HAPPY 96th BIRTHDAY TO DON REYNOLDS,
Greeley Class of '41 and Old School Tie Columnist! See his latest article
'
They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore'
below. The same could be said about you, Don! Wishing you a year of smiles, love and family!
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Girls basketball has been dealing with some adversity in their last outings. On Jan 3rd they faced Ursuline with only 7 players able to participate. Both teams were a bit rusty as it was their first competition since before break. The game was tight all the way through with the game tied at 27 going into the final quarter. Seniors Kat Genda and Jesse Harris have been mainstays for this team all season, yet trailing with a minute left both girls had to foul in order to attempt to get possession back. Unfortunately, both were called for intentional fouls which Ursuline used to their advantage; getting 2 fouls shots and ball control for each of these transgressions. Ursuline comes out on top, 40-35.
Next up was a visit to traditional state powerhouse Ossining. With 8 players available for this match up, the Quakers were outmatched by Ossining's roster of 14 girls. The girls didn't back down and played hard the entire contest but didn't have the resources to match up. Ossining takes the game 36-85.
Onto Fox Lane for the girls and boys doubleheader which is always a spirited evening. Jesse Harris came out blazing and scored Greeley's first 8 points to give them a 12-8 lead at the end of the 1st quarter.
The game continued to be a tight head to head battle and at the half, the teams went into their locker rooms tied at 21. Greeley was in some foul trouble at this point, which has been a problem for them all season. Greeley had a hard time scoring in the third and the refs weren't helping any as at this stage, most of the fouls were being called against the Orange and Blue. Even with their limited offensive output this quarter, the game was close with Fox Lane holding a 31-29 lead. The fourth quarter was a mess for the girls as the fouls continued to come their way. Fox Lane was going to the line and then Greeley was trying to play frantic catch up and gave up some easy layups. Tough last minutes resulted in a 58-41 win for the Foxes.
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The Greeley boys varsity basketball played their first game after the long holiday break against the Pride of
Ossining
. The game began after a terrific rendition of the Star Spangled Banner sung by Abigail Miller. A foul filled first quarter ended with Greeley ahead 11-9. As the second quarter began the Quakers tenacious defense and quicker court speed drove Greeley to a 31-23 halftime lead.Greeley was on fire as the third quarter began with 3 threes on three possessions, stretching the lead to 17. The Quakers stretched the lead to 29, however, due to foul trouble and a run by Ossining, Greeley was only up 19 at the end of the third. The fourth quarter began with a feverish run by the Pride and the lead was cut to 11 with 4:43 left to play. Greeley hung tough and went on to win 67-55. This was a nice way, and the Ossining on the cake, to end the holidays and begin the rest of the season.
The Quakers met a determined
Fox Lane Foxes
team on
Thursday
night. The first quarter was played at a torrid pace and Greeley was winning 11-8 as the quarter ended. The second quarter began at the same quick pace; the Quakers were ready and stretched the lead to 11 by halftime. The Quakers and Foxes traded baskets in the third quarter and the lead was 10 going into the all-important final quarter of the game. The varsity boys held on to the lead even though Fox Lane increased the intensity throughout the quarter. Greeley won the game 54-41. Next up
Spring Valley
on
Monday
at home at 6pm.
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BOWLING
On
Wednesday
, the Boys and Girls teams bowled against
North Salem
.
The Boys team won the match with a score of 5-2 and the Girls lost 0-7. For the girls, Hana Luekerath had high series with a score of 287 and high game of 117. For the boys, Peter Conway had high series with a score of 432 and high game of 163, of which he had three strikes in the 10th frame!
On
Thursday,
the teams bowled against
Panas
. The Boys lost 0-7 to the second place team in the league. The Girls beat the undefeated first place Panas team 4-3! Congratulations to the team of Captain Riley Bresner, Lulu Zibenberg, Charlotte Templeton, Olivia Milch and Sami Miller. High series of 323 went to Sami Miller. High game of 111 went to Charlotte Templeton.
On Monday the team bowls against North Salem.
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CHEERLEADING
The Greeley Cheerleaders are ecstatic to get their competitive season underway this weekend! The team will be competing in
Saturday and Sunday this weekend (1/11-12) at Mahopac School and Mount Vernon High School.
This year they are working hard on going back to basics to improve and perfect their technique, reduce risk of injuries by increasing stunt safety. The winter team is coached by Meghan Vlad, Seven Bridges Health teacher and Kristen Pyrch, BOCES intern at Seven Bridges. Give the team a follow on
Instagram@greeleycheer
Good luck team!
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Happy New Year and welcome back G-Puck Universe. A major game is just around the corner, the big matchup vs.
John Jay
(9-1-1 ranked #3 in NYS Division II) on
Sunday January 12 at
7:10PM at Brewster Ice Arena (apologies for last week’s blurb that had the upcoming games off a day due to a time zone faux pas)! Greeley comes into the game with a 7-3 record and no state ranking but an ax to grind after losing to JJ in the semifinals last year despite being favored. G-Puck seems to do better as the underdog. Regardless of records and rankings, this is going to be a great and highly competitive matchup of two of the best teams in Section 1. If you are going to see just one game this year, this should be the one. G-Puck’s Ice Dawgz student fans will be receiving noise sticks to make an oversized impression (see below). Rest assured, JJ will have a massive student fan section so we really could use some help spreading the word to fight fire with fire and give our team the loud encouragement they deserve and feed off.
In its first game back last night,
Wednesday January 8,
G-Puck dispensed pretty easily with
Clarkstown
with a 6-1 victory at Palisades Mall. Although Greeley jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead barely a minute into the game on a goal by sophmore Ben Cohen on a nice feed from sophomore Ilan Laurence and junior Joe Lamb, a fair bit of post holiday rust was evident in the 1st period. The game would remain 1-0 after one. Palisades resurfaces the ice between both periods and, well something happened to Greeley in that locker room between periods. They kind of came out possessed. Junior defenseman Dylan Mutkoski sort of set the tone about 3 minutes into the period, taking matters into his own hands with a nearly end to end rush and a quick release screen shot between the opposing defenseman’s legs that the Clarkstown goalie didn’t pick up. The unassisted goal made the score 2-0. A minute later, Ilan Laurence would get in on the action again with a sweet goal assisted by Ben Cohen and sophmore Gabe Adams. A couple minutes later with G-Puck down a man, senior Jake Potter, always tenacious and aggressive on the penalty kill, literally stole the puck in the high slot of the Clarkstown zone and quickly buried a wrist shot for an unassisted shorty. Not long after, just past the midway point of the 2nd period, Gabe Adams would bury a juicy rebound off a shot from Dylan Mutkoski who had ventured down into the crease in the back door area and received a pass from Ben Cohen. Adam’s goal would cap a 4 goal second period outburst giving G-Puck a 5-0 lead after two periods. Clarkstown would spoil the shutout with a pretty setup early in the third period to make the score 5-1. Greeley would answer with one more later in the third, a beautiful feed (does he have eyes in the back of his head?) from Jake Potter to senior Tony Girardi to make it 6-1 with about 3 minutes to go. Dylan Mutkoski received an assist on the goal, having lofted the biscuit from the Greeley zone into center ice and onto the stick of the streaking Potter to yield a partial breakaway. The unselfish Potter somehow saw Girardi trailing and spun a pass back to him right on the tape in the high slot and Girardi just buried it. Final score in the tuneup for Sunday’s game, Greeley 6 – Clarkstown 1. All three goaltenders got some time in for G-Puck in this one. Junior Arye Wolberg played the first 2 periods and stopped all 17 shots he faced. Sophomore Ben Madden played roughly the first 10 minutes of the 3rd period, stopping 3 of 4 shots faced (note: Clarkstown’s lone goal was a brilliant set up, kind of a tic tac toe play of the kind that’s nearly impossible to save). Freshman Ryne Wolberg took roughly the last 5 minutes in net stopping all three shots he faced.
Scoring summary: Ben Cohen – 1 goal and 2 assists, Dylan Mutkoski – 1 goal and 2 assists, Ilan Laurence – 1 goal and 1 assist, Jake Potter – 1 goal and 1 assist, Gabe Adams – 1 goal and 1 assist, Tony Girardi – 1 goal, and Joe Lamb – 1 assist.
Next up
John Jay, Sunday 7:10 PM at Brewster Ice Arena.
Calling all G-Puck fans and Student Ice Dawgz fans. Let’s see a great showing for what should be one of the best games of the year!
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BOYS SWIM AND DIVE
The multi-headed Hydra of mythological lore was a formidable opponent which took a Herculean effort to overcome. Greeley faced its own Hydra at the Ardsley Middle school pool, in the form of a team drawing top talent from 5 towns (Ardsley, Hastings, Edgemont, Dobbs Ferry and Irvington - AKA: AHEDI). This was a true battle of the Titans fighting for first place in their division of Section 1. In a meet that had no diving (as AHEDI has no divers) the final event, the 400 free style relay decided the meet winner. AHEDI, with a first place finish in that event took down Gswim in a hotly contested battle. The meet started with Greeley 1st and 3rd place finishes in the 200 medley relay led by Nikita Sakharuk, Wyatt Yates, Hudson Chung and Jon Suh winning 1st and 3rd going to Rafe Coffino, Jack Engle, Alex Du and Evan Wohl for the lion share of the available points. The next 3 races (200 free, 200 IM, and 50 free) saw Greeley capture points with 2nd place finishes by John Laidlaw, Hudson Chung, and Jon Suh as well as 4th place points from Luke McHugh, Nikita Sakharuk, and Wyatt Yates, and Alex Du with 5th. In the 100 fly we placed 3rd and 4th with Nikita and Jack Engel, respectively. We captured 2nd and 3rd places in the 100 free by Jon Laidlaw and Luke McHugh, respectively and a 1st and 3rd in the 500 free style by the indomitable John Laidlaw and Jack Engel. The 200 free relay produced a 2nd place finish by Nikita, Wyatt, Luke and Jon and 3rd place for Alex Du, Adam Nack, Jack Moran and John Laidlaw. In the 100 back, Greeley won points for 2nd, 4th and 5th led by Hudson, Noah Falbaum and Rafe Coffino. Greeley then surged within 4 points of the lead by sweeping the 100 breast with a 1, 2, 3 finish by Wyatt Yates, Stephen Pearce and Alex Du. So despite a stalwart effort in the 400 free style relay by Luke McHugh, Jack Engel, Hudson Chung and John Laidlaw, their 2nd place finish was not enough to retake the lead. All in all a hard fought meet of great intensity. The good news is that GSwim will have another opportunity to take on the AHEDI squad at Divisionals. No doubt that date will be high up on the Greeley bulletin board. Remember, Hercules ultimately chopped off all of the Hydra heads!
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SKIING
The Greeley Ski Team had a timed gate training practice at Catamount Mountain right before the break. It was great to finally get on snow and run some gates with the team!
Unfortunately, our first League Race at Thunder Ridge was canceled this week due to not being able to set gates due to the warm temperatures and rain we have been having. The team had our annual pizza run to town today instead!
We have a League Race, our First SL Qualifier and our first required GS next week and are hoping the balmy, rainy weekend doesn’t completely wash out our races next week!
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WRESTLING
T
he Greeley Grapplers hit the mat
Wednesday, January 8
for their first home league match of the season against a tough
Port Chester team.
This was an exciting event filled with some hard fought matches and well-attended by fans, parents, and alumni. Strong matches by Tommy Antes, Luke Richards, Isabella Garcia, and Oliver Ault. Great wins by Esaad Ashraf, Jeton Shabaj, and Michael Ametrano. The most thrilling matches of the night were by Ho Jin Lee and Brady McCarthy both by pin and Nick Ng calling the match. Our next home match is
Tuesday, January 14
at 4:30 p.m. in the back gym vs.
White Plains
. Come out and show your support.
The team has a busy 10 days ahead with 2 league matches, The Eastern States Tournament this Friday and Saturday at Sullivan Community College, and the Westchester County Tournament at Yonkers High School on Saturday, January 18. The Eastern States Classic is a competitive tournament that will host 562 wrestlers competing from seven states. Representing Greeley will be Isabella Garcia at the 106 weight class, Tommy Antes at 113, Oliver Ault at 120, Vinny Sasso at 160, and Michael Ametrano at 182.
Wish us luck…
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INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
Preparing for League Championship Meet 1/12
The Greeley Indoor Track and Field team was busy over the holiday break and into the first week of January, competing at 4 separate meets. In addition to the League Championship Meet coming up on Sunday 1/12 (come out to the Armory and cheer for your Quakers!), Kira Lindner will be competing on Friday 1/10 at the Yale Track Classic, and the team is looking forward to the Freshman/Novice meet on 1/15. On Saturday 12/21, Joe O’Brien improved his Greeley record for the indoor Mile, running a PR 4:24.34 at the Energice Coaches Hall of Fame Invitational at the Armory. Joe placed 1
st
in this invitational event – awesome!
On
Saturday 1/4,
Nathan Foote, Hugh McGuire, Joe O’Brien, and Rishi Young improved their #3 all-time Greeley indoor 4x800m time, running in 8:17.66 and taking 3
rd
place at the 25
th
US Air Force Hispanic Games at the Armory. At the same meet, Aaron Foote and Thomas Ye ran the 800m (not typically run indoors) – Aaron ran 2:07.11 for 40
th
place and Thomas ran 2:09.73 for 70
th
place out of nearly 300 runners. Both of these times are improvements over their outdoor PRs in the event.
On
Monday 1/6
, most of the team travelled to RCC to compete at the Section 1 Dendy meet against 18 other Section 1 teams. Top results from the meet:
Caroline Lerner – 1
st
place Pole Vault
Boys 4x200m team – Ryan Guber, Jared Caspar, Will Dionne, Henry Nicklin – 1
st
place
Boys 4x400m team – Hugh McGuire, Rishi Young, Thomas Ye, Aaron Foote, – 1
st
place
Girls 4x800m team – Isabella Smith, Camila Cognac, Kathryn Hulme, Mariah Walsh – 2
nd
place
Ryan Guber – 3
rd
place 55m
Alex McKenney – 3
rd
place Pole Vault
Girls 4x200m team – Georgia Shropshire, Sabrine Elbouhali, Noa Souccar, Hannah Fetzer – 5
th
place
Owen Clendenin – 5
th
place Shot Put
On Wednesday 1/8,
Greeley sent 15 athletes to the Armory to compete in the
Millrose Games Trials
against top athletes representing 175 schools from 5 states around the region. Top results from the meet:
Kira Lindner – 3
rd
place Weight Throw
Joe O’Brien – 4
th
place 1 Mile
Updates to the Greeley all-time top 5 record board for Indoor Track and Field:
Joe O’Brien improved his #1 all-time indoor Mile time, running in 4:24.34.
Ryan Guber tied his #1 all-time indoor 55m time, running in 6.82.
Alex McKenney tied his #1 all-time indoor Pole Vault, clearing 10ft 0in.
Caroline Lerner is now in sole possession of 2
nd
place all-time in indoor Pole Vault, clearing 8ft 0in.
Rishi Young took the #2 all-time spot for the indoor mile, running in 4:31.49.
Nathan Foote, Hugh McGuire, Joe O’Brien, and Rishi Young improved their #3 all-time mark for the indoor 4x800m relay, running in 8:17.66. They are closing in on the top 2 spots.
Hugh McGuire, Nathan Foote, Wesley Baccay, and Aaron Foote took the #4 all-time spot for the indoor 4x800m relay, running in 8:19.64.
Hugh McGuire, Rishi Young, Thomas Ye, and Aaron Foote took the #4 all-time spot for the indoor 4x400m relay, running in 3:47.10.
Ryan Guber, Jared Caspar, Will Dionne, and Henry Nicklin took the #5 all-time spot for the 4x200m relay, running in 1:40.10.
Congratulations to 27 athletes who set or established a new PR!
Clare Dong – 300m
Hannah Fetzer – 300m
Kathryn Hulme – 1000m
Caroline Lerner – Pole Vault (tie)
Sara Lippin – 600m
Allison Lupatkin – Triple Jump
Bertha Shipper – 1000m
Helen VanDenbergh-Curry – Pole Vault (tie)
Leela Young – 300m
Wesley Baccay – 1000m
Mason Barlow – 1000m
Matthew Carnes – 1000m
John Gonzalez – 1000m
Nicholas Gonzalez – 1000m
Zachary Goodman – 600m
Ryan Guber – 55m (tie)
Danny Hoffman – 300m
Stephen Hotchkin – 55m
James Kissane – 1000m
Daniel Luan – 1000m
Cooper Lynch – 600m, High Jump
Alex McKenney – Pole Vault (tie)
Justin Ng – 1000m
Joe O’Brien – Indoor Mile
Anthony Rusigno – 1000m
Benjamin Wang – 1000m
Rishi Young – 1 Mile
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OLD SCHOOL TIE
Don Reynolds Greeley '41
They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore
But for ubiquitous quotations memorized from Shakespeare, Forrest Gump, The Godfather
and Rhett Butler, we might never have remembered those who described our year, 1941, saying, "They don't make 'em like that anymore!"
The night in June '41 Robert E. Bell handed out fewer than 30 diplomas, one of his final Greeley acts, a maniac in Germany played a more decisive role in our future by invading Russia after subduing western Europe and leaving a solitary defender, Great Britain. A few months later on December 7, a misfit in Japan brought us to active war by smashing our fleet in Hawaii. With a generation busy enlisting, two professional athletes conducted an impossible competition on the baseball diamond… in the summer of '41. Only one was MVP but should a tie have been designated?
Joe DiMaggio completed a 56-game consecutive hitting streak
,
and Ted Williams batted over .400 his way, refusing an asterisk in the records. Batting 399.5 the last day of the '41 season
,
Williams decided to not sit out and asterisk his way to .400, but go to bat 8 times with six hits and reach .406, even though manager Joe Cronin urged him to go the easy way and take the shared designation with an asterisk. Ted later served for three years as a fighter pilot in World War 2 and again in the Korean conflict. Was Williams the best hitter in history? One year he reached base safely more than 50% and struck out only 27 times. As baseball elders, careers completed, the two "agreed to agree" that Ted was the greatest hitter and Joe the greatest player in baseball history.
After that, they went to war with the rest. "They don't make ‘em like that anymore!" Do they?
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