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Frewsburg Claims Second Straight State Title

Bears Beat Greenwich 59-52 In Class C Championship Game

Frewsburg's Jadyn Trocki holds up the NYSPHSAA Class C championship plaque alongside teammates Abery Harvey, center, and Jaden Jimerson, left, after the Bears beat Greenwich in the state title game Saturday evening at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. P-J photo by Matt Spielman

TROY – The Frewsburg Bears are state champions.

Again.

Jadyn Trocki had 26 points, six assists, five rebounds, two steals and two blocked shots as Frewsburg rallied from a double-digit first-half deficit to beat Greenwich 59-52 in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class C title game Saturday evening at Hudson Valley Community College.

The Bears trailed by 13 after one quarter, but Trocki hit a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to pull Frewsburg within three heading into the third quarter.

Trocki gave the Bears their first lead of the game with 5:02 left in the third quarter, but a 7-0 run by the Witches put Frewsburg in another hole.

Frewsburg head coach Sierra Beaver hugs her daughter Blakely after the Bears beat Greenwich in the NYSPHSAA Class C championship game Saturday evening at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. P-J photo by Matt Spielman

Sophomore Elysse Gruber and senior Abery Harvey scored on back-to-back trips before sophomore Jaden Jimerson’s three-point play made it 37-36 Bears with 1:16 left in the period.

They would never trail again.

Greenwich opened the fourth quarter 0 for 9 with two turnovers and didn’t make a field goal until Bailee Wolfe’s basket with 2:20 remaining. By that point, it was 49-40 in favor of Frewsburg.

The Witches cut it to 53-48 with just under a minute remaining on a Brooke Kuzmich 3-pointer, but the Bears went 8 for 8 at the foul line in the final two minutes to put the game away.

Frewsburg became the first Section VI girls program to win back-to-back titles since Pine Valley won three straight from 2003 to 2005. The Bears are also the sixth Class C program to go back to back and first since Millbrook in 2022 and 2023.

Frewsburg assistant coach Jamie Sposato looks toward the crowd after the Bears beat Greenwich in the NYSPHSAA Class C championship game Saturday evening at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. P-J photo by Matt Spielman

NOTES: Harvey had 13 points, four rebounds and two assists; Jimerson had 10 points and three assists; and Gruber had nine rebounds for Frewsburg, which shot 21 of 53 from the field, including 4 of 12 from 3-point range, and turned the ball over nine times. … Bailee Wolfe had 15 points, five rebounds, three blocked shots, three assists and two steals; Olivia Davis had 13 points and nine rebounds; and Kuzmich had 12 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists and two steals for Greenwich, which shot 19 of 56 from the field, including 5 of 22 from 3-point range, and turned the ball over 11 times.

FREWSBURG (59)

Trocki 9 5 26, Jimerson 4 2 10, Stelmack 0 0 0, Darling 0 0 0, Haglund 1 2 5, Moore 1 0 2, Harvey 5 3 13, Gruber 1 1 3. Totals 21 13 59.

GREENWICH (52)

Kuzmich 6 0 12, Gonzalez 0 0 0, BWolfe 5 2 15, Davis 4 5 13, JWolfe 2 2 6, Jansen 2 0 4, Celani 0 0 0. Totals 19 9 52.

3-point goals-Trocki 3, Haglund, Kuzmich 2, BWolfe 3.

Frewsburg 5 19 13 22 – 59

Greenwich 18 9 9 16 – 52

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