The Winning Moments | Season 2 Ep. 3

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SPEAKER_00 0:27

So let's let's let's talk about some uh some X, not X factors, but X formerly known as Twitter. You saw that clip that Kevin sent with uh from Zach Blair and Coach uh Coach Z Blair 10 of the 12U baseball game?

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Z U 12 baseball classic like one of those guys. He flipped the bat. I think he flipped the bat. Whatever you want to call it. It's ridiculous. 12U, and he's flipping the bat like he just, you know, won the world baseball classic and won the World Series.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

No. The answer's no. This is a trigger warning for Coach Ward.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

I share this to you guys knowing he wasn't gonna like it. And I watch it and I think to myself, so I have a son who's nine years old, soon to be nine years old, and he loves watching this stuff. He watches a lot of YouTube, and this is what's all over, right? And kids, so kid, he didn't, the kid didn't decide. He he what he learned this. My son's first football practice, he scored a touchdown in uh flag football, and he started doing the Justin Jefferson dance, and then he had to run two laps on his first. Of course he's good, and he could not understand what I do wrong. What did I do wrong? Right. So to me, yes, it's ugly, it's a terrorist, you can't be doing that. But unfortunately, and baseball people watching this understand this is what baseball has become a little bit. It's become a lot of this like posturing and a lot of this. And I'm not like I I knew you were gonna, you were gonna if you were coaching like the other coach who watched his player at Division III baseball, watching him sit stand in the box and watch a home run fly over the fence.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Like he's Babe Ruth. Wait, hold on though, hold on. Going back to the the the 12 year night. Or he's Aaron Judge. I actually I thought I thought you sent it to sent it to us, coaching gonna be like, hey man, this kid's a dual sport athlete. You see that dunk he made? He made it don't care!

SPEAKER_01 2:18

So that's the thing. So I don't care. He did that. So the I had no, I had all right, I had no problem. I understand it. This is what it is. Until I saw the basketball at the end, I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. All right, so this is this environment has been created. He the kid didn't do this on his own. No, there's an environment here. That's the problem. The environment is the problem. The fact that they even have a basket that someone's holding up, an adult's holding up to for the kid to dunk on, that's the problem.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

But here's the deal. I think I think baseball is the problem, right? Baseball has gotten so old and stodgy that you need that. And the think think of think of like the minor league team, right? Think think of banana. Right? Those guys down uh yeah, the Savannah bananas. Savannah bananas, right? Those guys down south, like the whole game is entertainment. Right? Most of these kids we talk about are never gonna play baseball. It's an entertainment.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Is where there's gotta be, is it baseball or is it Savannah bananas? It's like Harley Goldrop.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

This is not the Savannah Bananas at 12U. You're right. This is not the Savannah bananas at 12 U.S.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

though. It might, it might as well might as well be a Savannah bananas.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

I mean, I think, listen, I love the Savannah bananas. I think it's fantastic for baseball. I think it brings a creative and entertaining environment to baseball.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

It's brought a whole new audience to baseball, yes. Which is great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

And God bless, but not a 12U bat flip.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Or the dunk, I love it. But then I thought of Coach when you sent the second one where we were.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

It was definitely something that I would have said almost word for word. Yes. He hit a bomb. That hit off the It was gone. It was a bomb.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

Yeah, yeah, okay. It looked like it was in the minor league ball. I have less of a problem with that. I have less of a problem with the kid doing standing in the box because, like, obviously, we don't know what led up to it. Um, the coach, though, yelling the way he did, like, all right, so John and I had the privilege this weekend for our viewers of uh being in AAU basketball tournament and seeing the old ball coach down there. Oh boy. And he there was a there was a sequence in the game. I was watching one of the games, not to divert too much away from this baseball. But you turn to your bench, your kids on the floor were doing something, and you turn to your bench and you just scream for them to sit up. And you know what I did? I went like this. Yes. I was like, whoa, he's serious. So there is a style of coaching that where that works. I think that was the game you guys came back and you were. We were down nine nine with a little team called the Rens. Yeah, 245 left. Yeah, won in overtime. And that was the game where, you know, like listen, I I I understand it. To me, that the baseball coach screaming at the kid in the box is a little bit of a I don't know, I don't love it. I don't love when the coach have a private conversation with the kid.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

In that moment, yeah, at that level, collegiate baseball.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Let him get let him hit the bomb. Yeah, let him get around the bases, yeah, and then you have a private conversation in the dugout.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

And then let him get a a fastball to the back next time he's up. Because that's probably gonna happen. That's probably what's gonna happen, right? So that's a baseball level. Baseball polices itself in that sense. So I thought the coach yelling was a little bit like a little bit of a look at me type uh thing.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

Agreed.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

You know, maybe he's got a long-standing relationship with the other coach and he wants to show him, like, hey, I'm not putting up with my convention. We don't know the dynamic. We don't know the dynamic of it, but it was just two great videos this week I thought to start our show off with because I said we need to get coach fired up. Fired up. You got me fired.

SPEAKER_03 5:46

12 you thing sent me over the edge. All right.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Yeah, I mean, listen, considering that you asked me for that guy's phone number, so you can recruit him for the Chris Ward basketball uh YouTube. It was great. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Welcome to the Winnie Moment Show. We are back for our spring season. We have a lot of great things to talk about. And before we get to the kids, let's talk about what's happening in section one. Uh Kevin Devaney Jr. here. Yeah, exactly, right? Trish around. Kevin Devaney Jr., the hardest working man in Section One. Uh soon to be New York State, I think. We're just gonna vote him for that case. Yes, uh, there is no challenge for that. Um, you did a lot of reporting this week across every social media channel you have and every brand that you uh you were tied to uh regarding the Section One news. Why don't you uh tell our viewers in layman's terms what's going on?

SPEAKER_01 6:36

All right. So you saw the tweets, you saw the Instagram posts, whatever. Um, Section One released the minutes of a meeting that happened two weeks ago. So this is not new. I mean, I I had heard about this, but the formal statement made by Section One is that they're proposing an amendment, which will be voted on by the athletic directors, it needs to be voted on again by the Athletic Council. The amendment to the Section One Constitution, which will state that non-public schools will no longer be eligible for the postseason against public school teams within New York State Public. So what that means is Albertus Magnus in Section One, Albertus Magnus, KO Academy, Ursulin, and Lafell School, the four non-public schools, schools without boundaries, is what they call it officially in section one, will not be eligible to play within their classification in any sport in Section One tournament play, which means they will not be eligible because to go to this New York State tournament, you have to win your section championship. They're not in the tournament, they're not gonna be able to play in New York State championships as well. So this will not take effect until at least 2027-28. Um Section one will eligible. If it passes, if it passes, yes, of course. Um and we'll get into that. It will they will be afforded an opportunity to compete in what Section One would create on their own, not within New York State Public, a non-public uh tournament, which means in girls' sports, it would be four teams. In um, let's say it's softball, Lafel softball, Kale softball, Albertus, and Albertus, Magnus, and Ursulin will be competing in a four-team bracket for a softball championship. Girls basketball, same deal. Now, obviously, as we as you hear about this in girls' basketball, you're gonna think to yourself, that would be ugly if they played each other in girls' basketball. Yes, it would. But it is a step that they're trying to make, and obviously they know that the long-term goal would be to have a tiered just like they have in classifications in class triple A and A and A, um, a tiered one where they wouldn't face each other. Um Lafelle's girls' basketball team wouldn't face Alberta's band as girls' basketball team. Right. There's only four teams.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Only four teams.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Only four teams. There's only four teams in class C in a lot of sports, too. So it's not like it's that foreign few teams. Um and that that those obviously is enrollment based. So that was the news of the week that this is being proposed. Um my reporting is that it's gonna get passed. It's going to get voted on, so I'm gonna say it gets passed. It's going to get voted affirmative. Um, it needs two-thirds majority vote within Sexual and Athletic Directors when they vote next week on the 22nd. Then it goes to Athletic Council and needs to be voted and passed in. Um if it gets voted by the athletic directors, uh, athletic council and executive committee will 100% approve it because those are their constituents, the ADs. Um so that's where that stands. And the fun will begin once the vote is passed. Because I say the fun, but I mean not fun. I mean the litigation, controversy, the lawyers, the accusation. And it started obviously now with his news breaking um this past week. So Todd Santa Barbara and his team were impatient, not satisfied with the steps New York State Public High School, Robert Zayas, the executive director, the steps they've taken to try and remedy remedy this situation that they've come forth with. Um other sections around the state, for whatever reason, are choosing to ignore this as any sort of reason for concern. A lot of the people that I know who are uh arguing against this or or or basically trying to shout this down are traditionally uh traditional athletic administrators who've been around for more than 30 years. Right. Because they've known no other way than Albertus Magnus, Christian Brothers Academy of Syracuse, Christian Brothers Academy of Albany, Rochester Aquinas, teens that you see in the state playoffs, Notre Dame, Utica. Notre Dame Utica, like all these schools have been in Section One or been in their section in New York State public for many, many years, and they don't know any other way. And I'm not saying that they're wrong. They may have their other reasons why, um, but they don't want this change to happen. So Section One said we're gonna put matters into our own hands.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

So Section One is the only section right now that is proposed this change of their constitution. Correct.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

There is a there is uh the right uh there is another section. Um Buffalo doesn't have any non-public schools. They have the Monsignor Martin Conference, which is where you would hear teams like St. Joseph uh Collegiate from Buffalo, um um Zaverian of Nichols, Nichols, yeah. So all those schools uh they're in their own Monsignor Martin, so they they don't compete in state play. Um so I would assume that they would, because they have this provision already set and it's been set a long time ago, that they would not be they don't love facing Rochester Aquinas in the state regionals or CBA in the state championship like uh Buffalo team did. McQuay Jesuit.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Well, listen, we talked about this a lot on previous shows. So essentially, this wouldn't be that big of a deal if New York State had a non-public school tournament and championships and a public school tournament and championships. What makes this such a huge deal is that if we take these four teams and they can't play in championship tournament play, then they have no chance to be a state champion, period of time.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Albertus Magnus's run of state championships will end by the casting of this, right? So um they've won three state titles in a row. And you know, the what New York State public is trying to propose now is saying we're gonna we we can't create a non-public, we can't force these teams into this because they'll sue. And that's kind of what they stand behind, is like there's a lawsuit potential here.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

But why? They'll sue because they have nowhere to win a state championship? If they do, then what are they suing for? What do you think?

SPEAKER_01 11:57

So they're they're gonna say that you're creating inequities for us. Like you're you we know we are we are members, they are by the letter of the law of what of their constitution of the state, they are members just like Arlington and North Rockland are members.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Of the New York public high school athletics, but they already have inequities. Inequities that they have is that they can give scholarships. Oh, so you're talking about competitive inequities, but they're saying yeah, so yeah, but they're talking we're talking we're talking about membership. I'm not sure. But if but if membership says, hey, you could have a championship, membership says you could have a state championship title, right? So if Albertus Magnus has a chance to be state champs again, they just play different teams, yeah, then the inequities start to stop.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Yeah, exactly. So yeah, that the competitive inequities stop.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

So even the inequities to the to the to the section itself. Like if Albertus Magnus won their section, they they won section one public non-public. Then they went on to win the state non-public, and all the non-public schools in the state had their own tournament, yeah, then where's the inequity?

SPEAKER_01 12:52

That's what it should be. That's what I want.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

That is that personally, that's I've said this. Uh we've said this, I've said this on air ad nauseum. I'm gonna say it again. All they have to do in New York State, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, is look across the water in New Jersey.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

So there And if they do it that way, yeah, it would take care of everything.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

So I agree. Um, that seems like the easy solution. There's a little, there's obviously differences from state to state. Pennsylvania's going through the same thing. There's there's a lot of fight about the PIAA, which is the um association of public schools. Yeah. And so there's all these sorts of things. Now, every school is different, every state's different because schools are just different across in different states. You know, you have regional schools, you have county schools, you have all like saying that, oh, we gotta do what they do is a little too simplistic because New York State's system of education is just it's different. And then there's also, you know, there's a lot of anecdotes that keep coming up now. They're like, well, do you know that in this school, in this, you can go to any school you choose? And and I I just say, like, if we got started getting bought down by that, we can't get buttons.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Is that how Jersey does, though? In New Jersey, if I live in a town, can I go to a different town public school with operating?

SPEAKER_03 14:08

Well, here's what here's what happened. I'll give you a great example. In some cases, in some cases, in some cases, yeah, yeah. So Indian New York City, Indian Hills. Indian Hills and Ramapo.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

Used to be done on a on a line. They had a town, the line, and Kevin knows this.

SPEAKER_04 14:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

And then what happened was they give they gave the kids a choice out of Wyckoff, Franklin Lakes, and wherever else it was, Oakland, your choice to go to either Indian Hills or Woodlands. Yeah. That has but it is what that is.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

So Pecanico Hills in Westchester, if you live in Pleaseville, you got Pudsville, Briarcliffe. Or Irvington. Or Sleepy Hall. And for it. Um now, meanwhile, John Lynn lives in Porchester. Um, what do you live out? About a stone store away from Blindbrook schools?

SPEAKER_00 14:50

There's 12 houses. There's 12 houses on my block. Yeah. Three of them are go to Blindbrook, yeah. And nine of us have Porchester. I mean, listen, the it's it's diversity that should not happen.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

So this is this is my point, is that you can't make a blanket rule because everything is different from state to state. You can't. So, but what you're saying is in terms of the construct of alignment of schools, the difference though, from New Jersey is that their burg their Stepanak, Iona Prep, Burgen Catholic, Don Bosco, basically, uh St. Anthony's New York, they're they're part of the same association as the public schools are, right? And then NJSAA. So when you look at New York State, New York State Catholic League is not a part of New York State Public, but some of the Catholic schools are. If you polled, by the way, if you polled uh schools at Stepanak, Iona, and people said, like, hey, what do you think about Albertus Magnus and Ursulin playing in New York State public? They'd be like, Yeah, we don't understand. Why do they do that? Like, no, but no one can like wrap their brain around it. So that's where New York State is unique in that there's this some some schools, there's a Catholic League and there's a Catholic State champion, but then there's Catholic teams that win the public state. Like, why why are there why is this happening? So to me, there needs like a broader realignment of all this.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

Agreed. Agreed. It seems, I mean, to me, it seems very simple.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

I like broader realignment. Uh, you play in your the people in your geographic area. Yeah. When postseason comes, you play non-public A, non-public B, non-public C, depending on enrollment.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

I don't know if you got to C, but yes. But at least A and B.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

And then we go from there.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

And it and it would take care of everything. I agree. And then you know what you can have? You can have a state championship weekend in Albany or Bingham's end, wherever you want to have it, where you have, you know, Mount Vernon plays Shenendahoa in the non in the public championship in basketball. And then right after, Stepanak plays Christian Brothers the Cat. So like that to me would be the perfect world. It'd be perfect. There's just so many factors to get to that point. And by the way, we didn't talk about New York City. John brought up New York City. And I said, do me a favor, don't bring up New York City in the show. PSAL, totally different monster. It's millions of people. Like, let's don't even try and solve that on Ruby's Cube because uh yeah, but again, so this is something that you know we've I've talked about a lot. Um, uh I feel very well versed in. I talked to a lot of people in the schools. Unfortunately, I feel like KO Academy, they can't go to the Catholic League. It's an old Japanese school, um Lafell school. Now, Lafell, obviously, there's the there's a Shiva League, they can play uh in that they chose. I if you I was gonna say your prediction 2027. I asked Mike Darty on the Game Day One podcast, what is the prediction? What do you think? He he said he thinks that Ursula and Albertus are gonna feel unwelcomed and just on their own walk away. I don't agree. I think there will be there'll be injunctions and lawsuits and that stuff is gonna happen, and I think it's going to delay it. So it won't have to be.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

It's gonna go to litigation.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

Yeah, 100%. KO and Lafelle, I can see them saying really not our school's not built around athletics. It's built around, you know, Japanese people if you don't know what KO Academy is, all Japanese school, all their students come from Japan. Absolutely. This is our opportunity to live in America, live in New York. Um, it's not about sports. And Lafelle School, same deal. It's uh Jewish education, all Jewish school. Um, so it's just it's just totally just different focus and goals, and they don't grow enrollment. So people think that like you'll grow enrollment by in Catholic schools by improving the image through athletics, which is a proven case it happens. It's how you raise a profile. Let's not pretend like it's not. Correct. KO and Lafelle don't do that. They don't, they don't, they don't lead with that, at least. You know, they may tell you.

SPEAKER_03 18:24

But Lafelle, Lafelle, we there's some young guys there there right now that can play at that in their program. Their basketball program. And their parents are very concerned about their in their basketball program. They've got some players coming, and their parents are very concerned about this situation. I had a couple of them reach out to me.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

While I understand that, Lafelle's never won a championship. They never won a league championship, never won a section, never won anything. In basketball. They've won in baseball. Um, so I don't think that anyone, I don't think that parents and athletes go to Lafelle for athletics. No, they no, they don't. Right. So it's just a different thing. I think they got a little caught in the crosshairs.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

I do think before we move on to this, I do think the one issue that I uh just thought of as our conversation happens is that if you play against players all all year, right, think of the rivalries that are that are in the classes. Right. So you play against these people all year long. So Albertus Magnus plays against you know all the teams in section one, but then championship time comes, they don't get this the chance to beat the person that beat them. Or, you know, think of think of uh uh Rye, right? You know, Rye versus Suffron. I mean that game at the county center was so anticipated because Suffron came into Rye's gym, right? They blasted them, they blasted them, and then Rye comes to the county center like we're gonna shoot 80% from three-point range in the first half. You lose that all season long. We're playing this rivalry, so you're gonna lose that. That's the probably the only thing I don't I see there being a thing with, but the rest of it is as long as you have a state championship, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

If they can find a if they can so this is instead of what section one wanted initially was for New York State to make a across the board championship, and they didn't want to do it, they're pushing back against doing it. They've you know they've kind of aligned um with certain sections to say, no, we're not gonna go this route, we're gonna keep doing it. And uh section one said, Okay, we're gonna do it ourselves. Maybe we'll do it from the ground up, and we'll be the only section that has this. Um, almost like you know, creating new sports and just here's what we have, we're gonna and kind of force New York State to do it. And honestly, I think New York State, this part of me thinks that New York State is okay with it doing being this way because they want section one to fight the legal battle first. And so they don't want to fight a legal battle.

SPEAKER_03 20:28

You think you really that's your analysis? 100%. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

Because there's a lot of schools in this area. All right, listen, it's a it's one of the richer that in Long Island, the richer towns and and communities in this area. Absolutely. Uh those school districts and the country. In the country, so those school districts will be more inclined to fight the fight. They have motivated superintendents at at prominent schools that have the ability to kind of take this on, whereas New York State is not going to just walk outside and start this fight. Let somebody else start to fight. Scarz jump in when it's time.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Scarzell got the award, I think last year, like the the number one wealthiest town in the in the country. So there's money here. Yeah. So yes, totally agree. Now, I do think that if uh everyone watching and uh Section One, Todd Santa Barbara on our team, if we if they sense the winning moments production that we did at the championship game, okay, like our TF team halftime type show, they would 100% New York State would just bow down and say, hey, listen, bring the kids to the county center, watch what we do. Yeah, okay, you cannot beat the commentary and the uh halftime and post-game production. So on that note, let's get that, let's get back to the kids, Kevin. We now have the uh I love this segment, by the way. Uh coach is gonna love it as well. The uh KDJ baseball and softball top five teams.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

So let's so this is something we're you know, I'm looking at each class. We did it last week, we kind of whipped around each class. Um, you know, rankings in lacrosse don't, you know, we we talked about it last week. It's like there's very defined favorites in each class, and like after that, so like doing rankings in It's kind of like a it's sort of not necessary in a lot of ways. Like Yorktown's the best team, American's best team in the class. But in baseball, you have so much parody and there's there's it's gonna this is gonna change every week. So when look at my top fives for baseball, we start in class triple A. I I know American's three and three overall, two and one the section. They uh they just lost to catch up. I I uh John Jay's Fish go, I do think they're still my number one team. I think when you know when the playoffs are gonna start and they get into the postseason, they're the team that's probably best equipped to go on and try and win a section championship. So we'll plunk it being the number one reason why. 542 on base percentage. He's been off to an awesome start. Uh they actually had a few days off this uh you know after after after the holidays. So they've uh been a little quiet this week, but they will get going and they'll go into the second half of the season. Only six games in. Uh to me, the team to beat. Catch him though, man, it's amazing what they've done. So Pat Mealy, five. That's amazing. I mean so 500 wins from from from uh from coach. Uh he does it with an eight five win over Clarkstown South on uh Thursday night. He's 500 wins in baseball and 117 losses. So winning percentage of 8-10. Wow. He wins. Do you understand? Baseball is just it is like one bounce here the other way. A bad a bad adding for a pitcher. To have a 800 winning per 8'10 winning percentage is un unfathomable.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

Now come on, you're you're in the hall of you're in the hall of fame. If if you fail 70, well, 65% of the time you're at bat, 350 batting average, you're in the hall of fame. So yeah, baseball is a sport of failures.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

And and down and up here, you only have 20 regular season games, isn't it? Am I right?

SPEAKER_01 23:40

Yeah, and he's played obviously some more. He's won 10 section championships, 15 league titles, um, two state titles, 2005 and 2023. Went to the state final four last year as well. Um, over 150 players in college have played in this time. That's astounding. It is really remarkable what he's done. And he actually he won June 1st, 2021. He won 400, so he's won 100 games in uh five years. That means you're averaging 20 words a year, and your and your regular season schedule is 20 games. And and he's they're not like catch him's not like some on uh two things. Section one has completely changed their scheduling for baseball. There's no easy games in their schedule. They they are they're playing, and their their crossover games were always like obviously their league. We'll talk about crossover games were against Clarkstown North, Clarkstown South, Fox Lane. These are these are programs. They're not feasting on some like bottom teams at any point. Established high school programs in our channel. I bet you they don't they have not played a team in the last five years that was like a non-playoff team. Like they've everyone they face has been has been good. Um, and they've dominated.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Listen, Pat Pat's like Pat's like Joe Torrey as soon as he got uh as soon as he got uh Derek Jeter.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Yeah, yeah, no, yeah. He's uh he's had a couple Derek Jeters in Section One terms over the years. But also Arlington, John Jay's Fish go, we're talking about the two of the other teams in their league. They play them two or three times a season. Um so to have this many wins is it's uh it's incredible. So uh congrats to Coach Pat Mealy and uh this team he's got their uh they're they're they're starting off nice and strong here. Uh Arlington's my number three team uh in their so they're seven and one. So they got beat up. They're one loss. They give up, I think they give up 15 runs to uh to memorick. But in the seven wins, they've allowed 11 total runs. So to me, pitching wins, man. And defense, yeah, no extra bats in an inning is huge. So they're my number three team. Uh, number four team, this is where things are kind of like after those top three teams, it's um a little up in the air. John Jay Fishgill could have been a four or five team. I'm gonna put Scarzilla there five and one. Matthews Oland, uh, he's been awesome. Six stolen bases, nine runs scored. He's batting over 400 for the year. And then uh next team's Clarkstown South. Um, you know, Clarkstown South's got some nice pieces moving back up to triple A. Uh, they're gonna be a threat with uh the group that they have. So they're my number five team. John Jay's Fishkill's just said, also right in the mix there as well. Class A. We put, man, talk about the winning moments hex. We've talked about Mayapack last week. They lost their next two games. Um two games in a row, uh, four runs uhwards Arlington and Ketchum. So, but again, they face Arlington and Ketchum. So let's not get too crazy about uh them losing two games. Horace Greeley, eight and one. They're my number uh number two team. Zach Bond, we talked about him last week, is 3-0, 1.79 ERA. Um Greeley has a chance. They have a chance to uh be the one who disrupts this uh Mayapak quiz. Mayapak obviously make it to the championship last year, losing the Fox Lane, who goes to the state finals. Um they were right there. And Greeley has a is a team that I think that is very dangerous. And uh, you know, it's been a couple years coming for Greeley. Um my number three team, though, Clarkstown North, uh, we'll talk about Quinn Miller later on in our in our next segment. But um, well, Clarkstown North has has in these two pitchers with JD Santulli and Quinn Miller, is it's pretty special. Uh the co-aces of this team, if the playoffs ever worked out in a way where there was no rainouts, they were able to stay in the winner's bracket, they're dangerous. You know, they've got a lot of the the arm power that they have on this team, but those two guys and and and more.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

When you when you have two guys that are co-aces, as you uh in your terminology, Kevin. Yeah, and I call it, I would use the same terminology, and you can and you have enough to support them in the bullpen or to spot up in relief, you have a real chance in postseason.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Yep. Uh Rye, team that has a good chance in the postseason moving up. Uh class AA, they're my number 14, they're six and two. They beat Neuro and then they've knocked off Nyak twice this week. Uh we'll we got to see not Rye get challenged um, you know, over the course of the season, which they will with their schedule. Uh and then Lakeland's my number five team. They're sitting at four and four. And uh they're top of the order ranks with any team in this class. I uh, you know, I really do think that they uh they could be a threat. It's gonna be a matter of pitching with them. Pitching. They had enough pitching. Uh class A, Tap and Z, talk about pitching. Uh they've been great. We talked about uh them last week. Anthony Marsico, though, he's batten 500 on the year, 12 RBIs. Another big week for him. Uh eight runs scored, only 28 bats. But uh he's been on base. He's been leading this offense. The pitching is always gonna be there for TZ. They're 8-0. 9-1 Pleasantville lost to Valhalla, which is a little bit of a surprise, but they came back and beat Pearl River in Summers this week. So uh nice couple bounce back wins for Pleasantville. I think that they uh, you know, I don't know who, as we said, number two team is. I watched Pearl River yesterday live, um beat Byram Hills. Their one through nine lineup is is pretty solid. Um they beat Byram Hills on the road. Uh they were down four four-nothing in that game, and came back and beat them eight seven, eight, six. Um, so Pearl River is uh my number three team. By them Hills, um, they're right there as well. A couple big, big bath in the middle of lineup um, and Chase Rodriguez, who we'll talk about. And uh Blaze as a ascaneo. He had two home runs this week, seven RBI for Byram Hills. By the Hills is lurking. They know the team that just needs do they have enough pitching to compete with uh Tennessee down the road? Yeah, it's all about Arm. Uh John Jay definitely does. Uh they are seven and four. They started all in two, they've bounced back, they've been good. That that number four, five spots probably got to rotate with a bunch of teams. Nanny Wet's gonna be in there as well, Croton. So uh they're in the mix. Uh Class B, we'll go to Putt Valley. We talked about them as the number one team, uh, defending champions, Nick De Benedetto, batting 556 on the season with eight walks. So the guy's been on base.

SPEAKER_03 29:01

His OPS must be out. So and for and for our um our people that don't know what an OPS is, it's on base percentage plus slugging.

SPEAKER_01 29:11

Hits and walk, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

And if you and if you go, if you're anywhere from 750 or above an OPS, he's over 1-1.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

He's yeah, he's over uh 1.1. Crazy. Yeah, I looked at it. It's funny you said the OPS, and I was like, I gotta look at it.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Plunk has probably got to be at 1-1-1-2.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Yeah, they're up, they're all up there. So uh it's been pretty incredible. Bloomberg's number two, five and two. Um, I don't know. You know, we'll see what they have as they get more challenge. The team that's interesting is Pauling. So, you know, Pauling has not competed for section championships in in sports and boys sports in in some time. Um, Affie Middlebrook has them on the cusp in basketball. Next year they're gonna be a dangerous team, but he's also very good in baseball.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

I hear he's an outstanding baseball player, great stick, great uh fundamental mechanics in the box, has a great approach.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Went three for three the other day. They beat Brewster 5'4. So to beat Brewster, is that's pretty impressive. Uh obviously, you know, a bit of a cross-town ride. Uh Dos Ferry, another basketball player who's uh done well pitching. Playing first base. Yeah, Anthony Ficarada. So uh Fick, I talked to some players who said he he's definitely throwing in the mid 80s. I'd be surprised if he's able to throw that hard after not pitching for a whole entire year. Uh he didn't play as a junior. Um, but I wouldn't put anything past him. Uh, his just his size alone, his strength. Um, but um, you know, he's I think he's gonna work up his innings over time. And uh, you know, he's been he's been pretty good with the bat as well. I know he's probably hitting like sixth or seventh in the lineup, but he's uh he's working his way up, so this is gonna be pretty dangerous. I watched Ryanack beat get beat up pretty good this week. Uh they're my number five team. Clasby's not, you know, it's got a little bit more depth than it's had, uh, but I'll put Ryanack as my uh number five team for this week for uh for baseball.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

I uh um it always is listen, I think that, and this is my analysis, baseball in our area in the last five years has gotten exponentially better.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

It has.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

Exponentially better. So why coach? Why? I think because the kids are playing more. I think the instruction outside of high school, I think they're making a commitment to it. I think they're getting better coaching both in high school programs and with their travel teams playing all over the country. I know a lot of these kids go down south and play in big events, the one outside in Atlanta, Georgia. There's another one in Fertile Beach, South Carolina, you know, um, at the coast of Carolina. So they're starting to see that that pitching, that quality of pitching. Yeah. They're starting to see it with all those things, and it's really elevated the game here in our area. And my one of the kids who I love watching him swing, Owen Paino, yeah, I think kind of started that.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of kids who are doing more travel. Um, it's, you know, I'll say this, it's become more of a specialized sport. It has. There's a lot of single sport athletes who just play baseball. Yes. Um, because if you want to get good, uh you can anything, you have to commit to a year-round, and baseball to commitment is, you know, it's extensive. Um, but you know, the other thing is you look at like a place like VLAU, which is in uh in Bedford, and it's changed baseball completely. Completely. Yeah, you look at all these kids that have gone through that. It's an indoor facility. They do a lot with um pitching mechanics.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

But it's all about the youth program. Like people don't recognize uh that the youth program in the town in the community is the most important. It has to start the ground up and baseball's youth program. I mean, listen, I played little league when I was a kid, and it was huge. It was the thing. It wasn't really even AAU had like one or two teams in the Bronx. We had Squires, Gauchos, really, maybe Riverside in that scenario for basketball, but for Little League, you had hundreds of teams.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

John Lim, VLOU is a who's who of who's getting drafted and who's playing at a high level.

SPEAKER_01 32:49

They had a draft party last year. It was like nine kids. Just worked out there. I mean, a lot of the couple can adding in different places.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

But it is uh those that's the outside instruction.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

I actually think less kids are playing baseball at a young age, but more of them are playing at a high level. It's sort of what it is. I agree with that strong take. Let's put it on the play. Yeah, we'll uh we'll run through the girls. Um Alexis Teague from uh White Plains, she has them at number one. They're five and oh in the season. She had her 500th career strikeout, only a junior, and uh so pretty incredible. She has 55 strikeouts in 29 innings pitched, so out of like 80, whatever, 29 times three. Um, you know, so majority of her outs are coming by strikeout. And the sport has changed so much in softball, too, because of the um the mound depth, you know. So it became harder to strike out. Girls strike out like 1820 a game. Now it's like anyone that strikes out, you know, double digits, it's like a huge accomplishment. She does it every game. So um White Plains right now. 500 strikeouts. Yeah, 500 strikeouts is uh remarkable. So there's gonna be a couple girls, we're gonna come through some of these on our list of our teams that have some pitchers that start young, man. I so you talk about baseball, softball is having the same effect. Um, and girls that learn how to pitch at a younger age and learn the mechanics and um you know all the different styles of pitches, you know, you could be good as an eighth grader and just make a varsity team and be the pitcher for five years. So you you see that happen um a lot. And uh Teague is one of those, one of those pitchers who's just continue to uh outside instruction.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Yeah, you get that pitching coach that really knows what to do, and they teach them that rise, they teach them that drop. Yeah, and and it's there, it's difficult, and they throw strikes. It's like being a face-off person in lacrosse. Yeah, you're specialized in pitching, you might get a little extra money at the end of at the end of your high school career.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

I'll tell you the drop, the drop in softball, though. I've I've watched these these girls play. The drop in softball would get me every time. Like a curveball. I was good with a curveball playing baseball, but that drop in softball is done. I would look I would look silly every every back.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

Right. North Rockland's a number two team. Uh, you know, White Plains repeating is gonna be hard. North Rockland is is just solid across the board once again. They just lost to Ketchum. Ketchum was, you know, we'll talk about. I still have North Rock in number two because I just know no matter what happens in the regular season, North Rockland is a different team at the end. Um they just not because of your Rockland bias? Well, yes, obviously that's a big part of this. My Rockland bias. Um Arlington's number three at uh four and two. Ketchum, although three and two, um, they started 0-2. Uh, they are my number four team, as I said. They just beat North Rockland. Um, but I do think that um, you know, they're a team that's still kind of growing. Um, they beat John Jay, Clarkson South, North Rockland this past week. Clarkson South, double A champions last year, moved to triple A, are my number five team. They're three and four. They're just facing the toughest competitions, uh, competition. But um I think they're gonna be okay and they're gonna be very dangerous uh as the year goes on. Class AA, Eastchester, my alma mater, four and oh. I didn't play softball at Eastchester. Um Sabrina Cosgrove is um people say, Oh, you love East Chester. And I said, Well, I didn't I didn't play for the softball team. You know, so play baseball. Um, Sabrina Cosgrove, talk about a team with young talent. So I have a little insider on this. Um, my niece um is uh play with all these girls that are now kind of reaching uh the varsity. Uh Scarlett Cade is her name. She's only in seventh grade. Um but I was able to, my wife and and my kids loved going to watch the softball in Eshester softball, watch their cousin play. And I was like, man, when these girls get to high school, they're gonna be good. I didn't think it was gonna be like now. It's it's sort of we're seeing um Eliana Baez, uh Sofia de Gutierrez. There's there's like a lot of the older sisters of these girls. They are this this is like a seventh, eighth grade, ninth grade push that's being pushed here at Yeshester.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

Kevin, was this the group that did really well in the in the softball, like like in Little League softball and went deep like to the regional?

SPEAKER_01 36:33

I mean, they played at Long Island and state championships. Now, all these girls, so like the softball is it's kind of a two-year thing, so they were kind of together for one year, then then the next year, like girls would move up, but the other girls would still be so like I've been watching this this this turnstile at Easchester, and and it's like, well, they won last year, and they I you know, um, but Cosgrove's excellent pitching. They have almost too much pitching. If they ever needed like rotation in softball, like Eastchester uh would be well positioned for that. Um, so we've seen that and we've seen the bats. Ileana Baez, Angelina Racine, Sofia de Grutiera is just, you know, just just raking the ball. Yep. So they are, to me right now, class double A. It's it's it's a it's probably the hardest class to win um because it's just so much depth in section one. Um and obviously you see why. Carmel, as our number two team, just beat Yorktown three and two, uh, three, two. Um uh Madison Hurley has 11 RBIs in the year for Carmel. So she's been she's been great. Carmel's been a team that's you know, kind of up and down over the years, but like right now, they are right in the mix there. Yorktown, they're now four and two. They lost to Carmel twice. Harrison, defending champions, they're four-and two. They have to replace some big baths in their lineup, but uh, they're right there. And then Ursulin's always gonna be right there. Ursulin to me, you know, they're only one and one. They've still started the season, but um, they are they're gonna be they're gonna be a threat. As the year goes on, they're gonna be very, very good. Um, and uh, you know, with them competing with East Chester, I think any one of these five teams plus other teams, I think could uh could make a run to win uh section championship. Tapuz Z, not even on this list. Um no, sorry, Tapaziz is in class A. So we go class A. Pearl River is the number one team. Um Angie Franzis has been awesome. She's just uh she's been so good for them, hitting the ball. Um, five and oh in the year for them. She just had four uh a home run, four RBI, four for five. She had a home run early in the week. Uh that was a win over Nyak. Han Hud also undefeated at 7-0. Somers is five and oh. There's teams. Now, these teams don't all overlap, play each other with the double A and the AAA teams do. So you might have uh, you know, we could have a sectional championship where it's like a 22-1 versus 23-0 team. Um, it could be Han Hug, it could be Somers. Umers' programs continue to get better over the last few seasons. Uh Bernis Magnus still lurking um, you know, for now, obviously in section one.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

They've been so and by the way, they've been so good for the last four or five years. Yeah, Bernis Magnus softball's been up. Yeah, they've been awesome. Fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

They're right there. And then TZ, five and one, um, is in the mix there too as well. So I think when you look at class AA and A, you know, you're gonna go into that postseason with five or six teams with legitimate chances to win.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

And for Somer's softball to be in this position right now, regarding how the how good the girls lacrosse program is. Yeah, and flag. I mean, for them to do what they're doing now is is that the case is.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Well, that's something that's like not really talked about, is like there's now three major sports in a season on the girls' side. You know, I mean, obviously you have it um in the in the fall as well with volleyball, soccer, and and field hockey, but it's feel like he's not like a major sport in some communities, it is. But now you're talking about three major sports in across the board in all schools. Um, and you know, we'll we'll talk about Tapuz G flag in a little bit. But um, yeah, they that's uh TZ softball is right there as well. Absolutely. Um on the B in Class B, we'll run through this quick. Dobbs Ferry, uh number one team. Ryan Eck, number two, Hastings, defending champions. They've they kind of had a little bit of a stumble middle of the year, but they've rebounded well. They're now four and three. Um Putt Valley, three and one, and then Yonkers Montessori's uh four and two. They're my number five team in class B. So that's my top fives in uh boys in baseball and softball.

SPEAKER_03 40:05

Ryan Eck Girls Softball, traditional powerhouse. Always just uh, you know, they uh hard to bet against them in postseason. They've always done very well in postseason. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

Uh listen, coach, we don't uh we don't we don't gamble here in high school sports. Don't bet against anybody. Don't bet against anybody.

SPEAKER_03 40:21

I forgot. My bad.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Uh yeah, no, not yet, at least. Okay, we'll get to the NIL topics and how you can pay these kids later on. Absolutely but um yeah, listen, we'll put this on Instagram, make sure you guys can vote, see if you guys agree with Kevin's order of the uh top five per class and see what kind of controversy we could have. I'm sure uh these teams will not agree with you because uh at least four of them, at least four of them won't agree with you on every every single second. Correct. But yeah. Uh so listen, we talked about last week. We did a heavy report on the cross. Uh give us an update on what's what's happened this week on the cross.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Well, you know, Yorktown, we we celebrated Yorktown's win over Darianne, which was uh was a great win to go and beat a team from Connecticut. And then, you know, here comes Somers. Somers lost to Rye, lower class, and Somers goes and beats uh Yorktown. Now, the the cool thing is like, and I didn't love this. Like, I guess there's reasons for this stuff, but like they Yorktown and Somers are separated by one road. You drive from one road to the you know, big rivalry, and they, as uh they they said, they hit the pause button on the rivalry for a few years. Things got a little uh, you know, chippy. A little chippy. Uh, you know, I don't I think it was more of a community and crowd thing than it was uh on the field thing, um, because these guys all play with each other uh sure you know in clubs in clubs. So um they got to play the other night and it was a great game. Uh Somers comes back, beats them, and uh, you know, Hunter Mezzatesta, the goalie from Yorktown is the best there is in section one, going to Virginia, and Somers found a way. Um, you know, and and Somers, you know, talking to Coach Jordan Hirsch, you know, who won a state championship in his first uh season. What a great guy, too. Great guy, great coach, really um cares about his kids on and off the field. Yeah, and so uh Tristan Iglesias, five goals in the win. Cameron Violante coming back from injury, three goals. Remember Cam Violante didn't play against Rye early in the season, so like that could change the dynamic when they, you know, when they meet inevitably again um in class C. But that was a marquee win for Somers. And, you know, I read the headline on Lohead, and it was about surprise. So they surprised them. And I'm like, is it a surprise? Oh, Somers is just that good. And you know, when you see the names of the players and you and you see uh Brett Kennedy, you know, all the 13 ground balls in the game in a game where it's just very physical, very aggressive. It just goes to show you like, you know, he's he's as good in the middle of the field with the poll as there is in section one, maybe the best. And um, you know, for you know, they go out and it's a lot of these football guys, guys are winning mentality, and they go out and they win. So to me, it kind of that win should put Rye a little bit on alert. That, you know, maybe they didn't, you know, get that far ahead of Somers right now as they thought. So Rye's gonna get better, Somers is gonna keep getting better. But um, that to me was the was kind of the biggest headline of the week. Um, and then you know, the other thing too is that Rye beats John Jay 9-7 uh uh last night. John Jay's right in the mix there in class C as well. Um, so Pelham's in the mix in a very deep class C. Um so that was that was great. Memarinick, you know, talking about other teams in the section. Mamarick's got uh um I think they have Matt Massapiqua coming up. Um they have another matchup. Oh, they they face uh Darien this week. So it's gonna be uh interesting to see.

SPEAKER_03 43:17

Be a good barometers to where they are right now.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

Totally, totally. Um, and you know, we talked about Iona Prep last week about beating Don Bosco. Don Bosco has beaten Shamanad. So, you know, that's goes to show you where Iona Prep is as a program.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

So they're number 12, I think. They were ranked right ranked number 12. Uh I forget whose list that was. Ranked number 12. In the country. In the country.

SPEAKER_01 43:36

Yeah, so and deservedly so. And we'll talk about their guys in uh a few minutes, about uh some of the names of this team. And and the to me, the most remarkable thing about Iona Prep is that Crew Davis was going to be cement his legendary athlete athlete status in Westchester this spring by leading Iona Prep to another championship, but he's not there because he left early, he left high school early to go play football. Football at UNC. For Coach Bill Belichick. For Coach Bill Belichick. So he doesn't get to have a spring season. He's going to play lacrosse and football in college, but you know, it's a thing that athletes do.

SPEAKER_03 44:09

Kevin, could you tell our viewers why so our viewers may not understand why.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

I under you so could you explain? So this is very common for especially for football players who come from the Northeast. Um, you know, football player last year from uh Iona Prep who went to Clemson, I'm blanking on his name. Big alignment. Um, he went out to Clemson early. So this is there's a precedent here. And what they do is they want to get athletes in. So athletes like an Iona Prep who have taken college-level courses already and academically are in good standing to graduate early. Basically, what they did, they graduate a few months early. There's a major advantage for athletes to go to the Division I's programs and get on the weight training and the academics uh cycle six months early. Um Iona high school, Iona prep school actually ends like in the middle of early May. They graduate very early. Um so the seniors end class early. So really all he missed was the final two months of a month and a half of school, two months of school. Um and obviously he's missing his senior season of lacrosse. But they feel like there's such an advantage to get them academically and early. It lightens the workload on them on their freshman year.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

Um, it lightens it kind of it sort of spaces out uh four years of academics over four and a half years. They go through summer training as well, so it really kind of alleviates the burden of that as well.

SPEAKER_03 45:23

John, they're on campus from now until probably Christmas. They won't come home. Rowan Byrne. Well, Rowan Home.

SPEAKER_01 45:30

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:31

So Rowan Byrne was alignment from one A football, one A basketball.

SPEAKER_01 45:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:35

You get on campus, they keep you there.

SPEAKER_01 45:37

You just can't do it in basketball because the season's still going in January when you go. So you do it. Football players happens a lot. And you very you have to you don't really hear it.

SPEAKER_03 45:45

And they're down there for spring football to learn termin the system, the terminology, the plays, the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 45:51

And honestly, the fact that that crew, so there's people like crew Davis is an exceptional lacrosse player, and they thought he was gonna go to lacrosse UNC just to play lacrosse. And when the football thing happened when Belichick gets hired, Belichick has, you know, if you know Bill Belichick, he's he's always said he loved lacrosse players playing football. He's he feels like it's a there's a there's a there's a field awareness, there's a sense. Um, you know, he's gonna be I think he's gonna be a running back. I think I can see him being maybe more of a receiver. Um is um might be a slot guy like Edelman or a Wesley Well. Exactly. So you're you're you're I said you're a step ahead of me. So yeah, so there's you know, he but he's gonna give himself accumulate, and honestly, they're gonna use his time to find out where he is, where he is as a player. Correct. Um, but uh as I said, he he it doesn't change anything. He still to me is one of the greatest two sport athletes I've ever been around. Um and Dampicart, I think, are just two guys that I've seen that has said, like, man, I don't know if at a high at this high a level, Jeff McDermott, Nurse Shell, like high, high level uh ability in two sports, and uh Crew Davis is on that line. He's right up there.

SPEAKER_00 46:55

Yeah, I mean you got some right kids that are up there too. And uh would you go down, would you miss your your Caesar season senior season to uh go play football for Bill Belichick? These days I don't know. There's not really a choice.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

I I got news for you, John Lynn. We're talking 2009. This is not a multi this is not a multiple choice thing, uh John Lynn.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

No, no, yeah, we say you're coming here. Right.

SPEAKER_00 47:17

I guess I'm just I'm I'm I'm I'm talking to the audience, right? Would you miss your senior season and a sport that you dominate as well to then go play football for Bill Bell Jackson?

SPEAKER_01 47:27

But the other thing, too, is like what what more is he what more can be done for him? Like there's really nothing more he had to accomplish in the high school level.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

He would put on a show in the state playoff in the state championship. Football for the club.

SPEAKER_01 47:37

In football was ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 47:38

Well, speaking about football, now we're gonna move to one of the fastest growing sports in America and a sport that I love as a girl dad, flag football.

SPEAKER_01 47:44

Yeah, flag football, it's uh it was a little bit of a quiet week as well. Um, and and some of our best performances we talked about. Um, but the the marquee game was uh last Friday when Tappen Z defending champions in Class B took on Scarsdale, defending champions and state champions in class A, and uh knocked them off. And uh that was impressive. To see Tappan Z go on the road and do what they did, beat him 32 to 12. Um, you realize that, yeah, you know, like obviously different class sites, but like what Tappen Z flag football has become at that school, it's pretty impressive impressive. Uh Daryl Flynn, the head coach, um, assistant basketball coach, and he's got some basketball players on his flag football team. And uh so they didn't get a break from Coach Flynn uh at all. No, which uh, you know, Coach Flynn's a man. He's a very good thing. They can run faster, yeah. They know how to run now. They um they kind of rolled right into the season. Actually, they played, I think they played on Thursday after playing um the previous week, um, you know, in in basketball in the state championship. So uh incredible to to be able to make that that move over and uh and to be clearly now there was a question like is it Scarsdale is Tabasy? Tapasy is clearly the number one team uh in in section one. Um so No Rochelle, I think, is gonna now the question is like Neurochell and Scarsdale. They obviously faced it was a 7-0 game, but Noah Shell has a chance to to kind of make a run at a Class A championship. But uh overall, the other thing too is the other team that's come along is 8-0 Westlake Briarcliff on the girls' side. So Westlake and Briarcliffe merged. Yeah, they merged. Um not off uh I think Westlake could have maybe had uh their own team. Briarcliff, I think doesn't have the numbers, so they merged in one team. Uh and they are dominating. So Westlake is uh, you know, it's a football town. I mean, football town. It really is. They're a football town. So, you know, I people say this about Somers, and they say about why is Somers good. And I and I say, you know why Somers is good? Because the moms love football. The moms love football. Westlake, moms love football. They love football. So moms love football, so it's it's become a a it's become an event. Football's become an event in those towns. And Westlake, now we're seeing it on the girls' side. Moms and and there's a family support of football. Now you're seeing on the on the tackle side and then on the flag football side for the girls. I'm giving moms credit.

SPEAKER_00 49:57

We gotta add some t shirts. We got we got rye is rye. Now we got uh moms love football. Somers, moms love football. All right, moms love football with new t shirts coming out.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

But let me tell you, John, John, a lot of moms don't love football. There's a lot of communities where moms I live in one.

SPEAKER_03 50:11

In these two communities, Westlake is so interesting.

SPEAKER_01 50:21

But when it came time to play taco. We don't name names here. When it came time to play tackle sign up for tackle football, my son Dylan, eight years old, it was like he wanted to be the first online. He was like, I want to play tackle football. My wife Donna, who you both know very well. There was never, I never like asked her, like, is it okay for our son to play football? But a friend of mine from town said to me, He goes, Hey, is Dylan playing football? I said, Yeah. She goes, Donna's okay with that? And I was like, bro, I don't want to run anything by Dylan. No, no. I was like, that's that's a lot of people. That's inaccurate. Yeah, that's not inaccurate statement. I said, Why do you did your and he's like, No, my wife would never let our son play football. And I and listen, that's not the first time I've heard that, and they're not the only ones. Trust me, there's a lot of of families whose you know don't let but you need the mother's backing uh for football. And in Somers, there's no ask. And in Westlake, you know, it's it's a it's a football table.

SPEAKER_03 51:20

My my wife is a proud graduate of Westlake High School, and they've loved football over there for a long time.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

Mom, mom, moms who love football. This is this is a great t-shirt coming your way. Yeah. So before we go to this next segment, which we've been working hard on trying to put this together, um let's talk about how you guys can submit some of these highlights. Yeah, we need highlights in the show.

SPEAKER_01 51:40

We need I I realize the show's success is going to hinge on video submissions and photos.

SPEAKER_00 51:45

Yes. So we made it easy for those who are not watching and just listening, and those who are watching as well. You can text the word highlights to the phone number 88500. It'll deliver you a link and you'll be able to submit highlights and box scores. Do not worry, you're not signing up for any text subscriptions. We're not going to text you back. So what would we text me? So text the phone number is 88500. Okay. And the word you put into there is highlights. Okay. You'll get back a link for you to click and you can immediately submit highlights, both video, uh descriptions, everything. So then our producing team can get it. And it's already working. Kevin is our first submission there today for highlights.

SPEAKER_01 52:25

So submit your video for a chance to be featured on the Winning Woman Show. So you click that link, and it's going to take you to a place where you can just take stuff off your phone, um, stuff that you off social media, so you can add this in. It is that simple. I just did it on air.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

Yes, it is that simple. And we need it, guys. We want to we want to make this next segment as a staple segment across all seasons. And to do that, we need your help. We need the highlights, we need the submissions, uh otherwise it's gonna be difficult to make sure that uh kids don't get missed.

SPEAKER_01 52:56

And John, so the best part about this is that you put your name, your email, that's required. Um, you describe them in a moment. You don't have to, you don't have to do that, but you can say, This is my son's uh no-hitter that he that he pitched. Um just do that. There's a drop uh button you do, choose something off your phone or off your computer. Um then there's a or there's a link you could put it to a Google Drive, or you can put an Instagram handle. Say, hey, my son posted this, my daughter posted this on our Instagram. Here's the link to that, here's the Instagram handle, and it goes in and we take it and we make it part of our show. This way, there's no excuses.

SPEAKER_00 53:27

There's no excuses to not deliver these highlights. We made it as easy as possible as we could. Uh, we'll continue to work on that. But yes, please submit the highlights because genius to the person who thought of that. That was uh Claudio behind the scenes. You can't see him, you can't see it all together. Right?

SPEAKER_01 53:41

You've got thousands next year. He's like, wait, where do I put this? What do I put this? That damn text message. It sounds like something even I could do. Let's not get that crazy.

SPEAKER_02 53:51

Jeez almighty. Coach Gard, I love you, Coach Ward.

SPEAKER_00 53:54

I love you. It's like, are you smarter than a fifth grader show? Right? Remember that show that was on the air? Can you build technology? Can you build technology for coaching?

SPEAKER_01 54:00

I'm accusing the guy of like not having the intelligence. Meanwhile, I watched him like yell at the bench and coach the game at the same time this weekend. He's like, he had like a brain that was like going in two different directions. I know, I know. He has the arm, so he doesn't know your capacity. I know what your capacities are.

SPEAKER_00 54:12

Well, the re Now the reason is because we are going to uh launch our first ever, our first ever top ten players of the week. Okay, this is listed in alphabetical order because we want the votes from you guys to choose who are the top 10.

SPEAKER_01 54:26

So this is fine. Where did you now you're now it's my son said? So here's what's funny. Oh, freestyle. So I had this I had this all in chicken scratch notes on my computer that was typing all different fonts, all different stuff. So I said, I'm gonna use AI to organize this list. And I said, please put it into alphabetical order. And the first player was Abigail Rogers. There's no alphabetical her first name. Then the next player is Katie Atwood. And so we went from the first letter initial as the A.

SPEAKER_03 54:54

And then so what my point is Oh, it was first, it was first name, and you didn't say by last name, that's why. So AI AI could do so much except alphabetize people's names. Yeah, but you have to say by last name. No, so this is a great thing.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

This is a great thing, okay, guys? This is the right ones. Never trust AI. And clearly read things that Kevin Devaney Jr. sends you before you talk about it in the show.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

Kevin Devaney Jr. KDJ, AI.

SPEAKER_00 55:17

KDJ. All the letters. All five letters. Don't trust all five letters. Let's well, on that note, this is not in the top 10 order, okay? We want you guys to put this in the top order. No order whatsoever. We're gonna start with you, coach. Uh, our first nominee here for the top 10 is Abigail Rogers.

SPEAKER_03 55:31

Abigail Rogers, New Rochelle High School flag football. Week total, five TD passes versus Horace Greeley, three touchdown passes in a 20 to nothing win. And then against Brewster, two touchdown passes into a 19-nothing win. Obviously, defense was outstanding. Shout out to New Rochelle's flag football defense, efficient, consistent, and leading a team, putting up points in bunches.

SPEAKER_01 55:57

Yes, I watched the play a little bit. Uh, she's excellent. Um, she controls the play. They I felt like at the game that I watched, it was the Brewster game. I felt like No Rochelle had the ball the entire game. And that's the credits to the quarterback.

SPEAKER_03 56:07

Um, if she can be if she's a game manager and can control the possession of uh and time, yeah, then New Rochelle's gonna be very tough.

SPEAKER_01 56:16

Maybe the best defense in section one. Yeah. Clock proven.

SPEAKER_00 56:19

Clock management. And actually, guys, we're gonna do clock management right now, so we're gonna speed this up a little bit here. Uh so Kevin, Katie Atwood.

SPEAKER_01 56:25

Katie Atwood. Tuck a ho, only a only a junior. Um, so this week she was seven for eight at the plate, two doubles, triple, eight RBIs. She also threw two no-hitters. She had 30 strikeouts in two games. Um, against Barcliff, she had 16 strikeouts and a no-hitter, 14 strikeouts against YMA, another no-hitter. Um, those are the first two no-hitters she's ever thrown. She has 559 career strikeouts in 300 innings, which is uh pretty incredible. 79 career hits, plays a great center field uh when she's in the field as well. And uh Coach John Diarco said that Taco Ho may have never had a better softball player than Katie I would only remain low hood player of the year as a sophomore, front runner again as a junior. It's gonna be tough to win again, but um, you know, then she's led into championships.

SPEAKER_03 57:06

Video game numbers. Yeah. Video game numbers. Video game numbers. Austin Town. Gotta watch your pitch. Maddie's and so my our next top ten performer is Matty Collado from the always perennial powerhouse Albertus Magnus softball team. Maddie went for the week five home runs, ten RBIs and two games versus Rye, two home runs, seven RBIs. Sounds like Mike Trout at Yankee Stadium this week. Yeah, yeah, good week. And then versus Clark, I'm sorry, versus Clarkstown North, two home runs, three RBIs. Massive power week, obviously. Big bat with multiple home run games. And uh Albertus Magnus is right back in the hunt.

SPEAKER_00 57:45

Listen, we could talk about your Metz anytime you want, coach. Uh, next player coming up here at Kevin, Reid Dutois from Bram Hills. Go Mets.

SPEAKER_01 57:51

Uh Reed Dutois from Byram Hills. Uh Boys Across program, Byron Hills has you know had some ups and downs. Nick Savassano comes in as a head coach. He inherits Reed Dutois, who is in a prolific goal scorer. I mean, I so I was there, I was on Byram Hills campus this week down the street watching the baseball. And I saw him score two goals literally as I walked from my car down to the baseball catch. He's awesome. So he had 13 goals, four assists, um, six and two against Fajala, and then against Kenny Catholic. That was the game I saw. He had seven goals, two assists. He had a 10-goal game and a half earlier this season, 10 goals and one half. Then he says that's true. Um, he is probably gonna lead section one in scoring this year. Him and Charlo Terracin are gonna be right in the mix with each other, but uh Reed has been phenomenal. And Coach uh Savasano trying to build the program. You gotta build it around somewhere, and Reed's the guy.

SPEAKER_00 58:34

He's he's phenomenal. Good to have Reed Duit in the program.

SPEAKER_01 58:38

Oh, he broke the program scoring record along the way, too.

SPEAKER_00 58:41

All right, moving, moving, moving on here, Coach. We're going back to the book. What a shock. What a shock.

SPEAKER_03 58:46

This is a girl that we may not know. Eve Girardi, I think we know her pretty well. Yes. Tapp and Z flag football's quarterback, 24 for 35, 251 yards, five TDs, and a 32 to 12 road victory against Scarsdale, plus an interception return for a T D versus Lakeland, four TD passes, 133 yards and 58 yards rushing. Elite quarterback playing impact on both sides of the ball. What a shock. I give you numbers.

SPEAKER_01 59:14

I give you those numbers were the Mayapack game. I said Scarsdown. I'm sorry, Mayapack. Mayapack. She had three touchdowns and interception. And I mean she's just dominant. She's she's such a good athlete. She's incredible. And you know, you don't, the numbers don't do it justice. Because if you watch some of the throws she makes, I mean we're talking about across the body throws downfield, 30 yards in the air, going across to her left, throwing across the field. It's just not normal. You don't, you just don't you see a lot of like I've watched a lot of uh girls' like football in the in the short time that it's been a section one sport. Um, nobody throws the ball like Keith Jordy.

SPEAKER_00 59:47

It's funny you said the the the the numbers don't do it justice. Four TDs, 133 yards passing, and 58 rushing yards, and that doesn't do it justice. Domination is better.

SPEAKER_01 59:58

We're gonna show some of the videos.

SPEAKER_00 59:59

Yeah, pretty incredible what you put that together. All right, Kevin, let's move to uh baseball here. Our next player is Quinn Miller.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:04

A lot on Quinn Miller's shoulder this season because of Clarkson North's aspirations of winning a championship. They need their aces to do it. He was really good. So he's he lost. Uh he pitched at Boulder Stadium against Clarkson South his first game. He gets beat. Uh he's bounced back really well. 11 innings pitch, 24 strikeouts, two hits, no earn runs allowed, no runs allowed. Um he had five shot innings, 10 K's against Harrison, and then against Fox Lane, defending section champions, six innings pitch, 14 strikeouts. Watch the game on Sports Engine, and he was utterly brilliant. I mean, talk about a guy who just he works fast, he gets ahead and counts, and man, Fox Lane just had nothing. They had no, no, you know, just complete domination.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:39

24 K's and 11 innings. Yeah. Domination. Yeah. Coach, let's uh let's talk a little bit more lacrosse here. And uh we talked about Iona Prep being the number 12 team, and the player coming to this is Tim Plunkett.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:50

Tim Plunkett, Iona Prep Boys Lacrosse this week. Eight goals, seven assists, 15 total points, uh three goals and three assists against a regional powerhouse up the line in Glaston, Glastonbury, Connecticut. Two goals, three assists versus Stepanak. And then St. Joe's Trumbull, Connecticut, had three goals and one assist. He's produced against three outstanding lacrosse programs in the tri-state area. Him putting up those numbers against those teams with those defenses, very impressive.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:22

Listen, we talk a lot about uh powerhouses and we use Connecticut and Long Island. You know what, guys, for watching the show, let's make sure that these guys say the powerhouses of Section One, all right, they have to fear us coming in from Connecticut and Long Island. Because that's what we're doing here.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:36

Yeah, Tim Plunkett's gonna play UNC. And uh and you asked me a great question before the show, coach. Uh, is he related to Will Plunkett? All Plunkett's related. That's what I'm saying. That's amazing. That's what someone, a plunkett member of family, because there's a plunkett's Stephen Act. They're all the people. Are they good at sports? If there's not good sports, then they say they don't take ownership.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:52

Is Mr. Plunkett Will's dad and and his and his dad? They gotta be everybody in the Plunkett family, what are they, six three, six four, six five? They all yeah, they're all huge.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:01

Yeah, yeah. And there's another plunkett coming up through Bronxville. So, yeah, this it's uh that's amazing. It's great. Some rich genetic spots.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:07

By the way, I want to say that I uh I I'm taking the winning of the bet of how many questions that uh you would have guessed. Chase Rodgers Chase Rod Chase Rodriguez, Byron Hills baseball. Give it to us, guys.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:16

So he he stands in the batter's box and he just looks different. Talk about a guy who's just got a big presence, like six foot three, uh over 220 pounds. He is a monster in the box. And I actually said, why is it I some of the base basketball players from Byron Hills were at the baseball game watching, and I said, Why do you play basketball? And they're like, uh, he's not a basketball player. But um Chase Hills, he's pretty good in basic. You know what's funny? He's gonna he's gonna hear this and not like that. Um, because he's gonna say, I could have played basketball. But um he went three for four, two runs scored uh in the loss against Pearl River. He had a home run, which I saw live against Ryanek, a couple walks, three runs scored, and then against Arsley, also had a home run um in that game, three RBIs. So he is getting going. 481 batting average, 15 runs scored uh to start the season off. And he has been, you know, I I know him and his family pretty well from town. And um highest braces this year, and he put a lot of work in. I every time I yeah, he's uh a ready first baseman, and he is uh he's going to Fairfield. I don't know if he's gonna play yet, but he I think he has a chance to walk on.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

I would, I would if I'm at in Fairfield, I've got to at least give him a look in the fall. He'd walk in the room and you'd be like, we gotta get this kid on our 6'3, 220, and he hits the ball the way he's hitting. I gotta take a look at him.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:22

I mean, listen, uh Chase, uh, you're slacking 41. I mean, come on, buddy. Let's get above 500 here. Let's go. Uh, coach, we're gonna move to uh back to lacrosse for you.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:30

And uh a young lady that I've known for a long time in her family. She used to do player development with us, came to camp. Um Kayla Rogero, Haldane Girls LaCrosse. Um, I believe she's still committed to Iona. 17 goals, three assists this week at Tucko. She had nine goals and an assist. Hastings, eight goals and two assists. She's had back-to-back eight plus goal games, absolute pure scoring dominance. She is a young lady that's very difficult to deal with because she's so strong. She's got a very, she's got a very uh uh quick burst, she's strong, she's quick, she's aggressive, she looks to score. Some some kids just have that knack for scoring the ball on the cross. Yeah, she's that kid.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:20

She's probably one of the more underrated athletes in in the section. Because it affects how Dane did it's gonna get much attention. And she has committed, still committed to Iona.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

So we gotta find out, we gotta find out how many uh how many of all these amazing athletes we spoke about actually uh went through the Chris Ward basketball program because you say it a lot, coach. And uh it's a credit to you and and the program that you could just go.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:38

Kale is Kale and her family are fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:40

And wrapping up here, our top ten performers, not uh to save the best for last, we're gonna go back to the girls' lacrosse. La Crosse has been dominant. Girls lacrosse here is dominating. And uh, Kevin, give us the player here. Maya Torg Aguilar.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:54

Torgalar from Right Country Day. Uh Maya is uh at Right Country Day, so we haven't we don't, you know, we don't really talk about right country all that much, but we should. Six goals, nine assists, 21 draw controls, and they have two wins this week. Beat Greenwich Country Day um in that game, and then knocked off St. Luke's, and just uh a couple all-around performances from a Right Country Day team that's very much competitive, could be competing with all the best teams in Section One. I mean, you know, you're gonna take your Nyaks and Rise, they're gonna be higher, but like Right Country Day is right there with them. Um, the program is is very solid. Have a chance to win the uh the Fairchester League.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:27

So they have two postseasons, I believe. They have the Fairchester League, and then they have the New York State Private School Athletic Association, which is a completely different governing body that comes back to what we talked about earlier today in our podcast.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:42

And we did not set that up, okay, but that was a great segue, coach, to uh make sure that we talk about private versus public schools. One more time. Yes. One more time. One more time to end the show. Uh that's our show. We really appreciate you guys watching and coming out and sharing everything on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, now known as X, as well as We do need those highlights. You can submit them on the website, thewinniemoments.com. You can text, as you saw on the show today, highlights to the phone number 88500. Please like and subscribe. Share this with people. Our mission here is to help raise money for these kids through our fundraising platform while also making sure they get as much exposure as possible across all their sports.