boys Basketball Featured in Newsday

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Dylan Cudjoe and Gabe Phillips were lost for the season before it even tipped off. The Baldwin bigs were cousins with talent and torn ACLs.

Then Mical Saint Jean, the Bruins’ top scorer over the first five games, sprained an ankle in practice Friday. The junior shooting guard is expected to miss a couple of weeks.

But this basketball team still has steady 5-8 senior point guard Ethan Sainsbury to run the show and its defense never rests. And so it keeps on overcoming and winning.

Sainsbury scored 15 points, including four key free throws, and the full-court defensive pressure forced 19 turnovers. So Baldwin beat Uniondale, 38-28, Saturday in the Gary Charles Hoop Classic at Chaminade and moved to 5-1 following its fourth straight victory.

“I’ve got the two best bigs for Long Island on the bench, and then one of the top scorers on Long Island gets hurt in practice the night before a big game like this,” said Darius Burton, the Bruins’ 26th-year coach.

“Our motto all season has been, ‘Next man up.’ The guys stepped up. They truly stepped up. I’m so proud of them.”

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