Karate tournament in New Paltz
The New Paltz Karate Academy held its tenth annual tournament, featuring over 200 competitors from five schools, on February 18. The tournament at Lenape Elementary School included students from New Paltz Karate Academy, Traditional Okinawan Karate of Pleasant Valley, Traditional Okinawan Karate of Brooklyn, Traditional Okinawan Karate of Kinnelon, NJ., and East Morris Karate Academy...
Mah-jongg players gather in New Paltz, Gardiner
An otherwise sleepy room in the New Paltz Jewish Community Center bustled with laughter, idle threats, gentle trash talking and a curious clicking akin to the sound of dominos falling over on Monday afternoon. Two tables with four players were rapt, transfixed with the strategy of what to do next with tiles adorned by Chinese...
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...