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TimesLedger Athlete of the Week: Bryan Geffen

Name: Bryan Geffen

School: St. Francis Prep

Sport: Basketball

Position: Guard

Year: Junior

Height: 5-foot-10

Weight: 160

The Bryan Geffen Show rolled along this week, as the junior out of Bayside continued to light up the scoreboard for the St. Francis Prep boys’ varsity basketball team.

Geffen finished with a game-high 34 points in leading Prep to a crucial 91-86 upset, an overtime win over the Archbishop Molloy Stanners Sunday in Briarwood.

The 5-foot-10 guard, who can play either the point or shooting guard positions, led the Terriers in scoring a year ago and in doing the same again this season. His 34-point performance Sunday came on the heels of a 28-point output against the Rice Raiders, a game the Terriers lost by 10, 94-84.

With Geffen controlling the ball, the Terriers have become one of the biggest surprises in the CHSAA this season. The team is 14-7 overall and 4-6 in the ever-competitive CHSAA SuperLeague. The win over Molloy solidifies that point head coach Tim Leary has been trying to prove all year, that Prep can beat the better teams in the league.

Come playoff time, Geffen and Co. will hope to prove that to a few more teams.

Honor Roll

While LeBron James stole most of the headlines at the PrimeTime Shootout, Christ the King’s Mitchell Beauford scored 24 points in leading the Royals to a 76-51 win over Syracuse’s Christian Brothers Academy at the tournament, held in Trenton, N.J. … Michael Johnson scored 19 for Holy Cross in a 74-64 loss to St. Raymond’s last week … Caitlin Kennedy scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead St. Francis Prep over Bishop Kearney, 62-53 … Keri-Anne Jetter scored 18 for Archbishop Molloy in a 67-48 non-league win over St. Anthony’s … Joe Temperini scored two against St. Peter’s as Holy Cross skated to a 6-4 win over St. Peter’s Sunday. He also registered a hat trick against Christ the King in a 5-3 Cross win earlier in the week.