Monroe-Woodbury senior Marco Vespa has committed to wrestle at three-time defending national champion Penn State. Vespa placed third in the state at 120 pounds and was voted the most outstanding wrestler at the Section 9 Division I tournament last season. He is a three-time Section 9 champion. Vespa’s 169 career wins are fifth in school [...]
The Newburgh Free and Middletown boys basketball teams will compete in the four-day Slam Dunk tournament in December at Westchester County Center in White Plains. Newburgh Free Academy opens with White Plains on Dec. 19 at 6:15 p.m. in a four-team bracket with Iona Prep and Byram Hills. The Goldbacks return leading scorers Zach Barnes [...]
Here’s a list of the Varsity 845 2018 graduates and where they will be attending college this fall. If we are missing anyone, please send us a direct message on Twitter @Varsity845 Football FCS (Division I-AA) Max Heinrich (Goshen) Marist Pete Matthews (Newburgh Free Academy) Robert Morris Nick Wiley (Goshen, Don Bosco Prep) Colgate, walk-on [...]
Ryan Trieste may have been Section 9′s most improved baseball player this spring. Trieste increased his average by 122 points to .382 and drove in 32 runs, up from 10 in 2017. Trieste’s strides were recognized Thursday when it was announced that Cornwall’s senior second baseman had made the state Class A first-team. Trieste was [...]
Marlboro junior shortstop Sam Mongelli led the Varsity 845 area in hitting for the second straight season, batting .517. Mongelli’s five home runs and 32 RBI tied for the area lead. One of the more crazy statistics of the season were Tuxedo junior Joe Castellanos’ 120 strikeouts. No word on if that’s a Section 9 [...]
Marlboro junior Sam Mongelli was the toughest hitter in Section 9 to get out this spring. Mongelli’s .517 average led the area and the shortstop struck out just once in 60 at-bats. Mongelli, the Varsity 845 player of the year, wasn’t too shabby on the mound either, earning a 4-0 record with 39 strikeouts in [...]
Rondout Valley sophomore Amber Pennington posted the fourth-best score of the final round, carding a 1-over-par 73, to top all Section 9 golfers at the state championship at Bethpage’s Yellow Course in Farmingdale. Pennington, the two-time Section 9 champion, moved from 23rd to ninth place (12-over 156). She had 15 pars and one birdie in [...]
OCIAA champions Gabriel Castillo of Washingtonville and Cornwall’s Emil Vyskocil and Will Webber earned the top seeds at the Section 9 tennis championships Wednesday and Thursday at Match Point Tennis in Goshen. MHAL champions Dan Feigelson of Millbrook and New Paltz’s Noah Kalus and Issac Cheriuyot are the second seeds. Defending singles champion Lucas Arora, [...]
Rondout Valley sophomore Amber Pennington shot an even-par 71 and is six shots clear of the field after the first round of the Section 9 championship at Apple Greens Golf Course in Highland. Pennington is 18 holes away from her second section championship. She won the tournament as an eighth-grader in 2016. Pine Bush senior [...]
Washingtonville sophomore Gabriel Castillo captured his first Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Athletic singles title, defeating defending champion Lucas Arora of Cornwall 6-0, 6-1. Cornwall senior Emil Vyskocil and junior Will Webber won the OCIAA doubles title, knocking off Newburgh Free Academy senior Jack Clayton and Matt Reinhold, the top seed, 6-4, 6-2 at Match Point Tennis [...]
