Oliver Antigua was beside himself on the sidelines. All Hallows doesn’t have a player over 6-foot-3 and his St. Raymond team was hoisting up jump shot after jump shot, ignoring Division I-bound swingmen Daniel Dingle and Kerwin Okoro inside.
“Guys, what are we doing? We talked about this,” Antigua said he told his players. “At halftime, I said, ‘Dingle is on fire. Let’s keep feeding him the ball.’”
The Ravens started listening in the second quarter, where Dingle had 14 of his 27 points. St. Ray’s took the lead there and didn’t look back against All Hallows for a 70-54 victory in the CHSAA Class AA boys basketball intersectional quarterfinals Sunday night at Fordham University in The Bronx. St. Raymond gets a rematch with Cardinal Hayes in the semifinals 6 p.m. Wednesday at St. John’s University, where it has lost the last two seasons.
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St. Raymond's Daniel Dingle had 14 of his 27 points in the second quarter and added eight rebounds in the Ravens' quarterfinal victory.
“I was just one-on-one down there by myself,” the 6-foot-7 Dingle said of his post positioning multiple times. “I think that’s a basket.”
All Hallows (10-15) hung around for a long time, though. The Gaels were within 43-39 with 3:27 left in the third quarter after a John Brens three-point play. With 2:40 left in the game, Brens had five straight points to get All Hallows as close as 62-54. St. Ray’s (19-9) was playing its Bronx rival for a fourth time this year and second time in the postseason after beating All Hallows in the Archdiocesan quarterfinals.
“They shot the ball well early,” Antigua said of the Gaels. “They put a lot of pressure on us. They fought until the end. They’re almost like a big man away from being a really dangerous team.”
Okoro had 14 points and 13 rebounds and Dingle added eight rebounds. Davon Robinson had 15 points, Raz Council had 14 points, Ethan Hamlet had 12 points and Brens added 11 for All Hallows, which upset Xaverian in the second round on Thursday.
“They came out with the first punch and we responded,” Dingle said.
Now St. Raymond gets Hayes once again after falling to the Cardinals twice during the regular season and beating them in the Archdiocesan semifinals. There is bad blood between the two programs. The Ravens didn’t like the way their rivals celebrated on their court after the first win and liked even less what Hayes coach Joe Lods said about them before the Archdiocesan game. Antigua even went as far as to thank Lods for motivating his team to victory with the “trash talk.”
Adding to the storyline is the fact that St. Ray’s has lost at St. John’s in disappointing fashion each of the last two seasons to Christ the King. CK is out of the playoffs now – Mount beat the two-time defending champs Sunday in the quarters – but the goal is still the same for the Ravens.
“This time I’m trying to leave with a win,” Dingle said. “My team, we’re amped and hungry.”
mraimondi@nypost.com
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