Too tall. Too fast. Too many good shooters. That could be the lament coming from the Highland girls basketball team that was crunched by Westchester County’s elite Irvington team 56-34 in a State opening round game on Tuesday, March 7 at Beacon High School.
New Paltz finished the season at 13-7, and with their first Section 9 championship in a decade.
The Lady Sawyers are on a roll.
It took three overtimes to do it, but the New Paltz boys won their first Section 9 title in a decade with Monday night’s uber-thrilling 78-77 win over Saugerties. The Highland girls defended their Section 9 crown with a 52-31 win over Marlboro in Sunday evening’s Class B tournament final.
Fans of the Saugerties boys’ basketball team packed the high school’s gym February 20 to watch eighth-grade sensation Dior Johnson become the youngest player in state history to reach the 1000 point mark, and reach it in the shortest amount of time in Saugerties basketball history.
Eight Kingston High footballers and their coach have crafted their most intimate moments into monologues fit for the stage. On Friday, Feb. 9, they presented the results to an audience of 160 people at the Kingston High School auditorium.
BC’s New Paltz Climbing Gym, the former Inner Wall, will continue to offer the afterschool activities and birthday parties for youth that the gym has always hosted, but the new owner plans to focus more on the local climbing community.
The Saugerties Youth Hockey Mustangs won three of four games, and won the Bronze Medal Game against the Tri-County Eagles with a score of 3-1. In March, the Mustangs will compete in the Tech Valley Hockey League playoffs. The girls’ hockey team, The Fillies, also earned a bronze medal.
Father and son runners Austin and Griffin Rynne bore the torch to the overlook at the Carmine Liberta Bridge in New Paltz on Tuesday morning, where games officials stopped for pictures with local dignitaries and trails advocates.
The torch will make brief stops in New Paltz, Kingston, Saugerties and on the Walkway.