Rye Country Day Girls’ Ice Hockey Wildcats Hold Their Own Against Morristown-Beard
By Melanie Cane After two snow days and two intense practices, the Wildcats hosted powerhouse league opponent Morristown-Beard on January 10, and came out flying. Sophomore Charlotte Price got her team on the board first. Both teams were crowding Morristown’s goalie in front of the net. The puck rebounded off the goalie […]
Max Samberg Named Lions Club Athlete for December
By Mitch Silver “He’s the very model of what a student-athlete should be. Max is the team’s leader on and off the court, organizing activities that bring the team closer together. On the court, there’s never an eye roll when a teammate does something wrong, never a word of criticism — he just […]
Rye High Girls’ Basketball Garnets Fall to Huskies in See-Saw Game
By Melanie Cane The Garnets were hoping for their ninth straight win when they hosted rival Harrison on January 11. Unfortunately, due to a slow first quarter and foul trouble Rye lost to the Huskies 52-48 in an exciting, competitive, back and forth game. The Huskies opened the game with a 3-point shot from the […]
Rye Country Day Boys’ Basketball Wildcat Comeback Falls Short in Loss to Masters
By Mitch Silver How’s this for a strange game? Rye Country Day jumped out to an 8-0 lead in the first 75 seconds of their home game against Masters School last Friday. Masters then scored the next 16, a run that only ended when Wildcat Shane Regan made a tough left-handed shot in […]
Rye High Boys’ Basketball Garnets Take Mamaroneck Tourney, Before Suffering First Loss to Byram Hills
By Mitch Silver If ever the term “winning ugly” applied to a basketball team, it fit the Rye Garnets last Saturday evening as they won the Mamaroneck Tigers’ 21st Annual Boys’ Basketball Tournament by beating a game Alexander Hamilton five in the final 43-33. It was the Garnets’ second straight Tigers’ Tourney […]
Rye Neck Bowling Panthers’ Boys and Girls Out-Roll Valhalla, Seek League Lead
By Mitch Silver The Rye Neck Boys’ and Girls’ bowling teams traveled to their home lanes at Bowlerland in the Eastchester section of the Bronx for an important meeting with the keglers from Valhalla High. The Panther girls are the defending league champs and currently sitting in second place under first-year Coach John […]
Rye High Girls’ Squash Garnets Handily Defeat Holy Child
By Melanie Cane The Rye High Girls’ Squash Team 1 played Holy Child at Westchester Country Club on January 12 and came out on top 6-1. With All-American Caroline Baldwin away at a national tournament in Baltimore, the rest of the Garnets lineup moved up. Sophie Barber, who normally plays No. 2, came up […]
Rotary Toasts Two Good Sports
Rye Rotary Club presented the Sportsmanship Award to two Rye High School Football standouts, Brett Egan and Peter Chabot, at the club luncheon January 5 at Whitby Castle. The winners are nominated by the Harrison Huskies Football team and awarded to Rye High athletes exemplifying the ideals of sportsmanship during the annual Rye-Harrison game. Caption […]
Passion Has its Rewards
By Annette McLoughlin Shakespeare knew it, and captured it perfectly. Teenagers have been passion-fueled and head-strong from time immemorial. And yet, for all the challenges those passions can present, there is a profound beauty in this age that too often goes uncelebrated. But celebrate we must the accomplishments of the contributors to the 2017 edition […]
A Good Move for the School District
The Rye City School District recently moved its central office down the road to 555 Theodore Fremd Avenue, the spacious, blue-mirrored International Corporate Center, from 411 Theodore Fremd. The move was motivated by an opportunity to capitalize on a larger space with a lower per-square-foot cost. Schools Superintendent Dr. Eric Byrne applauds the move, […]