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Flyers Basketball Looks to Overcome in 2011-12 Season

Chaminade looking to get past injuries as head coach James Quinn will retire at end of season.

To say that the 2011-12 basketball season will be the end of an era at is not hyperbole; it is simply fact.

This season will be head coach James Quinn’s last as head coach, ending a 25-year run at the varsity level and a 40-year career where he graduated as a Flyer.

Not that Quinn is making it easy on himself in his final year, you understand.

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“If we’re healthy it’s going to be different,” Quinn said Tuesday afternoon during a practice against Long Beach.

Of the 13 Flyer players listed on the roster, only eight practiced during the session.

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Senior PG John Gallego, a lefty, was out to a sprained ankle but Quinn says he will be in on the Flyer’s first game on Saturday against St. Dominic’s for the Long Island Challenge.

At center the Flyers have another hole to fill as 6’6” center John Patterson had surgery Thursday while his backup has mono and the third string has a neck injury.

Right now Quinn and the other players will rest a larger piece of the burden on senior Patrick Farrell. “That’s going to be a big difference when he’s in the game” Quinn said of the forward when he will be in the game with support.

The hope is that the team can get through December when they will be back at full strength come January when much of the league action takes place.

The Flyers turned in a 19-7 record in the 2010-11 season, in the league championship at Hofstra.


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