Canarsie Coed Is PSAL Girls B Division Leading Scorer
By Eric Goodman

Lori Pettaway (right), of East 86 Street, was awarded a plaque, denoting her as the top PSAL B Division scorer, from the league’s Assistant Girls’ Basketball Commissioner Virginia Matthews, during the recent playoffs at St. Francis College. Terrence Hammond

Canarsien Lori Pettaway knows the importance of keeping her game sharp, which is why she plays for her father’s AAU Brooklyn Rim Rockers and plans to attend basketball camp in Pennsylvania this summer, in addition to just completing her junior season as the leading scorer in the PSAL B girls division with varsity basketball team at Leon M. Goldstein High School in Manhattan Beach.

Although Pettaway’s team did not earn a berth in the recent PSAL Championships at Madison Square Garden, her name was still known to fans as the leading scorer of the B division with a total of 419 points this past season.

"Having the support of a loving mother, father and sister has definitely helped me succeed," says the 16-year old coed, who lives on East 84 Street and is an alumnus of Isaac Bildersee Intermediate School 68.

Pettaway’s presence on the Goldstein squad was important as she helped turn around a team that finished in last place last year into an impressive 12-6 third place team that lost in the first round of the playoffs to Brandeis this year.

"Teams didn’t take us seriously this year because Goldstein was so terrible last year. But we definitely surprised a lot of them," says Pettaway, who played her first season with the school this year after transferring from Manhattan’s Murray Bergtraum High School following her freshman year.

Pettaway hopes to attend a Division I college after graduation and is eager to play basketball there.

"I’d like to play basketball at Hofstra because I think they have a good program and hopefully I can help them get better," says Pettaway.

Because the PSAL leading scorer was senior Latoya Brathwaite from A Division Martin Luther King High School; Pettaway is confident of possibly leading the entire city in scoring next year.

"Being that I’ll be a senior next year I figure that I’ll have a very good shot at leading both divisions in scoring," said an enthusiastic Pettaway.

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