Agnes in 2008 and has applied most of his old coach’s principles this season. Agnes after last year to focus on his career as a teacher at Xavier, where he is also a basketball assistant coach Gjieli graduated from St. “I feel like that gives us four straight years to make a run,” he said.ĭolan left St. Gjieli, at the least, expects to be a contender until the two young bigs graduate. The Stags tried moving up to the ‘A’ after winning the ‘B’ title in 2008, but struggled. Agnes will have all three of those core players back next year, Gjieli has no designs on moving up from the ‘B’ league. He’s already got the body and build of someone 17 or 18 years old.” “Dimencio is a lot like Kerry when Kerry was a senior,” said Gjieli, who played for Dolan and was his assistant for five years. Vaughn, who clearly has a basketball pedigree, already has the makings of a prospect. Davis, Gjieli said, will improve his guard skills as his career goes on. The coach said the two of them could end up being scholarship players, like Kerry Weldon (UMass-Lowell) was two years ago out of St. “The second half of the season, both of them have played ridiculously well,” Gjieli said. Vaughn and Davis, though, weren’t quite polished at that point. The two teams split in the regular season, with Sacred Heart winning the first meeting. 3 Sacred Heart in the semifinals Tuesday night at Fordham Prep. Those two and junior guard Brian Zorrilla have helped St. Agnes also boasts 6-foot-6 freshman big man Kashif Davis to make up a frontcourt that would be feared far beyond CHSAA Class B, where the Stags reside. “I asked him, ‘You sure you don’t want to come back?’” Gjieli said with a laugh. Not long after, the 23-year-old coach was on the phone with his mentor, former St.
The second or third time Vaughn touched the ball in that first preseason workout, he threw down a monster dunk, Gjieli said. Agnes coach had no idea that Vaughn, the 6-foot-4 freshman brother of New York Liberty star Kia Vaughn, was going to be on his team this year. Anton Gjieli admitted to being “shocked” the first time he saw Dimencio Vaughn play.
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