Bronx Science had no reason to pitch to Riverdale/Kingsbridge junior shortstop Nelyssa Rosario. Not in the fourth inning. Not with two runners on. Not ahead by four runs.
“She’s just an unbelievable hitter,” Wolverines coach Tom Morris said.
So, Morris called for pitcher Kelly Chewens to intentionally walk Rosario. The sophomore hurler had the right idea on the first pitch, but the second one she threw directly over the plate and Rosario belted a three-run home run.
RKA got within one run on the homer, then took the lead in the fifth, but Bronx Science tied the game up in the sixth and went ahead in the seventh in what was a wild, 14-11 road win against Riverdale/Kingsbridge on Tuesday in PSAL Bronx A softball.
“It was a lot closer than it needed to be,” Morris said. Read more..
The Morris and Jane Addams baseball teams have had their ups and down since moving up to Class A, winning their fair share of league games but also seeing the losses pile up. Overall, each coach has said, the change has benefited his program.
Riverdale/Kingsbridge is just as happy.
The Tigers, without those two rivals to deal with, have enjoyed quite a season. They are 9-0, all alone in first place in Bronx B North, two games clear of second-place Bronx Science.
Coach Mac Psachie credits basic winning tenets – pitching and defense – for his team’s continued success. Read more..
To reach Michael Loeb’s grade 6 special needs class, visitors must first check in with the armed security guard who sits at the head of the school’s cavernous and windowless ground-floor lobby.
The school’s hallways, also starved of natural light, are a sickly olive green. But Mr Loeb’s fourth-floor classroom explodes with colour - the blue and yellow of his alma mater, George Washington University, forms the backdrop to displays of student work and exhortations to achieve. “Every student will grow a year and a half in reading,” declares one mission statement.
To call Fred Caprista’s first season as the George Washington football coach a rocky start would be putting it mildly.
The varsity program was forced to forfeit the entire season because Caprista, who was interviewed for the job six months earlier, was hired late and there were no medical forms completed or parental consent releases signed. He instead coached the JV team, which went 0-8.
“We got a lot of work to do,” he thought.
The third-seeded Trojans have caught up in a hurry. They won their final eight regular-season games and shocked No. 2 South Bronx, 24-8, on Sunday afternoon to advance to the Cup Division championship where they will meet No. 1 Far Rockaway, the only team to have beaten Washington back in Week 1.
“It’s been gradual,” said Caprista, who had coached at Peekskill and McKee/Staten Island Tech previously, of the team’s improvement. “It’s been a slow but steady process.” Read more..
I GREW up in the rough-and-tumble Morrisania section of the East Bronx. I’m not sure when Morrisania’s gangs began, but they were already there during the Revolutionary War.
It wasn’t patriots and Tories who battled it out in Morrisania during the British occupation of Manhattan, a period that lasted from 1776 to 1783, but their surrogates, called Skinners and Cowboys, who scalped men, molested women and murdered children of both sides.
The gangs of Boston Road and Southern Boulevard circa 1950 weren’t as mean and malicious, but I lived in a whirlwind of chaos nevertheless, where I was my own urban guerrilla who had to battle his way to school block by block.
There were terrible racial and religious divides in Morrisania. I belonged to the little enclave of poor Polish and Russian Jews that collected at the borders of Crotona Park.
There might have been physicists living in the Byzantine palaces of Crotona Park East, but they were failed physicists, men inhabiting some mysterious cocoon that no one could explain, least of all themselves.
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