A 1-0 lead after the first quarter. A 3-3 tie at halftime. This wasn’t exactly how the No. 3 Scarsdale boys lacrosse team pictured its quarter…
In the biggest pressure situation of the season, Scarsdale junior Matthew Choe took his coach’s advice on his first drive and then took over with precision and nerves of steel to qualify for the New York State championships on a playoff hole.
When Peter Riverso made sectionals for the Edgemont boys golf team in 2017, little did coach George DiChiara know he wouldn’t have a golfer back to that level for five seasons. Junior Ben Tran finally broke that trend this spring, and fell one stroke shy of becoming the first player since Do…
Despite limping around the court for two hours in the Section 1 finals, Scarsdale senior Jason Shuler nearly forced a third set against defending and 2022 champion Emil Grantcharov of New Rochelle, falling 6-2, 7-6 (3).
For the Edgemont Panthers girls lacrosse team, they couldn’t have asked for a better season. Fresh off of winning their first league title in nearly 20 years, which saw sophomore star midfielder Illiana Dimopolous score her 100th career goal, the Panthers were riding high heading into the fi…
Scarsdale’s girls golf team completed a perfect 13-0 regular season and captured another league championship.
Playing a ‘Friday night lights game’ is a special opportunity for sports teams to take advantage of the amplified audience and inspiration, and last Friday, May 13, the Scarsdale girls flag football team soaked up their spotlight during their senior game. While there was worry about the seni…
The Edgemont and Scarsdale softball teams both qualified for sectionals in Class B and AA, respectively.
Freshman Jane Hoffman and sophomores Claudia Rosenberg and Sabrina Katz combined to score 11 goals as the No. 8 Scarsdale girls lacrosse team pounded No. 9 Arlington 17-1 in the opening round of the Section 1 Class A tournament Tuesday, May 17.
In the fourth quarter with time running out in a playoff game with the score all tied up, it all comes down to who will make the big plays to win the game, and there were a lot of big plays made by a lot of players for Edgemont as the Panthers hosted Nanuet in the first round of the Section …
Edgemont’s girls lacrosse squad had a big week in preparation for sectionals with dominant wins over Keio (17-1, May 5), Ardsley (11-3, May 9) and Haldane (11-4, May 10).
Heading into a league, county or class meet, track and field coaches and teams often have a sense of where they’ll fall amongst the competition. A meet like the Joe Wynne Somers Lions Club Invitational with dozens of teams of all shapes and sizes is more about competing well and preparing fo…
Tuesday afternoon was a special one for families of seniors on Scarsdale’s varsity baseball team. Before its matchup against New Rochelle, the team recognized the seniors during the Senior Day ceremony on May 10.
The Edgemont track and field coaches are rebuilding their program the old-fashioned way: by recruiting. If you’re an athlete who is not playing a sport in the winter or the spring, you’re probably on their radar.
Just based on the makeup of his roster, it’s hard for Scarsdale softball coach Kevin Carrigan to keep the word “sophomores” out of his vocabulary. Last year it was “freshmen” and no doubt next year it will be “juniors.”
It was a very physical game. Sticks were checked, players were shoved down and both teams showed frustration trying to score on offense. But in the end, the Edgemont Panthers came out on top, defeating the Dobbs Ferry Eagles 12-10, in a very hard fought game Tuesday, May 10.
It was a similar situation as last year for the Scarsdale boys’ varsity lacrosse team as the Raiders found themselves Thursday, May 5 on the road at rival Mamaroneck heading into overtime.
For seven seasons of field hockey and lacrosse over four years — the lone exception being the spring of 2020 when there was no lax season — Angela Hoey has been Scarsdale’s starting goalie and pretty much finished every game she started. Monday, May 9, was different.
The frustration is over for Joshua Dalal. After missing last baseball season due to a torn labrum in his throwing arm and surgery, he’s back on the field almost better than ever as a junior, joined by his sophomore brother Ryan Dalal. If it hadn’t been for the injury, both of them would have…
The Edgemont softball youth movement is real and the slugfests continue. After falling by one run to Irvington, the Panthers rattled off two wins to double their win total to four and improving to 4-7.
Scarsdale’s boys lacrosse team improved its record to .500 at 6-6 after a 15-5 rout of host North Rockland on Monday, May 2.
It was an interesting week for Scarsdale’s flag football team.
It was either rebuild or reload and the Scarsdale boys golf team reloaded this season. One veteran, however, has helped keep the Raiders near the top of the pack this spring in only his second season of varsity golf.
The Edgemont Panthers girls lacrosse team is on quite the roll of late. After easily handling Keio Academy 15-0 last Saturday, April 30, the Panthers won a huge rematch at home over Rye Neck in dreary weather conditions, 15-7, on Monday, May 2, to avenge a 14-13 loss to Rye Neck earlier in t…
After a bunch of close losses, the Edgemont boys’ varsity lacrosse team was looking to turn it around and the Panthers responded with a pair of victories over Eastchester and Yonkers to give them hope for a big finish.
The Scarsdale boys tennis team found the perfect way to rebound from their 4-3 loss to Edgemont, by topping rival Horace Greeley in their next match by a 4-3 score.
Seniors Jake Feuerstein, Patrick Kantor and Jack Lazarus and sophomore Tyler Pierro all played varsity football together last fall for Scarsdale High School. This spring, their family members are playing girls flag football together, while several others are following in their brothers’ path…
Eva Gibney and Avery Bensche each placed first to lead Scarsdale at the Red Raider Relays, which took place at North Rockland High School on April 22 and 23. Bensche won the long jump with a leap of 16-10 while Gibney took first in the pole vault with an 8-0.
The hits just kept coming, and it was just what the Scarsdale High varsity softball team needed as the Raiders pulled away from Edgemont for a 19-6 victory Monday, April 25, at Supply Field.
It was a dreary Tuesday afternoon. Constant storm clouds loomed, the seats were soaking wet, and the rain came down in short spurts. But for the Edgemont Panthers girl lacrosse team, the weather never seemed to slow them down, as they comfortably won on April 26 over the Blind Brook Trojans,…
Following eight losses to open the season, the Scarsdale baseball team put up back-to-back wins over Edgemont and Port Chester on Monday and Tuesday, April 25 and 26, behind complete games from captains Tommy Chesnut and Koby Krausz.
Possibly for the first time in school history — certainly for the first time this century — David slayed Goliath in boys tennis when Edgemont, trailing 3-1, won the final three matches to defeat Scarsdale 4-3.
The Scarsdale boys golf team is so stacked this year that coach Andy Verboys is already trying to get all 13 of his golfers enough matches to qualify for sectionals. The team record is nine, which Scarsdale has achieved twice.
Though they are only three matches into the season, the two-time defending Section 1 champion and defending New York State champion (from 2019) Scarsdale girls golfers are off to an incredible start after reloading the lineup with four freshmen. The 3-0 Raiders have shot 219, 214 and 220 in …
In boys golf, Scarsdale handily defeated White Plains 202-246 on Monday, April 18 at Fenway Golf Club.
The bus arrived late and the game started a half hour past the scheduled start time, but once Scarsdale’s girls flag football team got settled in, the Raiders were able to shake off the nerves and dominate.
Improvement has been made and there have been plenty of glimpses of potential, but it comes down to consistently putting together a full 50-minute game for Scarsdale’s girls lacrosse squad.
When Ethan Rifkin was a freshman, he watched Dorji Phuntsho dominate as a thrower for the Scarsdale spring track and field team. Now as a senior, Rifkin, despite not having a 2020 season and having a shortened 2021 season due to COVID-19, is peaking with his senior year performances.
The windy weather started to take shape Monday, April 18, in the middle of a baseball game at Edgemont. The weather was a factor, as many routine plays seemed difficult for the Panthers to make, as they lost both games at home on Monday to the Dobbs Ferry Eagles in a doubleheader. The Eagles…
Each coming off a post-vacation win Monday, April 18, the Scarsdale and Edgemont softball teams were set to play the next day until overnight rain took Supply Field out of commission. The Raiders will host the Panthers on April 25 instead, as both teams will have a packed scheduled in the fi…
A 7-1 halftime lead against North Salem was encouraging for the Edgemont boys lacrosse team. An 8-5 final score after North Salem won the second half 4-1 was not.
The upside of having a junior varsity program for the first time in many years is that the Edgemont girls lacrosse program will have a feeder program gaining valuable experience before heading to the varsity level. The downside is a much shorter bench for both teams.
Scarsdale’s boys lacrosse team has run the gauntlet with its schedule this season and that trend continued as the Raiders went 1-2 in their last three games.
Scarsdale is the defending Section 1 golf team champion — for boys and girls — and there’s no reason to believe both teams won’t be defending their titles later this season.
Errors in the third inning and walks in the seventh inning proved costly as an 8-1 Scarsdale softball lead turned into a 10-9 walk-off win for host Ossining on Wednesday, April 13.
Following a 6-1 win over New Rochelle to open the season and a 6-1 loss to Mamaroneck, Edgemont senior boys tennis captains Alex Lee and Will Mellis stepped up for their teams in a big way. Each player had the clinching win — Lee in a 4-3 victory over Scarsdale B, Mellis in a 4-3 victory ove…
In the end it was not the result they were looking for, but the Scarsdale girls varsity lacrosse team walked off the field knowing they are turning the corner.
Scarsdale’s track and field team started the spring season in style with some notable results at the Section 1 Duals at the JFK Sports Complex on Sunday, March 27. The Raiders competed against Mamaroneck and Port Chester in the tri-meet.
One thing Scarsdale baseball coach Jeff Weigel knew coming into the season was he would be relying heavily on catcher Ryan Cahaly. The senior, who has been captain of three teams this year, has lived up to the hype by handling a still young pitching staff — everyone on last year’s team was a…
The Edgemont Panthers baseball team lost their first two games by a combined score of 24-1. In those two away games, they gave up 10 runs and four runs in the first inning.
