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May Madness Hits Different | Season 2 Ep. 5
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How was your week? Um, I look forward to I'm at the point of life with uh having three kids who are into sports on the weekends where Monday morning, when you get back to work, is when I can finally relax. It's like it's like where things get a lot easier. Um that was just like a normal weekend, and like this weekend, my wife and I look at the schedule. Ten games between the three kids, four, my daughter has one has four AAU games, my son has two AA games. Uh, my other daughter has two um CYO basketball games, and then uh they have uh flag football games mixed in. Yeah, but listen, I playable. The worst the schedule works out in a way where nothing overlaps. That's amazing. No, it's the worst. Why? Wait, you know, sometimes parents will know this. You sometimes they like divide and conquer. Oh, we have to divide and conquer. They say it like it's a bad thing. It's not a bad thing. No, you know what divide and conquer does? It opens up other hours of the weekend where you could do stuff. We don't have that because we have it stacked. It's like somebody said, How do we how do we get the Devaney family so they can go to every single one of these things and give them no free time? The question I have is we got it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, the question I have is who decided to put all the kids in basically three different leaks? I mean, was that was that you or Donna? Or was it the kids driving it?
SPEAKER_00I mean, so here's the thing, we we talk about this all the time. It's like um it's it's the environment that we we we live in. Everybody does it. So if you don't do it, you are going to get left behind. Little FOMO social and athletic uh, you know, uh progression. If you don't do it, you know, you're gonna get left behind.
SPEAKER_04Little FOMO.
SPEAKER_00Coach, uh how's now this guy, how many best we games do you coach this weekend?
SPEAKER_02I will coach six, I will coach um 15 for sure. Yep, Chris Paul. Possibly 16, 17, or 18 if we get to the championship. I will have coached 63 games in four weekends. Wow.
SPEAKER_00And uh you feel fatigued in your uh advanced age?
SPEAKER_02Yes, I I would say I would say Monday comes and Monday is a day where um it's a day of rest. It's a day of rest, yes. That is, but then I gotta go to the then I go to the gym 4:30 to 9 30 on Monday.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and then we get to the work week though, and this week has been a little crazy. Yeah, with all the things going on, um it's been a little nuts.
SPEAKER_04But still, but still, I think you're right. Listen, when you get to a certain age and you got all these AAU uh kids running around as as we all have had, and coach coaching, is like I never would have thought in life like, hey, listen, uh what's your rest day? Monday. I can't wait for Monday. No, Monday can't. I gotta love me some Mondays.
SPEAKER_00You know what though the saving grace is like as much as we're in the this, like, this like we gotta get in there, we gotta drive here, we gotta do the carpool, whatever. You know, I we're very fortunate, my wife, Donna. Her her parents like come to everything. And not even. So good. And like, so I get to I get to remind myself that like they're they're they love this. They love the schedule the way. Oh, they do? They get to go to everything and see everything, and and the Aunt Carol gets to go and she gets to bring the treat. And so Uncle Jimmy's there, it's great. Um, but it where's the parents at? Like we're but they're also by the way, they're not we're paying for it, they're not paying. No doubt. No doubt.
SPEAKER_04Yep. Well, shout out to all the parents in the AAU uh schedule along with all the coaches. Now, welcome to the Winnie Moments show. We're back here May 1st. May 1st, gentlemen, it's uh uh May Mayhem that we're gonna call it. And uh, good way to kick off May Mayhem is the mayhem that has been happening across social media with uh this Stepanek Punchman.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, oh yeah. If you haven't heard, um Stepanak competed in the Chipotle Nationals, they were one of the 10 teams in the nation to get invited. And this isn't just like the 10 best high school teams, they include the prep schools in this. So the prep schools are like the IMGs, the Montverti's, the Spire Academy, those schools that like I I'm pretty sure they have a school that they go to. I know they have a gym, it's the platform.
SPEAKER_02Some of those places their schools are debatable, the academics might be debated.
SPEAKER_00Someone say that like if you go on LinkedIn, is somebody gonna say they're a teacher at Spire Academy? Like, I'm not, this isn't about that. But like, all right, so Stepanak, we know Stepanak school. I've been there, kids go to class, the kids aren't on the basketball team in the school. Um so Steppeng was invited to be part of this, and other teams, this is not at the first, but like other teams from the Catholic League, New York State, um, this region have been invited. Um, it's a big deal. It was in Indianapolis, so in the week of the Final Four, it's a huge deal. They went, they lost their first game to Spire Academy, which is coached by Kevin Boyle, former Montverde head coach. He's one of the greatest high school basketball coaches. Ever. Influential, ever live. Um and Steppenwick went, despite the fact that they knew it was not a sanctioned event. Um there's a lot of like he said, he said about whether they were told, well, there's ways around it. So they they circumvented the the sanction, the the non-section, so sanction being the punishment and sanction being the ability to play an event. So the sanctioning, it's not a sanctioned event by New York State Um to play in.
SPEAKER_04It's like a tongue twister in this class event.
SPEAKER_00So they did not go as Stepanak, they went as the either New York or White Plains Crusaders. I'm not sure where they went as. And they basically went as like a club team. Parents basically said, okay, we're going to allow our boys to travel together and go and coach can go. And they didn't wear Stepanak uniforms. They didn't wear the any of the same uniforms they've ever worn.
SPEAKER_02They were on that and they were on national TV, so that was all proven.
SPEAKER_00Yes. So um they were called Step. Chipotle invited Stepanak. They didn't invite the Long Island, the NASA, the white planes. Um, anyway, so there's punishment, but there's also punishment they feel that's being handed down from the Catholic League, that is because of the fact they play during Holy Week. So the punishment, in case you haven't heard, is Coach Pat Masseroni suspended for eight games next season, eight league games. Um the all levels of the program, this is where things get like crazy. Um varsity, JV, freshman, they have playoffs on all levels, and varsity B, they have playoffs. No Stephen basketball team can compete in the postseason in 2027 on any level. Freshman team. So the kids who are not even in the school yet already can't play in the playoffs. Uh which is insane. It's insane. Well, yeah, let's get to that. And then the other this is the worst one where it's the kids, athletes um on any team in the school cannot travel out of state and play a game um in 2026-27. Baseball team can't play in Florida. Golf team can't go to Ireland. Um, that's different. They're gonna go, they're not competing in matches. They can't compete in the in events um outside of the state. Coach, your hands over your mouth.
SPEAKER_01Who knows? I'm gonna say something really bad. Yeah, but I don't want to say anything really bad.
SPEAKER_02I I I Oh, other people said that. I I I yeah, I know they have I it's uh it's just I I want to say this. CHS double A has got this really wrong. They've got this wrong on on every level. Instead of embracing the fact that it gives the CHS double A more exposure, it gives the CHS double A uh more prestige, yeah, they went the other way, like we're living in the in the in the caveman era of high school basketball.
SPEAKER_00It was the caveman dinosaurs, all the stuff. So the problem is, is like they're not against stepping out going, they can step back and go to events all year long that are exposure events and all these things. And they play in the city of Palms and they play in they play in the Bahamas last year, they play in the Jordan classic, they play all this stuff. But it they did not uh there's rules that they have to enforce related to non-sanctioned events. So those events are all sanctioned, the opponents are sanctioned. And so their thing is it's like, hey, we're not we're not saying we don't want you to get exposure, and it's great for everybody, but there's a rule saying you can't do that. So like this is where like the conundrum comes in.
SPEAKER_02So like if you're in a mobile, but how many but how many teams from CHS double A, yeah, okay, throughout the years have gotten have gotten an invitation to the Chipotle Nationals? But I mean, how many?
SPEAKER_00Well, so Long Island Lutheran is not part of the C. They're bound to the same rules, basically. Right. But they've but they've been.
SPEAKER_04But I don't think that's the real question. I think the real question is is now, okay, fine. How they got there, how they got the punishment.
SPEAKER_00But I'm just playing devil's advocate, but yes.
SPEAKER_04Right. This this punishment seems so extreme. Why, why, why do you feel that they they hammered down like such a strong punishment? I mean, it's gonna get fought, obviously, and they're not gonna win the whole punishment to punish all the kids in the school. And to your point, kids who are not even in the school yet are gonna get punished. I would be really But why?
SPEAKER_02Why why is it such a harsh punishment? I know why. Because they've won. They've been dominant, they've won four city championships in a row, unprecedented success, and people are kind of hacked off. Yeah, and now they wouldn't, now they want it, now they wanna know.
SPEAKER_04You could punish the basketball team, but what Kevin's saying is like you're gonna play every sport? The entire school, the whole athletic department doesn't seem like doesn't seem like it's like it's like a parent getting arrested and the whole family gets arrested just because the parent got arrested. That makes no sense.
SPEAKER_00So maybe maybe I'm naive and maybe I'm crazy. I believe in like integrity in people, in authority, and in administration. So I would like to believe, and I to convince myself, and I'm not totally convinced, that the people who are rendering these decisions are have a personal vendetta against stepping out. Because like, you know, like I over the years I've talked about this all the time. It's like Rockland County is a great example, use them. Um they get crazy, people in Rock County get crazy over referees, and because, well, he can't do our that guy graduated from Pearl River in 1987, and you know, and I'm like, well, he's he's wearing the stripes now, he's not wearing the blue, wearing the stripes, and like he you have to assume integrity. Like this guy is understands that I'm here as an unbiased so that's my thing. So people in authority and and and in positions and it's a proven joke. You need you need to kind of like an expectation of integrity.
SPEAKER_02Understood. And I'm not knocking this CHSAA, they do a phenomenal job, they really do across the board on everything. And that's they're the reason why they it's one of the top um uh organizations and high school leagues in the country. Yeah, however, I don't think they got this right.
SPEAKER_00No, and I'm allowed, and I'm allowed this, you know, and they need to know that interpretation, interpretation too. So, like Cardinal Dolan, like the the Cardinal Dolan, almost became the Pope, right? Um, he told he said, like, there's no So I think the the bigger infraction here is two things. The first is they were they asked, they were told no, and they found a way to go anyway. Oh that's that's a problem. So that is a problem. Yeah, they have to be punished for. Um even though they they found a way, meaning that they they the rules and they kind of dribbled around. They set some screenshot. The rules, you know, a little no-look past. So it's not the court of law, it's the court of church, though. The court of church law is a little different. Yeah, a little different there. There's no doubt about it. And um Catholic folks like there is no there is no skirting. There's no skirting. So so we um I go to church every Sunday, I gotta be careful. So um there's there's that law. And so Cardinal Dolan says you can't play during Holy Week, but he said four o'clock on Holy Thursday, and they did not play past four o'clock on Thurley Thursday. They played on Wednesday night. And had they won, they would have played on Thursday night at eight o'clock after four o'clock, and they would have been in violation. They didn't violate. It's like, right. Did you jaywalk? No, I was almost dead. And then I kind of went to the gray walk the gray area. There's a gray area there, so like a lawyer could probably say, Well, but they show me when they played after four o'clock on this time. No, well they could. So that's where that's where I think that's where their loophole is. But the problem is, is like the Catholic League, when and this is never discussed, but when you're part of a league, whether you're part of Section One, the Catholic League, you're part of the ACC and bad, you are volunteering to be a part of that league. And when you volunteer to be a part of a league, you volunteer to be bound to their rules, whether you like them or not. And so I hate a lot of the rules that New York State Public has. That you know, but unless there's a better option out there, you're you're kind of bound to the to the rules, or you're forced to try and make change, which is what step bank's trying to do. They're forced, they're trying to force change.
SPEAKER_04Listen, I'm not listening I'm not mad at be them being punished, right? Okay, you try to loophole. There is no loophole. As a kid who's been in the Catholic uh school system for almost all of my life, there is no loophole. Yeah, okay, when it comes to the church in that case. All right. So let me plead my case of a case. Being punished is one thing. That's fine. I'm okay with them being punished. What I'm not okay with is punishing kids who have not been in the school, yeah, punishing every other kid that had nothing to do with it. Like totally and other sports. That's unfair. That's unfair.
SPEAKER_00That's we're every conversation kind of steers away from that. I'm like, no, no, bring it back. Because this is what I really this is the only thing I would really mostly care about trying to resolve, is that part of it. And then you get into the okay, should he be suspended for eight games? No, we should be like maybe three games, four games, whatever. Um, but it's like one of the post-season ban. People don't like being deceived. Like, we're all parents. Like, we don't want our kids finding a way to, you know, climb out the window or you know, some say they get out of trouble. So that I think this that's kind of some people rub the wrong way. And that's that's made a lot of sides to this.
SPEAKER_04It's also not a bad, I mean, listen, sure, the varsity runs the basketball program, it's a basketball program, but the it's not it's not really a basketball program, right? So the freshman, the JV, the idea that all that hard work you put together, all the blood, sweat, and tears, basically it's like we're gonna teach these kids hey, if one person does something wrong in your household or your friend group or your organization, the whole organization should be punished.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, so it's not fair. It's another sanction. They didn't get a vote. Like this varsity B team didn't get a voice, hey guys, you might jeopardize like they don't that that to me is like an institutional lack of institutional control is what they're being punished for. But like, that's not that's that's not fair. That's it's not. I agree. Let's just let's just take things a little less seriously, and hopefully, hopefully. In some ways, it's like it's too crazy. Hopefully, these are all proposed. This is these are all proposed sanctions, and I think they're not actually No, they've not been officially uh handed down, but I don't I mean, it seems like you know, the fact that nobody from the the CHCA has spoken up about it yet or defended anything yet, no makes you think they're just gonna wait for this to kind of blow the the the the anger to kind of the public to and then be like, oh here, by the way, these are what we're gonna hand you guys, and then they're not gonna face the music on it.
SPEAKER_04So I also think that listen, if they punish Pat for eight games and he still makes the playoffs, the kids should play in the playoffs. I mean Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's a uh They shouldn't be punished.
SPEAKER_04These these kids should not be punished that way. Look, you have no coach for eight games. Yeah, and for eight games, you gotta make you gotta make a living on the court with no coach. And not to say that that the players play the game. No, coach is very important, especially in basketball, though, as you know, coach, like the in-game coaching is so important in basketball. We said it on on the show earlier, like uh Kevin, you said it best where the coach puts together a game plan before the season, and the coaches in the teams that are most successful are the ones that are willing to adjust that game plan in game, in season. And yeah, so Stepanek wins eight games, they go to the playoffs without Pat. I think they should be able to play in the playoffs too.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But I agree. That's that's how it goes.
SPEAKER_00We're not here to negotiate their their uh their their uh their settlement here because that's that's somebody else's somebody else's job. A lot more sophisticated than us.
SPEAKER_04But if you need help, if you need help, we're pretty good at at these debates. You should see. Exactly. Well, listen, on on that note, okay, uh, before we get to the next segment of your top uh top lacrosse picks, I do want to speak to all you kids out there because the parents like myself would have no idea what I'm talking about. Because we're gonna run a contest. May Mayhem is going to be a contest for you kids. We are looking for the best edit. Yes, I said edit. This is only for the kids, they'll know what that means, according to my son. The best edit for your team, you produce the best edit, post it on Instagram, put us as a collaborator, then post it on TikTok, put us as a collaborator, and whoever gets the most views on their edit, regardless of the sport, we will give you $500 at the end of the season. Again, all you gotta do is post that edit, put us as a collaborator, the winning moments and the winning moments show, and whoever gets the most views, we will give you $500. You know what an edit is, Kevin?
SPEAKER_00I know what edit is. Uh you asked the wrong guy. And by the way, Chris, are you gonna you're eligible to enter this uh contest, Coach Ward?
SPEAKER_02I would I have to know what an edit is first. Oh, this is perfect. So, coach, what it what it what it what an edit is, okay?
SPEAKER_04It's like a video. What are you gonna do a little edit? Is it a clip? Actually, what we're gonna do is a little edit on the show right now, Coach, because it's really like a movie trail, how it's been explained to me. So if you could really quick kick off, if we were doing a Chris Ward basketball edit, kick off your little 6'7. How do you do 6'7 when you see Maddie? 6'7, Maddie. Nah, he does it much better. He does a 6'7. Coach Ward would not win the $500 for the edit in that scenario. He is so much better, almost better when my daughter's around.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna say the early front runner on the edit is going to be um probably our most devoted viewer uh team is the Westlake uh flag football team. Somebody in there is gonna they do the best graphics. Uh-huh. They have post-game stats. I mean, I'm following this stuff. They're they're still undefeated, by the way. You know, we obviously they do they make their own t-shirts like you do. Yeah, I mean, locked in t-shirt. They had their own t-shirts. Um, they beat Putt Valley 32-7. They're undefeated. They are they're storming here. And uh Juliana Di Marino, big reason why. She had a couple touchdowns, two touchdowns um to uh host of different players in this team, but uh Jacqueline DeGrelli is one of them. And so they've uh they're they're they're motoring along, man. They've they've been impressive.
SPEAKER_04Listen, my vote is someone from Blindbrook is going to uh to win. This contest was developed by uh by Sebastian, my son. It was his idea. So I uh of course support that. And uh if he doesn't push all these Blindbrook kids, lacrosse, baseball, you name it, to build the best edit and get the most views, then you know he might have to get fired at his job. I don't know. I don't know how it's gonna work with that guy.
SPEAKER_00I'll tell you something. So we were working together yesterday, we were at your place, and um he came in right from school, barely even said hello. He's like, I had his computer in his hand. Like, I'm gonna start working, you know. He got to do it. He's ready. He's ready to do it. How many kids uh are out working, which is good.
SPEAKER_04So uh well I told him he's getting cut off for for for college, he's gotta pay his own college stuff. So now he's like, I gotta work. So awesome. He's ready. All right, so listen, let's go with your uh your top three boys lacrosse first.
SPEAKER_00So, all right, so I told you a few weeks ago about boys lacrosse this season in particular, was that it was very clear cut who the number one teams are. And then like this past week, we got a little bit of uh uh like don't not so fast. So you KDJ Jinx, you forget it's not a jink, it's just maybe I overlooked a couple of uh a couple teams.
SPEAKER_04I let's so we'll start on the boys' side. It's a good man for you to take accountability for your possible.
SPEAKER_00I'm a known um I beat myself up. You know, I kind of do.
SPEAKER_04I'm uh, he he picked the if he says if he's wrong, he he he will he invented the word low light for my vocabulary. So yeah, he is. He does. He does.
SPEAKER_00He does. Low light, low light is in reference to I made a video for my daughter at their basketball game of a couple of plays that I didn't really think she was uh giving maximum effort on. And I wanted to show it to her. And uh John was there when my wife found out that I did this, and uh he got to hear the term low light and uh the this anger in her face. John is still. I was not gonna tell the story. I was not gonna do it. I'm an open book, man. That's it. I was not gonna do it, okay? Donna, I love you. It wasn't me. She wasn't you, she's gonna look back at this one of the turning points of her career. Uh down the road. But not right now. Um not right now. Um all right, so on the boys' side, we'll start with class A. Mamarinick, all right, nobody's uh kind of threatening them right now, at least not in uh in my mind. They're 8-3, 5-0 uh in section one. The big deal, obviously, is their overall records for these teams. You're gonna see these, and you're gonna be like, well, they're seventh in bracketology in game day one. But like, no, trust me, they're they belong as in the top three teams. Yeah. Umeronic is obviously still the top. Uh Brian Auker, Jude Meisner, Nate Coolish, they are just so deep. I mean, the the the the the attack on this team is is so good. You don't know where the next goal is coming from. They're just completely dominating. Um, and it had uh two wins this week by a combined of uh 30 uh 40 44 to 4. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER_02This is the golden generation from Amerinick right now, as far as their high school athletic programs on both the boys and girls side, it feels like boys, especially, especially football section.
SPEAKER_00Yep. Um, yeah, listen, obviously they went to the state final in field hockey. Hey girl, boys and girls, you're right. I'm thinking about this. I'm like, the field hockey team went to the state final again. They won the state championship last year. Boys uh the football team won uh the section for the first time.
SPEAKER_02Girls basketball went to the county center, boys won the gold ball.
SPEAKER_00So like they're right there with each other.
SPEAKER_02It's been it's a it's the golden generation, right?
SPEAKER_00We're gonna talk about the the the lacrosse team here. Uh softball's in softball's good. Baseball's one of the front runners, they're not the front runner anymore in the in that. But we'll talk about that too. Yeah, lacrosse is uh the boys' side, eight and three. He said five and oh in the section. Um White Plains, 10-1. Only loss was to Stanford, where we currently are. Eddie Ryan, Patrick Dooley, Chris LaRosa. Uh they're they're just a solid group. Uh and uh coach Mark Armagita and this team is just keep getting better and uh improving down the stretch, you know, maybe find their way to a section championship. And who knows? Marinick, all the pressure in the world will be on the Marinick if White Plains is able to get there. So you have to get through Scarsdale, who's my number three team, at five and five, four and four. They've been they've been really up and down. And we'll find out what they really how how they really are as a team when they play Lake Lampanis, and then they have White Plains coming up. They play Yorktown tonight. That's gonna be a tough matchup. I don't know if they can be York. Town, but um they are uh they're in the hunt, you know.
SPEAKER_02You're gonna find out where they're at these next three games.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're not yeah, they're they're they're there. I mean they're obviously there. There's Scarzo's always been in the mix. They've kind of been they've they've traditionally been kind of like a late blooming team, you know, over the course of the season anyway. So uh on the class B side, we mentioned Yorktown, they're number one, eight and two, six and one. Now I had them as like a decisive number one over the team that beat them in last year in the section championship. Horace Greeley. They only beat him by a goal this week. Nine-eight. Nine-eight. So it's not as decisive as I once thought. Um, you know, Yorktown is a team that you know that I've watched. They rely a lot on possession. Great, great goal, uh goalkeeper play. Um, and you know, and and winning draws and like Greeley kind of matched them. So they uh they're they're right there. Um Frankie Ofrias had four goals in that game. Carney's were great as well, but a nine-eight win over Horace Greeley, who dropped to five and six in the season, defending champions. They're facing a brutal schedule. They're four and four in the section. They've you know, they've they face they face Rye, they face everyone who's good. Uh Luke Desi, Thomas Pollard leading the way. They really need like that that next sort of like consistent goal scorer uh on this team.
SPEAKER_02So Kev, my my my thing for for our viewers out there, for our people to follow us, when they see the records of the teams that we've listed, yeah, they have to understand that there's a uh you know asterisk by it where they're they're powerful. Yeah, the power their their schedules are brutal.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and that's what lacrosse does. I mean, nobody cares about wins and losses once the playoffs start. Just, you know, no, this you have the only way the iron chaperone's iron is is applicable to all sports, but it really it's it's like necessity in lacrosse. Absolutely. Because it's so easy in lacrosse to just you know, people that may not know, you know, it's just like it'd be like getting easy fast break layoffs in basketball. It doesn't do anybody any good, you know. I saw a video this week, someone talking about this about uh overwhelming AAU basketball. Like this is the the disparity in talent, and it was just layup, layup, layup. I'm like, neither team got better today. No, like that was a whole agreed. So it it's applicable in uh in lacrosse as well. May I pack's number three. There was a bunch of teams I could have put in there, but um Ryan LaRue, uh, two goals, six assists, been great defensively in their most recent win. Um Landis Siracco, um Gavin O'Keefe, yeah, and they have pieces too. They can easily go into the postseason and be a dangerous team. Um they don't have that like marquee win totally yet, but um, they have more opportunities down the stretch. On the in the Class D side, obviously the most competitive of the classes, I think, right now is Rye, is number one, uh, eight and three on the year. They just uh lost to Don Bosco. Uh they beat Bronxville, they beat Scarsdale. You know, this team is gonna go with the ups and downs of a of a brutally tough schedule. So they are uh they got Yorktown and Meredith next week, so it doesn't get any easier. No. Umber one in A and number one in B, and two state-ranked teams. And that's kind of the way they want it. I I feel like these this Rye team um with Henry Schumacher, Carson Miller, Luke Denver, this whole group, they they've played so many big games in all sports over the course of their career. They don't want a game at this point of their lives that isn't like enough a top echelon team. That they're not looking to go out and beat anyone 19 2. Like that's not that's not that's not fun. It's not fun. It's not it's not making they know it's they know what it takes to win in all sports, and like so you kind of have to say that they probably would say, like, give us whatever like Don Bosco, they don't hang their heads after a loss like that.
SPEAKER_02Don Bosco is Don Bosco's Don Bosco. You know, they're they're nationally ranked at a high level, and you know, and uh they're all they're undefeated here. Their three losses are outside section.
SPEAKER_00Totally. So uh Somers is five and five. They're uh coming off a loss, a tough loss to Greeley. Um they lost three in a row. Greeley, Mamerick, Ridgefield, Connecticut. I mean, that's that's a tough. Um they're trying to get better. Jordan Hirsch is another coach. They won a state championship last year with the a lot of the players back. Obviously, they they lost a good amount, but uh a lot of the players return. They know what it takes to win, uh, keep getting better. Three is a tough one because there's a bunch of teams that were kind of in the mix. Um, I went with Pelham as my number three team, seven to four uh seven three in section one. By him Hills was also in consideration, but they they you know they lost for the first time record-wise, it'd be easy to put a 12-in-one team in there. Uh, but Pelham, I think, when all said and done, would be the better team at the end of the day. So I will go with them as my three number three team. And then we go to Class D. Uh Bronxville, Nick Martinelli won over 200 career points this week. So Unreal. Congratulations. Great for him. And uh he's he's a fun guy to watch. I mean, like if he it's it's lacrosse is a sport where you know the the great players stand out um pretty easily. But like you can go to a game and someone can tell you, like, there's a kid in this team that's 200 points. You watch like one minute of them playing, like it's him. You know, yeah. Like it is so clear because he is he is so uh electric, such a great playmaker in the middle there on the attack. So Bronxville is a Class D school playing all the larger schools. Pleasantville, they got that, they got a nice win. So, you know, obviously, Byram Hills undefeated. I think this was a confidence boosting win for them to go on the road, win 17-12. Um, hand Byram Hill is their first loss of the season. I think it's like, you know, yes, everyone understands the schedules are not equal. Um, but like sometimes you need just like good morale for a team. And uh they got it. Go on the road, kind of knock Byram Hills down a peg, cross town, go down and down to Hagen Road, play them. Absolutely, uh, you know, lose your self-service on the way there. And uh, you know, and then uh Brian Darty, Mateo, uh Petra Chone, George Kennedy, they all played great. And uh Pleasantville got that win, and it's a little bit launching pad. Again, another guy who we talk about, like you know, you don't doesn't take you long to understand, is uh uh you know prolific goal scorer, Nick Danapoli from Westlake. Uh Westlake's my number three team, another class where you could kind of go in different directions. But even at four and six in Section 1 over, I I still think Westlake's you know threatening. Um strength is a good thing. I don't know if they can beat, yeah, I don't think it beat um either the two teams ahead of them on on a on the right day, maybe anything can happen. But um they're the next of the pack, I think. Right.
SPEAKER_04I watched Nick play. You could tell right there from the stands, like he he he is a kid that that when he played against Bleinbrook, he was a kid that you had to watch out for. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um Blindbrook is a team that I thought about as number three, but I was like, well, they lost to Wesley. Yeah, you know, how could he do that? Better record. Um, but to me, uh Danapoli is a special athlete quarterback. You know, he was a guy in football, he was a running back until like the first game, and they were like, We need you, we need you touching the ball on every play. He played quarterback growing up, but like he wasn't a varsity quarterback, wasn't a high school quarterback, and then takes over. And uh, you just saw like just God's gift of playmaking abilities, you know, you got to put him at the right season. He had a really good fall. Yeah, he did.
SPEAKER_02Obviously, now he's now he's even having a special, much better spring.
SPEAKER_04In a football town. And before we leave Boys Lacrosse, though, I do want to uh I do want to put a uh player to watch on here. Uh Tyler Terresteen is 17 points away. 17 points away for uh being the all-time leading point holder in section one. Yeah, it's amazing. Dwayne Gretzky. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he might pretty special category. It's pretty special category, yeah. He'll have uh 411, I think 411 points is to break the record, 410 is to tie it. He's 17 points away from breaking the record, I believe. And uh, I mean, I just think about this kid like one, he we talk about in basketball, he's a great basketball player. Uh he's a great kid. He's been friends with my son, uh Sebastian uh forever. Friends say we're really, really tiny. He's been really great, great kid, great family. He's been great to Nathaniel, my son who uh was their face-off starter until he got hurt, and um leadership, everything, and then for this kid to be 17 points away from this section record, he's one of the kids you look on the field and you're like, eh, he's big. He doesn't look so fast. He probably can't can't, whatever. And then when he gets the the the ball, he just moves and splits these defenses like like butter. Yeah, it's like butter. It's it's actually amazing to watch.
SPEAKER_00It is, and so much of lacrosse is about angles and and timing, right? And uh he's very good at it. I mean, it's something you watch and you see like he he's you know, like they say about basketball, some player who sees the floor, a point cutter sees the floor. In lacrosse, like he in basketball is not playing the point. So seeing the floor doesn't really do much. But in lacrosse, he's basically like that, and he's that type of player. He sees the floor and he's able to move and find a spot and and score or or set somebody up. I mean, that's what he does. I think the unselfish play that he has is uh it's it's kind of set him apart. Um and and listen, there's plenty of people are gonna say though, oh he played for Blindbrook, Class D school, breaking the record. You know, it should be someone from Yorktown or Rye or Somers who plays that and obviously it's a it's a different situation, but he's deserving of the record because of just how well rounded his game is and um and how much he's matured as a player. And honestly, you know, like again, it's it's kind of nice that it's not from a traditional powerhouse program in sometimes, you know, when you see that. It kind of will help the program in ways 10 years down the road, you know, like in helping kids want to play and seeing him.
SPEAKER_02It's it's the it's Tyler Terrestine's gonna have the same effect that Anthony had has had in the Dobbs Ferry youth community. Yep. He's gonna he's go he's has that effect right now. Kids are gonna look up to Tyler Terrerstein and say, I want to put a lacrosse stick in my hand in Rybrook, and they're gonna want to play for Blindbrook. And more kids will be involved because of what Tyler's done and him breaking this record. It's gonna be huge for that community.
SPEAKER_04It is, it is, and hopefully we have him on uh we will have him on actually after he breaks the record. Uh I was speaking to his parents last night. We're really excited for him to do that, especially senior year.
SPEAKER_00You love jinxing kids before they break records, huh? You know, like you had uh we had Jake Pampolino on, but he didn't jinx it.
SPEAKER_04I brought the record show. We have this all over YouTube. I brought Jake on the day, the day he had to break the record. And did he break the record?
SPEAKER_00He did.
SPEAKER_04He did. He did.
SPEAKER_00He did easily against Tap and T. He was great.
SPEAKER_04So I can't be called the Jinx in this scenario. In that scenario, no. I just uh I'm before we we move on to the fact that. Right. You're the Jinx fan, okay, and I'm just the one that breathes confidence in winning. Yankee fan. X-Met. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00X-Meth fan.
SPEAKER_04X-Meth fan. Me too. Me too. After yesterday.
SPEAKER_00I quit.
SPEAKER_04After yesterday, it was bad. Well, listen, we're not gonna dive into that, but still, Kevin had the greatest line. Like, did you know that we sent uh people around the moon before before the Mets actually had a win? That was still my most famous Met line of uh of all time. So before we move on to the girls, uh that's Kevin's choices. We'll put this all across social media. Fans, you vote. Let us know if he's right or wrong next week. So we could uh we could agree with them or roast them a little bit. At the end of the day, it's gonna matter in a three, three weeks now, almost four weeks. Four weeks now for the championship when you guys get there. So uh keep playing hard and creating those winning moments. And now let's move on to the girls. Who are your top three?
SPEAKER_00So just before I have this on my mind, so you were talking about uh the Mets losing streak and the burn on the moon. So last night my my kids taking a shower and my son gets in the shower, and the Knicks were like, it was like 13-9, and he gets out of the shower and it was 72 22. And it was like, how long was that shower? You know, like it was crazy. Umsane. Insane. Insane. We had that basketball game. Uh now on the girl's side. It wasn't even a professional basketball game, by the way. It was like uh I was imagining paying money to go to that game.
SPEAKER_04No. Oh man. No, no, my brother's in Atlanta. He he called me before the game. He's like, ah, I was gonna go to the game. By the way, Atlanta, he could have got floor seats in Atlanta last week. He was in Atlanta for for uh uh an event, and he could have got floor seats for $1,800.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04In Atlanta, okay, winner go home, floor seats, eighteen hundred dollars. Those same floor seats in New York City, if you could have gotten them, okay, because the wait list is crazy, would have cost you like 15 grand. It's absolutely insane the difference in that scenario.
SPEAKER_00Maybe you got a chance to play in the game. Yeah. That's how bad it was. I could have hit a three. I got a three in that game. All right, so now on the girls across side. Uh, we start in class A, number one team, obviously multi-town defending champion. Suffren eight and one, seven and oh in section one on the season. Um hell Bronxville the five goals. This is a not uh obviously a great defensive team, but what Nevin Sullivan does uh at draw controls and just controlling the possession, uh, you know, there's a shot clock, but Suffram just seems to have the ball the entire game. It's just the way they play. Uh they've they've kind of been their MO over the years. Just um the unselfish play, the passing, um, winning draws and uh and winning games. That's how you do it. And uh and the girls across sides. And so Suffram is uh, you know, consensus number one team. Wappingers, you know, they just want to crack. Uh eight and two on the season, eight and one in section one. Alexa Reeves, five goals. Ava Feliciattle, four goals, three assists, um, bounce stacking their win over Clarkstown South. And um, you know, Wappingers, you know, they've only lost a one game in section one. That was the John J. Cross River. They don't play Suffern in the regular season, which is always like that's odd, too. Yeah, they've uh they're on a three-game winning street beat, Lakeland Panas, Mayapack, Clarkstown South. Um, they've done well. Sometimes, you know, coach, maybe by design, maybe you don't want to play the team. Maybe they won't play on one time. For Wappingers, beating Suffron in the regular season won't mean anything. They gotta beat them in the championship.
SPEAKER_02It comes down to section championship if they're both fortunate enough to get there, and then we'll see what happens.
SPEAKER_00And this is the the third team. So I'm I'm jumping up the talk about this. Um the schedule Maronick plays, they're number seven in bracketology, so they could be looking at maybe not even being home for the playoffs. Um, and uh I have them as my number three team. Putting them ahead of North Rockland, White Plains, Arlington, Austin. Because of the schedule, uh Lucy Bevelacqua had six goals, Ellis Stanley, four goals, six draw controls, and their win over Albertus Magnus. Uh my Maronick's squad is is excellent. The schedule's tough. They just lost. They lost as heartbreaking a game as I think the 0.1 second, I think 0.7 seconds they give up a goal. Lost to St. Dominic's, got the squad of Long Island. Yep. Very good programs. Up a cut, and they've they've been St. Dominic's been really good all season in Long Island. So uh, you know, those losses, they're 5-7, 5-6, and have a chance to maybe go to the championship. Um, so they're my number three team in Class A. Class B, Nyack, defending state champions, five and three, five and oh. They beat Ursulin 18-7 this week. Um, you know, we we obviously talk about Casey Cummings, but Lila Gilbert, uh, Ella Goulds, this team is so loaded, so deep, so talented. Um, and now in Class B, you know, they're gonna have to divide with Yorktown. So instead of having to beat Rye like they had last couple seasons, they had to beat Yorktown this year. Yorktown's been playing well. They're my number two team, 9-2 overall, 6-2 in Section 1. Uh, their losses this year to Nyak and Rye. And they just beat Ridgefield 19-7.
SPEAKER_02That is a very impressive win to beat Ridgefield, Connecticut that bad.
SPEAKER_00And the way they do it, I mean, this team is uh it's pretty loaded. So uh Yorktown is uh my number two team. Is that's gonna be probably, you know, looking at championships and projections, they're gonna be probably the that that that's gonna be the best, maybe the best game of the weekend uh or the week when they play at Lakeland for the uh section championship. Uh they got to play Suffron before the end of the season, and they gotta play Pleasantville. So um, you know, they got tough games uh upcoming and some goods in Pelham. So uh Mayapack number three team. Um I I I I would put Nyack and Yorktown kind of on their own level, and then Mayapac's number three team, but seven and four, six and four in section one. Uh they're another team that's a little lower in bracketology. They have won seven games out of eight. Um and Ashley Koch, just a terrific athlete, one of the best athletes, female athletes in the section. She's had 200 points this week, second most in program history. Congratulations to Ashley and her family. Yeah, she's Pac LaCrosse. Yeah, they are she's uh she's terrific. Class C. We go to Rye at 7-3, 7-0 on the season in Section 1. Mary Eberling, uh, five assists in their uh their win this week. Uh Mia Housen, uh Bo Whaling. This team, uh so talented, so loaded, and coached, they welcome somebody back this week.
SPEAKER_02That would be Paige Teppedino of the of the very famous athletic family over in Rye. Maybe the most athletic. Yes, the Teppedino family.
SPEAKER_00The brothers are gonna hate that. Yeah, she's she's great.
SPEAKER_02Um, obviously, happiness year come back too from that ATL.
SPEAKER_00She came back on Thursday, came back uh Thursday, scored a goal in their win over Brian. So good. So just an emotional lift for them. And I know I talked to her, I feel bad because she's going to USC, so her future is mapped out. She's going to, you know, an elite, uh probably one of the most desirable colleges to go to, uh Southern California, right? Fight on. Yeah, so fight on. She's she's got her future. Rye is uh, you know, probably considered a heavy favorite to win. Not that they don't need her, but like she wants to play. She wants to come back. Of course she does. She worked senior year. Yeah, senior year, really wanted to come back, lost her whole basketball season after being the point guard of a section championship team as a junior, lose her whole basketball season. And uh, she really worked hard to come back. And when I talked to her about it, I could tell like she wasn't so comfortable talking because she didn't really know. She didn't know what you know what the leg was gonna feel like. It was gonna if she doesn't play again this season or plays very limited, like she got back on the field and scored another goal. She kind of got got to go on her own terms. Yes, which is also said. Well, so I'm happy for her. She's a great kid, great family. Um, Pelham, 9-1, 8-1. Colleen Sheehe, another basketball player. Um, eight draw control. She is she's a difference maker. So you know, when they play rye, they're not gonna have that that possession advantage against Pelham uh because Sheehee, she's great. Um, she's she's really got she's continues to get better. Uh we know the talent that this Pelham team obviously has with Brooke Green, um, and uh just down the down the line of scoring ability. You need to have the ball to do it, and Sheehe's uh uh someone who's uh instrumental in that. They've won nine in a row since losing to Rye in the opening game of the season. All the pressure in the world will be on Rye if they meet again for a championship. Um, you know, and Pelham, you know, listen, we've mentioned some names. Uh a lot of these girls basketball players, you know. Yeah, Colleen Sheehy's a really good screen, and um, you know, there's more. So um these girls know what it takes and played in big games. So it's uh, you know, pressures me on Rye. Um number three team is uh John Jay Cross River at 5-5, 4-3. Uh Tino Rajimani, uh two goals, seven assists, and a win early this week. John Jay's got a nice resume. They're kind of lurking, they're kind of like a little bit of the forgotten team sometimes in class C. Um, missed out. Eastchester had it has having a great season, nine and two, but uh we're going to only top threes this week.
SPEAKER_04So only top three.
SPEAKER_00Class D, Pleasantville girls, 12-0, 9-0, and just uh rolling. Rolling. Uh Samantha Schultz, four goals, four assists. Matty Becerra, four goals, three assists. Julie Crockey, three goals uh in the win this week. They just uh beat Eastchester 20 to 4.
SPEAKER_02So that is what are they they they've got to be averaging, what, 15, 16 goals a game?
SPEAKER_00I think it's more. I think it's more. We can we I mean just uh crazy. Yeah, it's it's it's uh remarkable. Um what they're doing as a team offensively here.
SPEAKER_04And uh it's not just one. It's not just one.
SPEAKER_00According to this, according to my records, they have uh 224 goals in 12 games. So yeah, they're looking about just yeah, 24, 240 goals would be 20. I gotta do that. I gotta do that long, I gotta do that long division. So what do you got here? You got 18 game, 18 a game. You know, so like they're right in that range. I only allowed 82. Um a lot of the goals they allow are like when they're up 16 to 1. You know, so like, you know, they if you talk to people around Pleasantville, they they really want to play tough teams. They want a tough schedule. They need to get ready for when it matters with defending champions. Well, here you go. Horace Greeley next uh is next on the girls' side. Not not uh gonna be a tough game for them, but they're gonna finish with Yorktown, Rye, Pelham. There you go. They get ready for best. And so, like, what you know, whether it was the coaching staff or who made the schedule, that's great. I mean, it gives them, you know, maybe you get humbled, just get a little better um going to the postseason. But get ready for Long Island. 22-4, 24, 2010, 84. That's not doing anybody good. They want to continue. Um Briar Cliff's number two team, coming off a tough loss, tough week. Um, lost to Pleasantville and Ryan back-to-back games. But uh they're the number two team, eight and three, eight and two. Um they just lost by 10 goals to Pleasantville, so there's a big separation between number one, number two in our list. But probably Bronxville, you know, at the end of the day, will be the team that I have them at number three, but um Charlotte Murray, four goals. They're four and four in the season. Um their see their schedule kind of really picks up here in the second half. Uh, and they play tough teams. So like Bronxville girls, it's always gonna be Bronxville, Pleasantville as the teams to be. Briar's gonna try and sneak in there. But uh, those are my uh top threes from the girls' side.
SPEAKER_04Well, we appreciate that. Remember, those are his top threes, and uh your top threes matter the most. If you guys agree or disagree, let your voices be heard. I'm sure uh Maya Pack's gonna have a lot to say about some of the things that you said uh here. Yeah, because they're a very loud community. We want to hear your voices.
SPEAKER_00It's not a personal thing, you know.
SPEAKER_04No, no one's saying attack Kevin. It's not attack Kevin show. This is like, hey, listen, let's support our community show and uh and come out on top.
SPEAKER_00I got a prank phone call last night, dude. I'd tell you this. No, somebody pranked my phone, so I assumed it was like a high school kid, like some kid didn't like something I said, and it wasn't anything mean, but it was like a video, and they're trying to it, it was I can't get into the details, but it was funny, and I I hung up, and then uh I found out it was my daughter. Really? On the way home from AU. This is how she amuses herself. She decides to prank dad uh on the way home.
SPEAKER_02Did she change her voice or something like that?
SPEAKER_00No, she played a video off YouTube with another phone, they put them side to side. It was a oh boy. It was a Chinese restaurant.
SPEAKER_04Wait, wait, was this was this one one one of your daughters or they both played the prime?
SPEAKER_00She's the only one that would do something like this. My oldest daughter, Daria. Devin would never do something like this. Devin's sweet. I I if you had to guess, you know who it was. I knew who it was.
SPEAKER_04Listen, maybe they're maybe they were maybe they were in tandem. That's actually that's great, and I can't wait to uh I can't wait to see the video that was played. Okay, of my uh my people. So uh I love I love I love my Fridays. I love my Fridays. All right, moving right on to uh to what is becoming our fastest growing and favorite segment across social media is uh our winning moments, our honor roll here. So we're gonna go back and forth. We're doing very well here. Uh Coach, you waiting your turn. Uh we know how impatient you get when you want to talk about these kids, especially because a lot of these kids on this list are uh kids that have run through the Chris Ward basketball program. So some of them have, absolutely.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So there still must be something going on over there in uh in Chris Ward basketball camp that makes these kids so good across all these uh all these sports.
SPEAKER_00They listen. So it's no surprise. And they and you know, just just speaking to that for a second, the kids who want to put work in and go to extra things and not just go to what mom and dad signed up for in town and like like they want to go to Chris Ward basketball, they want to go to camps, they want to go to clinics, they have success. They're the kids who want to work and become better.
SPEAKER_02Well, they they because they they they have the drive to do so, they have the motivation.
SPEAKER_00You probably have kids in other sports who never didn't didn't continue on to basketball who you had in your camps. Absolutely. You don't even remember. I mean, you have a photograph memory, but um yeah, you probably don't remember some of these names that uh yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean we we try to give them and still the values in them that carry over to the other sports, the discipline, the the grind, the understanding how how much work you put in. What you put in is what you get out of it. And they've they've been successful for that.
SPEAKER_00Nobody's put more work into becoming the top goalie in uh section one than this one.
SPEAKER_04Hunter Mesatesta. Tell us about it.
SPEAKER_00Hunter Mesatesta of Yorktown. Obviously, huge name coming into the season, gonna go to Virginia. Um, fourth year varsity player, broke the school's all-time uh record for saves in their win over John Jay on Wednesday. Previous record was set in 1981 by a guy by the name of Joe Colaruso, who just happens to also be Hunter Meso Testa's goalie coach. So he got to uh you know, coach Coach uh Colaruso didn't cut like a little hole in his net or something at the last practice. Let's work out to uh get hold that record for another day. 45 years. So that's the thing, too. When records get broken, like records get broken all the time in all levels of sports, but when records are more than 20 years old and get broken, like that is amazing. It's amazing. So for someone to do that, no the thing is now, especially with lacrosse, is that goalie is such a specialized position that there's very few kids that play it but put the work into it. So you don't usually get four-year players because there's usually someone like every couple years who's like a goalie, finds that's their niche that's they want to do. But Hunter was so good as a freshman they could not play him. Um, and so he goes in, uh, he set the record with 703 saves set by Joe Collaruso. And Hunter breaks the record uh with 704, and now he's at 716 and counting. He may have had some uh this past week, so he might be over 716. But um, you know, he's he's marching on, and he's as I said, he's gonna be go down as one of the best goalies ever played in Section 1.
SPEAKER_02Unbelievable. What a career he's had. And of course, I'm sure he doesn't want it down until they get to the state final. So they got a shot with him in the net.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, they do. Absolutely. Legitimate shot. Listen, when you when when you talk about kids who play so well, it's all about other. And let's move on to uh number two, coach. Number two, we have two players in number two here. We have Nate Mascal and Drew Lichtenberg.
SPEAKER_02Lichtenberger, absolutely, from Mayapack Baseball. Both of their big days propel Mayapack Varsity Wolfpack past Yorktown varsity cornhuskers. Mascal drives in four runs on three hits to lead Maya Pack 12-2 on Thursday over Yorktown. He had a home run to left field in the first inning, scoring three runs, and doubled in the sixth inning, scoring one. Lichtenberger's first inning two-run homer got the momentum going. An 11-1 win versus league matchup Lakeland as well. So big week for Mayapack baseball.
SPEAKER_00Bounce back week. They were a team that was. They needed it bad. They had a couple, I mean, listen, they're loaded. They were my number one team. They're still my team to beat in class AA. They're sitting atop the rankings. Horace Greeley's right behind. Rye's obviously defending champion. But they went through a little bit of a stretch where they just like couldn't, you know, put the bats together, couldn't find a little trouble in the field. Um, it's the ebbs and flows of baseball, and uh it's amazing what a couple home runs can do, right? Uh Springboard, so they won this past week. They won 12-2 over Yorktown, like you said, 11-1 over Lakeland, and then they got some great pitching. 2-0 win over Horace Greeley. So uh they got another matchup with Horace Greeley uh today. They got Ryan on the schedule coming up. They have a couple games against Car. So, like, you know, they're gonna be challenged, but uh they turned it around losing uh three out of six.
SPEAKER_02Nice to get those best going and get 23 runs. No, three.
SPEAKER_00Remember the losses were to Arlington, Ketchum, and uh Yorktown. So, you know, rival teams. So like you gotta get that confidence coming in, coming into the playoffs.
SPEAKER_04Uh our next player here, Jade Triunfo.
SPEAKER_00Triunfo from Arlington. You remember remember her from uh uh girls basketball was a key part of the five that led uh Arlington to uh pass Ursulin to the county center. Yes, sir. Um they did something no one else has done this year. They beat Tappa Z. They did it uh with defense, incredible game from Jade. Triunfo intercepts the ball uh to secure a victory. She had 60 yards receiving and a touchdown, two interceptions in the game, great game all around for uh for Arlington and uh coach Mike Schumacher, who's uh taking over the program. And you know, it's a big thing with Girls Flag football, which we talked about. It's about getting the best athletes who maybe don't play this ring sport to play flag. And uh Jade is one of those players, fits right into this team, goes into the defensive side, just a terrific athlete and uh difference maker in their biggest win of the season. And and you know, now they head down the stretch as uh as a threat. You know, we look at on the girls' flag side at the at the highest level, Scarsdale defending state champions, and we kind of said they're the number one team. Arlington's 9-1 and one. You know, Mamarinick just beat Scarsdale. So um, this is a wide open race in uh in this. They've won four in a row and they've done it by giving up six points, zero points, six points, thirteen points.
SPEAKER_02And and the and to beat a very good tap and Z team. I mean, that is a statement we're gonna do.
SPEAKER_00And you're already the best player in the section, uh and quarterback.
SPEAKER_02And they did a good job of neutralizing her abilities. Yeah, totally.
SPEAKER_04Listen, I'm I'm so excited about Flag Football Championship. We'll uh we'll be covering the championship along with uh as part of our our section one championship coverage. We'll talk about that at some other point, but I'm so excited to watch these girls play in this championship game. Uh coach, you're up next here. We got Brian Darty.
SPEAKER_02Brian Darty, Pleasantville Boys Lacrosse versus Westlake, four goals, one assist. And in the statement win that they needed this week versus Byram Hills to knock them out of the to knock Byram Hills out of the ranks of the unbeaten, he had five goals, three assists. His week total, nine goals, four assists, 13 total points. And as I said before, Pleasantville really needed a statement win on the boys' side. Yeah, and they got beating an uh uh past undefeated Byram Hills Bobcat lacrosse team. Yep.
SPEAKER_04Listen, I don't gamble, and we can't gamble in high school sports, but I would have bet that Pleasantville would have won because uh, you know, Kevin mentioned Byron Hills on the undefeated team. So I would have just bet that guaranteed the victory. So I was waiting for someone to notice this.
SPEAKER_00We did a whole thing on undefeated teams last week. Uh Tepezie lost, Byron Hill lost. There's all those. I don't want to bring them up because uh I it was my segment last week that we said this. But the whole point was saying that, like, man, you get to the you get to almost May undefeated, like in the spring. That's you're you're doing something.
SPEAKER_02You said, but you in in defense to you now. I'm gonna be your counselor, I'm gonna be your lawyer for a second. You said that you don't you think that this list is gonna change by next week. And yeah, it next week is here, and it has changed. It has changed.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Our fifth player in the honor roll. Our fifth player here. Uh uh, we have Paige Paina from Austin Girls Across.
SPEAKER_00Now, Paige is a great story. So Paige's coach reached out to me um and asked, and is by the way, his name is Rich uh Emmond. Eadmond. Eden Edmond, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I talked to him this morning. He's my uh I went we grew up in the Bronx and he told me this. He's my best, my brother's one of my brother's best friends. That is crazy.
SPEAKER_00Coach Emond reaches out to me randomly because the story is this. So Paige Pena played lacrosse as she's a great all-around athlete. Um she played lacrosse as a freshman and had a terrific season as a freshman and decided that like just to walk away from the program. She's gonna play college uh soccer, uh, division two level, and she's also a bowler in the winner, so she's just someone who can just kind of do everything. And she decided with Coach Iman coming back, and like, hey, let's let's get back on the field. And this is what I love the most when a player just goes and plays a sport because oh my god, it's fun, and like we just we're not it's not all about playing in college, it's not all about winning. Like, we can go and play with my friends and do something for front. Like, you kind of forget, like, that is like sort of what we're all here for. That's the reason we're doing it. And she's been awesome. She had seven goals, three assists, and a win over Hastings, six goals, five assists, and a win over uh Haldame, four goals and an assist and a loss to Albertus on Thursday. So, again, 26 points in three games this week. She's been awesome on ground balls, great defense, uh, all around. And as I said, she's gonna play college soccer. Now, Coach Chris Ward, what do I hate? What do I dislike more than anything? Ask someone asking me questions on the show. I'm gonna ask you a question. Where, what state is Grand Valley State University?
SPEAKER_02It's in Michigan, they're in the Great Lakes conference. And you're one for one. They're one of the one top, they're one of the top division two conferences in the country. She's going to big girl soccer.
SPEAKER_00Okay. What is their school nickname? I think we didn't we didn't rehearse this at all. I think it's the Lakers. It is the Lakers.
SPEAKER_04There is no stumping coach. There is no stumping the coach. Is it the Lakers? I think it's the Lakers.
SPEAKER_02It is the Lakers. It's located up in, I think, Lakers.
SPEAKER_00I'll be near a lake. Yeah. Right on one of the lakes. Unlike the actual Los Angeles Lakers. No, they're not by a lake. Um, that was incredible. That was an absolutely unrehearsed and uh I know division.
SPEAKER_02You won Division Two and Division III. I'm a degenerate college sports watcher for a living.
SPEAKER_04He's a degenerate sports watcher with a photographic memory.
SPEAKER_00So the I don't think anyone understands. Like he's like the Schwab, like a little bit when it comes to college. Like, you don't you watch everything and you don't forget it, and you remember that Grand Valley State University is. It's in the Great Lakes conference. The Lakers. I'm so impressed.
SPEAKER_02Listen, we're gonna do stump to coach submitted. Well, Tom Mizdo was a Division II player at Northern Michigan. So I know about that because I've I I Wikipedia um Tom Mizdo's background.
SPEAKER_01Wikipedia.
SPEAKER_00I don't remember the teams they played. You remember Tom Mizzo? Oh man.
SPEAKER_04Before people think this guy's crazy, let's uh seriously, seriously. Uh send send DM some DM us some questions of coaching. Something coach. Coach, we're coming back to you right now, Rob. We got we got we got our next player, Michaela Faye.
SPEAKER_02Michaela Faye committed to play at the University of Maryland College Park, standout in basketball as well, but she's going for lacrosse versus Garden City. Four goals, one assist in a 12-10, heartbreaking loss to one of the biggest Long Island powers one of the biggest powers in Long Island, one of the biggest um teams in the state. Their first loss of the season um at Suffron. Garden City, number one ranked team in Class B in New York State versus Broxville, three goals, two assists, and a nine to five. Very impressive win against a very good Broxville team. Total this week, seven goals, three assists. We were missing the Horace Greeley statistics, but that's okay. We'll get him for next week. They're seven and one overall, and they're going to get ready to play Bethlehem out of upstate New York, the number 13 ranked team in uh Class B in New York State.
SPEAKER_04I could put anything on this paper and you'd read it. He would, he would, he would, he would definitely do it. And listen, I mean, right now, Coach's voice is Coach's voice because he has played. Coach 63 games. Coach, right? Coach 63 basketball games. And if you've never seen Coach Ward uh coach live games, not camps or player development. Don't don't don't watch it. Uh come to House of Sports every weekend for the next few weeks and you will see him live in all his glory.
SPEAKER_00I think it's um I have a great appreciation for it because if you're gonna watch it, watch it to the end because you're really hard on the kids during the game, and then after the game, you are you're you're talking to them and you're not you're not giving them dirty looks. Like, no, you are I I would say You gotta coach them hard and you gotta care about him.
SPEAKER_02It's hard and shit.
SPEAKER_00Everyone in like the switch flips and uh you know your association.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, I think it's uh it is it is a testament to you because I'm great charm. Right, yeah. It is your great charm. Uh thank you guys. The next one. The next one here. Let's go uh Shane Riley, Kevin.
SPEAKER_00So Shane Riley from RC Catching Baseball, by the way, just a little quick little plug. I I had uh coach Pat Mealy, girls basketball coach, long time baseball coach, just won his 500th game. I had him as my featured guest on the on the Game Day One podcast this week, and um he was incredible. He was it was great, he was very candid talking about himself, his team, um, the way he is in the third base box over the last 27 years, how he's changed as a coach. He's a very competitive guy. Um but uh he has continued to breed a program that is just at the top and really not going anywhere. Um Shane Riley has said, you know, there's been I I kind of want to pick a catch-up baseball player this week. Shane Riley made the most sense for what he's done this past week and really the whole season. A grand slam and a 13-1 win over Arlington. They came back and lost to Arlington the next time around. Uh they've rebounded, beat John Jay on uh Thursday in an all-around solid effort. But on the season, Shane Riley's bounty 4'11, four home runs, seven doubles, seven RBIs, five stolen bases, three-time triple-A champions are 11-2 on the season with uh obviously some tough games left. But uh Shane Riley in the middle of that lineup, Nick Mondesano, they have so many guys in this team, just game in, game out, that contribute, find ways to contribute. Um, Riley is probably the toughest out in the lineup right now with only Mondesano and uh and Durkin. Uh there's there's a bunch. So they are uh they're they're a very formidable lineup, and he's a big reason why.
SPEAKER_04I mean, they're rolling. They are rolling right into these playoffs.
SPEAKER_02Uh coach, let's uh let's move on to a family I know fairly well over in Arnsley.
SPEAKER_00We set this up so the Arsley numb would fall to you.
SPEAKER_02I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Well, you know Sophia Haber in Arsley. Her sister was an outstanding player at Ardsley as well, had a great run at Arsley, great career at Arsley. And now Sophia Haber from Arsley. Gettysburg commit, just committed to Gettysburg to play softball there. Outstanding pitcher, five minutes pitched in game one, 13Ks, 600 career strikeouts.
SPEAKER_04Wait, is that a misprint? 600 career strikeouts?
SPEAKER_02600 career strikeouts now. Um game two, 18 strikeouts and a 1-0 win earlier in the week. Game three, a home run, three RBIs, and the win versus Pleasantville. Week total, 31Ks home run plus multiple wins. She has been a dominant ace. Incredible 600 strikeouts, and and she's just had amazing offensive impact as well. And there's another young lady over there that we're gonna be talking about soon. Um, but not we'll talk about them later. But the the that group, that young group is gonna be okay. So we're happy for we're happy for Sophia Haber and and a great job. She's been working her tail off travel. I know that family. I know Mr. Haber pretty well, talk to him at games, and uh she's just she just does a great job.
SPEAKER_04So if I were to talk to dad, Mr. Haber, would he uh say that she would strike you out in three pitches or four? She'd strike me out in three. Easy.
SPEAKER_02Easy she's really leaning into one. Leader is an amazing be like, what's his name? Uh Corbin Burtson in Major League. It was on TV last night. I watched it. It'd be great. I love it. I love it. Happy for Sophia and her family. Totally.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, congratulations. 600 strikeouts is is insanity in every way. So congratulations. Um, and listen, uh coach, I know you uh you got some voice issues today, but we're coming back at you. Okay, so get ready for uh Anthony Backey.
SPEAKER_02Anthony Batquay from John Jay East Fish Kill Baseball. April 21st, two run home run versus Arlington at Arlington to put John Jay East Fish Cole up 8-5. 425, two out single on top of the seventh to put John Jay East Fishko up 8-7 to 11 7 versus Pearl River. Team swept Arlington, very impressive. Four East Fishkill, John Jay East Fishkill to sweep Arlington. They lost a tough one on Thursday to catch them, three to nothing, but they play catch them today. On Friday, their record's eight and five. They've got two versus Clarkstown South and two versus North Rockland remaining. Yeah. Um Bat K is showing that he can play at a high elite level.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, obviously Jay uh went through some changes. New coach comes in this year. Um they lost some great talent. They're a very seed-laden team. They thought they were gonna win, uh, compete for a section championship last year. They fall short. And this was uh, you know, maybe a transition year for the program, and it's not been. They're right there. I mean, and Bat K has been a big reason why. They lost three games in the middle of the season. They've rebounded with three really had three quality wins after that, two against Arlington, then the Pearl River wins. So um Jay's always gonna be a dangerous team. And uh, you know, Beck K and this this whole group, they are uh they probably like this underdog role. I'm sure they do.
SPEAKER_02Listen, South and North Rockland, two, you know, those two game sets that are gonna have with them will do a lot for their postseason hopes and and how they springboard themselves into the postseason, how they play in those four games. Yep.
SPEAKER_04And wrapping up our uh our top ten here, uh not in order, but wrapping up the top ten, I loved seeing this on our list uh here this week. Lakeland golf.
SPEAKER_00Golf. So we we kind of thrive a little bit. We we we look at the full scope of performances for a week for a season and make our selections, but we also want people to send in submissions. Um Lakeland Golf came forward with a with a pretty convincing case. So they uh they get on uh this week. They set a school record with the lowest total um in a match this year with 194. They did it at Hollow Brook against Haldane. Uh they did it last week, so we kind of had to we held them over a little bit. Uh they've come back, they beat Briarcliffe. Um, and uh they've gotten great play out of their top three. Matt Maloney, Jake Bruno, and Ben Kohler. Um Jake Bruno put up a minus uh two under 33. That's amazing Hollowbrook.
SPEAKER_02So that's a par that's a par 70 out there. Yeah. No, no, they'll play nine holes, obviously. I mean, no, but I mean it's uh 18 holes par 70. So they play 35 in the front. So 35 on and he went two under? Two under, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Unbelievable. I know, and uh, we haven't had like the greatest conditions. The afternoons have been very windy in Hollowbrook. It's a very windy tight course, especially on the front nine. You know, you can get yourself in some trouble there. Not easy not easy to stay on, not easy to stay in the fairway. I played in the tournament there last year. It's a very uh intimidating course because you could be on the fairway and then you could be six feet left and be out of play. So it's uh it's it's a tough course in that regard. Um, and uh yeah, Lakeland Golf. So we're gonna put them in. Coach Joe Knapp, we appreciate his uh contributions to the show here. We had a couple, and honestly, unfortunately, we've had a bunch of other people that sent us submissions that we uh didn't make our top ten, but uh hopefully it's still there's still looks to put through.
SPEAKER_02Kevin, Matt Maloney with an even 35 versus uh Han Hunt. I mean, those kids are right around par or I mean shooting right at par. Yeah. Or and uh in the case of uh Jake Bruno under par, they're they've got a chance to probably win the section and and and yeah, they're gonna be good.
SPEAKER_00Obviously, you know, Ryan on the team side. Yeah, Scarsdale. It's all it's all the usual suspects of the of the teams. But uh for Lakeland to be in that mix, to be to putting up uh sub once you go sub 200, you're on a different level as a as a team. We've seen Rye do it. Rye's done it over the years so many times. They did it at Rye Golf, where they, you know, those kids play Rye Golf since they're the babies. Um, so uh to do number there, but to do it at Hollow Brook is impressive.
SPEAKER_04That's very impressive. Well, it's amazing. Like we say, Rye, Rye is Rye. Uh yes, highlights. So there's 60,000 kids, uh, student athletes here in section one. We can't cover everyone. Uh, we do this each season. So we we've done the winter season and now we're in the uh spring season. We need the help for the highlights. Last week we got about 20 highlights. Let's try to get over a hundred highlights sent in. You can simply text highlights to the phone number, 88500, or visit thewinnymoments.com and click on highlights. You can upload the box score, you can upload just a story, you can upload videos. The more you send us, the more we can cover, the more we can cover, the more exposure we can give these kids. That's what we're really about here. It's all about the kids, never about us or the schools. So let's give them more exposure. And on that note, the top 10 winner from last week, according to the social media votes, was Amelia Walsh from Brewster Girls Lacrosse. Excellent.
SPEAKER_02Congratulations to Amelia and her family in the Brewster Girls Lacrosse program. Fantastic.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. And listen, uh, there is a question before we wrap this show up really quick. Uh there was a question on social media that was brought up to a bunch of times of what do you guys think about uh when we might have boys flag football in high school?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I brought that up last week. Yeah. Um, when? You know, I I've said this to some people, some administrators, and they they said, no way, no way. I I think it's gonna be one of the things that's gonna happen pretty quick if it does happen. Um the question is going to be what season is it?
SPEAKER_04It's gotta be spring.
SPEAKER_00Fields are there's uh schools only have so many fields, right? So I'm I'm playing devil's advocate here. Boys across girls across flag football. Um same deal in the fall, foot uh regular tackle football, field hockey, boys and girls soccer. You have four field sports then. Um where it would fit in. It or does it my thing is does it replace tackle football at some schools?
SPEAKER_02Ooh, ooh, that's I'm glad you said that. I'm glad nobody can kill me now. That's a hot take. That's a hot take that we will discuss. I'm glad Kevin Devaney said that and not Chris Kevin.
SPEAKER_00Uh we're gonna hang on to that one because it's it's not impossible.
SPEAKER_04Tell us your thoughts. Tell us your thoughts across across all of our social media.
SPEAKER_02Kevin, I'm ready for all that now, too. Yeah, look at it. That was the 12 to 6 curveball, and I had no chance at laptop close.
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