Placing third of five in the league for the girls and third of four for the boys, the Scarsdale track and field team did its best to score poi…
Improvement and promise define the Scarsdale wrestling team’s performance this past weekend at the annual Scarsdale Invitational Tournament. The Raiders took seventh place out of 15 teams, competing against top tier teams from Long Island, as well as teams from Rockland and Westchester counties.
Swim and dive coaches love newcomers, whether they will be molded into the future of the team or come in and make an immediate impact. The Ardsley/Hastings/Edgemont/Dobbs Ferry/Irvington and Scarsdale boys have seen that come to fruition over the years, especially this season.
When you’re a sophomore on a line with then-seniors Jack Brosgol and Ben Schwartz, you have a lot of responsibility. Even moreso when you’re their fellow captain.
John Eforo was a senior when this year’s Scarsdale swim and dive team seniors were freshmen. Once a teammate, he’s now their coach.
Scarsdale gymnastics went from a three-meet 150-plus point streak to a string of injuries and a sub-150 two-meet streak. Still, the Raiders are holding their heads high as they compete their hardest each time.
Some bus rides are quieter than others. Coming home from Rockland County on Dec. 19 following a 93-92 loss to Clarkstown was one of the quietest for the Scarsdale swim and dive team.
Three meets over the two-week vacation offered Scarsdale’s track and field competitors of all skill levels a chance to compete. At each of the three meets, however, the one constant was D.J. Matusz.
Twice within a three-day span, Soren Benaissa had the fate of the Scarsdale wrestling team in his hands. In order for the Raiders to win, the junior had to avoid being pinned. Both times, in a dual match against East Ramapo and at the Nanuet Tournament against Putnam Valley/Haldane, Benaissa…
Walking off the court last Saturday, the Scarsdale girls basketball players knew they would have to wait until 2020 to pick up the first win of the season.
Seven games into the season, senior Chris Saenger and junior Ryan Seibold, a pair of varsity rookies, made their first starts of the season on Dec. 21. What made the moment even more spectacular for both players was that Scarsdale was facing off with Mount St. Michael in a Slam Dunk Challeng…
Freshman Brian Nicholas has scored 11 goals through seven games this season, leading the Scarsdale ice hockey team. His latest goal, however, was one of the biggest of the season for the Raiders.
The Scarsdale bowling teams continued their match play this week, squaring off against Port Chester and Yonkers. The boys grabbed their first win of the season against Port Chester, following up with a loss against Yonkers. The girls got off to a rough start with a loss against Port Chester,…
The Scarsdale wrestling team’s results at the Garden City Duals this past weekend are certainly not representative of their intense work ethic and grit. The Raiders went 1-3 overall with a solid 49-36 win against Sayville, while the team suffered losses to competitive opponents in Deer Park,…
With his team struggling at 0-4, despite having played competitive basketball — the Raiders have lost by nine, 10, 13 and seven points, respectively this season — Scarsdale girls coach Mike Blanco is going with his silver linings playbook.
While many Section 1 teams are shrinking, the Scarsdale gymnastics team is growing and improving. It’s a stellar achievement for a program that has lost its practice space at the school and seen huge peaks and valleys in interest over the last decade.
Distance runners don’t often get to run true distance relays, so when senior Victoria Capobianco, junior Alexa Doyle and sophomores Natalyn Kapner and Lizzie Hurshman had the opportunity to run the 4x1,500-meter relay at the Jim Mitchell Invitational at the Armory, the foursome seized the op…
Jacob Smith saw the basketball court sparingly during Scarsdale’s 22 games last winter as a sophomore. As frustrating as it was to sit and watch — and know his friends were seeing plenty of action on junior varsity — Smith understood he was there as part of the bigger picture.
Forwards have shifts.
Scarsdale wrestling coach Jeremy Szerlip chose a pair of Long Island tournaments for the first two weekends of the year to challenge his team. At the first tournament at North Babylon last Saturday, the Raiders were indeed challenged and four wrestlers walked away with third- or fourth-place…
Three meets in the first week of the season will test any swim and dive team. With a blowout loss to open, a narrow win in the middle and a comfortable win in the finale, the Scarsdale boys are getting a sense of where they stand within Conference 1 early in the season.
The Scarsdale girls bowling team got their season rolling with a statement victory on Monday against White Plains, dominating with a win in each of the three games for an overall score of 1,535-1,300, and a 7-0 sweep.
Trickle-down has finally found a vehicle in which to be successful. For the Scarsdale girls basketball team, it all starts with the captains and works its way down.
After spending last winter with program-best scores in the 140s, the Scarsdale gymnastics team finally broke the 150-point barrier at the divisional championship meet with a whopping 153.49, besting the previous high of 149.45. Instead of taking any steps back this winter, it was full speed …
Last Thursday was a new experience — for everyone.
Sumeddha Biswal was wrestling on one mat, Lorenzo Carta on another. On the sidelines, their teammates were cheering them on like it was the Section 1 finals.
The New York State finals couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start for the Sleepy Hollow/Hastings/Edgemont/Irvington girls swim team with a disqualification in the very first event, the 200 medley relay. The rest of the meet, however, couldn’t have gone much better.
David Gilberg won the Section 1 boys golf title as a junior in 2005. Josh Goldenberg took the Federation title in 2014, also as a junior. The next year, as a senior, James Nicholas won the New York State championship.
Sophie Carroll may have played softball all her life, but ever since she joined the modified field hockey team in eighth grade, Carroll has made that her focus. While she was one of Scarsdale’s better players last year as an All-League junior, this fall as a senior she finally made everyone …
Coming off their best performance of the year at the VolleyHall Classic or Tournament of Champions, the Scarsdale girls volleyball team had high hopes for the final match of the regular season against Ursuline, with a chance to share the league title, improve its seed and head into the posts…
Maroon & White celebrated Scarsdale's fall athletes on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
Joy Jiang achieved something that hadn’t been done at Scarsdale since 2000. The junior won two individual Section 1 swimming titles, the first Raider since Bridget O’Connor to do so.
Daniel Asher didn’t want to end his high school cross-country career at the Section 1 Class A championship meet. With his team expected to be in the top five, but likely a longshot to beat North Rockland, the senior pushed himself as hard as he could to qualify for the New York State Championships.
The fall of 2019 was a season of firsts for the fourth-year Scarsdale boys volleyball program. The Raiders beat a team from Rockland County for the first time, had a winning record for the first time, won a postseason game for the first time, played in the Section 1 finals for the first time…
Maddie Seltzer doesn’t have much of a poker face when it comes to diving. When she exits the water you can tell how she felt about the way she entered it.
Some tennis players have a rap for bad attitudes and on-court shenanigans, often unable to find the joy in the sport. The four girls who represented Scarsdale and Edgemont at the New York State doubles tennis championships last weekend are just the opposite. Win or lose, they found a way to …
Last Tuesday, the Scarsdale cross-country team had its league meet at Van Cortlandt Park, where the boys were trying to defend their title and the girls were looking to beat Ursuline.
Potential finalists get knocked out in the first round of the Section 1 soccer playoffs every year. This year was no exception.
Taking 23 players on varsity this year was no accident for girls soccer coaches Mindy Genovese and Kiera Fox. Having graduated 11 players last year and knowing nine more would be on their way out after this season, Scarsdale didn’t want to be left with an inexperienced program going forward.
Last fall the Scarsdale boys cross-country team was dominant, winning six meets, including leagues and counties, but just falling one point short behind Arlington at sectionals. While this year’s team, having graduated five top 10 runners, wasn’t quite the same force, the Raiders won back-to…
In three games against Mamaroneck last fall, the Scarsdale field hockey team was outscored 6-0, falling 3-0 and 1-0 in the regular season and 2-0 in the Section 1 Class A semifinals.
A 6-0 lead and a 6-6 halftime score was everything the Scarsdale football team could have hoped for in the quarterfinals of the Section 1 Class AA tournament at Spring Valley last Friday night.
Over the first three years of the Scarsdale boys volleyball team’s existence, the Raiders won four matches and lost in sectionals each year. This fall was different.
Edgemont swimmers making states is no longer a novelty. It hasn’t been for years. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy or happens over night.
The Scarsdale boys volleyball team was able to turn around what seemed a gloomy week for the team into ending on a positive note. The Raiders lost to Eastchester to begin the stretch in a tough match, had two matches postponed and rebounded from their setback with a strong, united win agains…
It took two years to replace Sydney Vleck, but Megan Lee, Anya Pabby and Joy Jiang now have a fourth leg for their elite relays. Fellow junior Danielle Eforo joined the fold and for the second time in three years, the Scarsdale girls swim and dive team is sending all three relays to states.
Haley Matusz tried field hockey when she was in middle school. For two weeks. She immediately went back to ice hockey because there was too much conditioning.
This past weekend, the Scarsdale cross-country team raced at the Section 1 Coaches Invitational at Bowdoin Park. Bowdoin is a very important course because it is where the state qualifier and Federation meets take place later this season, and this was Scarsdale’s last chance to race there in…
The Scarsdale football team could think of no better way to make the Section 1 Class AA tournament than to beat rival Mamaroneck in the final week of the regular season.
Coming off back-to-back overtime losses, the back-to-back 7-0 wins that followed for the Scarsdale girls soccer team offered a boost heading into postseason.
