Annual opening-day event brings out a crowd
Despite the overcast and chilly morning weather last Saturday morning, hundreds of New Paltz youths suited up and took to the streets, proudly displaying their team name and colors for the annual opening day parade hosted by the New Paltz Baseball Association (NPBA). Big Bird made an appearance, much to the delight of the T-ballers...
Twenty-four-hour endurance challenge planned for Mohonk Preserve
Mark your calendars, strap on your walking/running shoes, set a goal, make a plan — because Rock the Ridge, a 24-hour-long, 50-mile walk/run endurance challenge, is coming to the Mohonk Preserve on May 4. According to avid runner and Preserve enthusiast Ken Posner, who is one of the event managers, the concept of a 24-hour...
Girls ask for Highland varsity lacrosse team
Coaches, parents and students gathered at Highland High School last week to ask for a little gender equity — at least when it comes to lacrosse. Right now, girls from Highland have the opportunity to play lacrosse up until they get to high school on a town-sponsored team. But once they graduate to Highland High...
Highland boys’ soccer at .500
It’s been awhile since the Highland boys’ soccer team was playing .500 ball. Half-a-decade at least. But that’s where they are midway through September and after five games played — the Huskies, with their 3-0 shutout of Port Jervis on Saturday, are 2-2-1. With “new” old-school head coach Frank Alfonso toughening their “tudes,” the boys,...
New Paltz football crushes Onteora and Rondout
Alright, they’re not exactly Marlboro. But the way the New Paltz football team ran all over both Onteora and Rondout — in the space of just five days — certainly bodes well for another Huguenots’ run at a Section 9 title. And run they did. Against Onteora it was close to 500 yards on the...
Going the distance
Shane Eversfield, a part-time New Paltz resident and an uber triathlete, is “going the distance” for Mohonk Preserve by participating in back-to-back, multisport events in September. On Sept. 10 and then again on Sept. 11, he will “gracefully endure” the American Zolfingen Long Course Duathlon (the AZ) and the Survivial of the Shawangunk triathlon (the...
At the net
Last season New Paltz girls’ tennis had it all — well almost (there is always Spackenkill to spoil everything), a 9-1 regular season record (the only loss? to Spackenkill…of course) and an MHAL doubles title by Johanna Cohen and Emma Snook (the first girls’ title since 2005 when Yael Liebovitch and Mary Bostwick won the...
A squeaker at Pancake Hollow
If offensive plays had been the gauge out at Pancake Hollow in Saturday’s home-opener between home-standing Highland and visiting Rondout, then the Ganders should have put away the Huskies by some three touchdowns. But if potential big plays were to be the standard for the game, then the combination of missed chances by the...