Editor’s note: Daniel Bench is a rising senior at Edgemont High School and an intern with The Scarsdale Inquirer. He competed at the New Balan…
One look around the stadium at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus and Edgemont junior Connor Fisher knew what he had to do.
For a pair of local track and field stars, this was their time to shine on the big stage competing against the best in the state on June 10 and 11 at the New York State track and field championship meet at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.
He never tried it until the winter season, never competed in the event until this spring season, and now he is on his way to the New York State track and field championships in Syracuse.
A thrilling win at home in the playoffs most of the time gives teams a ton of confidence. The Edgemont Panthers, heading into a road playoff game, were definitely riding high with confidence heading into their matchup against the top seed Pearl River. However, Pearl River showed exactly why …
Shorthanded and overmatched, the nine Edgemont softball freshmen and sophomores didn’t seem fazed as the No. 12 seed heading to play No. 5 Hastings on the road in the opening round of the Section 1 Class B tournament on a rainy Friday, May 20.
From less than a handful of qualifiers for the Section 1 Class B Championships to an entourage, the Edgemont track and field team has made great strides from last spring to this spring.
From being hospitalized in March to running personal best times all spring, senior Connor Gerraughty went from a major scare to a major threat for Edgemont track and field.
Edgemont girls golf coach Mitch Shapiro could not have scripted the team’s season more perfectly. The Panthers had a winning record and sent a pair of golfers to the Section 1 championships.
The road to the Section 1 finals wasn’t easy for the Edgemont boys tennis team, and neither was the ride home afterward. After a pair of 3-2 wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals, the Panthers lost 3-2 to Byram Hills, which they had split with 4-3 and 4-3 in sharing the league title this spring.
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…
The Edgemont and Scarsdale softball teams both qualified for sectionals in Class B and AA, respectively.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 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 …
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 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.
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…
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.
Finally, it felt like spring. Edgemont spring athletics were in full swing and all eyes were on Blanford Field for the home opener of the Edgemont girls lacrosse team on Monday, April 4.
In close slugfest No. 3, the Edgemont softball team got its first win of the season.
In the frigid cold weather on Tuesday, March 29, some may have expected a slow-paced and low-scoring game. Instead, it was a high-scoring nail-biter.
The action was fast and intense. You could feel the passion as teammates cheered each other on with each attack and strike.
The Edgemont boys basketball team had the program’s best season in over two decades this winter, earning a 16-4 regular season record, two postseason wins, made the Section 1 Class B semifinals for the first time in 16 years and came close to the finals in an overtime loss, all good for an 1…
Just qualifying for the Section 1 Class B Championship in track and field was an achievement for Edgemont freshman Ava Thomas. But to make it in three diverse events and place top 13 in all of them was an exclamation point on a stellar winter season.
It was easy to understand why Edgemont wrestling coach Pete Jacobson was walking around the arena with a smile on his face.
When Rye Neck and Edgemont boys basketball met in the second game of the season in December, senior Ben Landes came off the bench to deliver a game-winning shot for Edgemont. In the rematch in the Section 1 Class B quarterfinals, Landes made his mark on the game in the second half, but after…
Leah Paley could be the “best all-around skier” in Section 1, according to Edgemont coach Dan Cherico.
For a team that hadn’t won a game all season, drew the No. 14 seed and was missing three starters, a 63-40 loss in the Section 1 opening round was a solid showing for the Edgemont girls basketball team.
After pounding the Rivertowns Legends goalie Ryan O’Hagan with 43 shots, the Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville/Edgemont ice hockey team had only two goals to show for it in the opening round of the Section 1 Division 1 tournament, while Rivertowns took advantage of 20 shots to score eight goals.
You could tell the senior starters wanted it. No. 4 Edgemont’s big four posted 66 points between them in the opening round of the Section 1 Class B opening round against No. 13 Woodlands en route to a 78-60 victory.
As the 145-pound final at the Section 1 Division 2 wrestling championship tournament was about to begin, a referee turned with a smile behind him to where Edgemont assistant coaches Chris Kim and Cliffton Wang were sitting in the coaches corner.
In Section 1’s first ever girls ice hockey New York State tournament game, Section 1 East fell just short to eventual state champion Skaneateles in the regional final. In a 5-2 game, including an empty net goal for Skaneateles, Section 1 actually outshot its opponent 18-8, but fell short on …
