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PSAL Class A girls basketball semis roundup: Wings soars past West 50th

The Lady Wings of Wings Academy celebrate their win over West 50th Street Campus.

The Lady Wings of Wings Academy celebrate their win over West 50th Street Campus. (Kendall Rodriguez)

Tyler Moses of Wings Academy celebrates from the bench . (Kendall Rodriguez)

If it’s Wings Academy versus The World, put a mark in the win column for the girls from The Bronx.

The third-seeded Lady Wings defeated No. 3 West 50th Street Campus, 55-38, in the PSAL Class A girls basketball semifinals Sunday at Hunter College in Manhattan. Wings (25-1) was down 23-4 early on, but outscored West 50th (23-5), 51-15, the rest of the way.

“We’re real,” coach Juan Gonzalez said. “I’ve been telling people all season. Everybody has been doubting us. … We’ve been fighting adversity all season.”

Gonzalez was upset with PSAL officials before the game for not letting one of his assistant coaches, Wayne Johnson, sit on the bench with the team. Johnson’s name was not listed on the Lady Wings’ PSAL.org team page due to a computer error. Before the quarterfinals, the coach was incensed because he was told by administrators to “manage the score” because of some lopsided victories Wings had this season.

“My girls depend on these coaches being there,” Gonzalez said. “They’ve been there since Day One.”

It didn’t end up mattering. Wings stopped its fullcourt press and actually moved to a tough halfcourt defense that troubled West 50th, which was missing injured star forward Jade Venson. The Lady Wings were still able to run up and down the court and guards Latasia Ward and Aquillin Hayes were excellent. Ward had 18 points and Hayes had 15. Rykema Stone, who had a big second half, added 13 points.

“The whole team dug deep,” Gonzalez said. “It’s all about a team. That’s why you’re not seeing Latasia score 30 or 40 points.”

From the beginning of the season, Gonzalez has told his players to play with chips on their shoulders. Now they’re one game away from the chip.

“This is yours,” he told them. “Don’t let nobody take it from you.”

Not the nay sayers and not the PSAL, which has drawn Gonzalez’s ire.

“They really don’t want us to go nowhere,” he said.

But with one more win, the Lady Wings could be headed to Glens Falls.

Medgar Evers 58, School of the Future 46: Nandi Pyle had 19 points, Jasmin Robinson had nine points and Shakila Small added eight and 11 rebounds for top-seeded Medgar Evers (23-2), which was ahead by only four points late in the game.

“Last year, we got screwed by being the No. 1 seed, this year we got saved by being the No. 1 seed,” Cougars coach Barney Davis said. “Today there was no way we could have beaten Wings.”

Ashley Castle had a few big baskets down the stretch, Nairobi Colon had a clutch 3-pointer and key steals and Verdine Warner had nine rebounds and 10 blocked shots. But No. 12 Future (13-5), the hottest team in the tournament, hung around for a long time.

“They were on a mission,” Davis said.

mraimondi@nypost.com