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    • Boys Beat Packer-Collegiate, Advance to Semifinals
    By Alex Ma
    With 2:11 left in the third quarter, starting Forward Charlie Sadaka (12) wrenched the ball from the hands of Packer-Collegiate guard Julius Moreno. Sadaka then tore down court toward the Pelicans’ basket. Drawing contact from the four Pelican defenders who had hustled back to defense, Sadaka desperately scooped the ball towards the basket with both hands. To the surprise of everyone in the building, especially Sadaka, the improvised shot fell into the hoop, tying the game at 35-35 and sending him to the free-throw line for an and-one opportunity.

    The Varsity Boys’ Basketball team would not trail for the remainder of the contest, ultimately pulling away with a 53-41 victory, and advancing to the next round of the NYSAISAA Championship tournament.

    New York Knicks Attend Charity Event at HM
    By Alex Ma
    With Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” blaring in the Prettyman Gymnasium on Sunday, over 120 kids, some as young as three years old, lined up to meet and sign autographs with current and former Knicks players, among them present forward Danilo Gallanari and former shooting guard John Starks.

    “This is a huge event – it’s very cool,” Holden Lipton, a first grader at Allen-Stevenson said. “He’s [Holden] a huge Knicks fan – he goes to every single home game,” his friend Harry Ruff (a third grader at Allen-Stevenson) interjected. Many kids cited meeting Gallinari and getting autographs from players as their favorite part of the event.

    Épée Fencers Take 3rd at ISFL Champs: Surprise Performance Best In School History
    By Rachel Scheinfeld
    Despite a young, inexperienced roster, the Varsity Fencing team silenced doubters with wins at the ISFL championship last Saturday. “Overall it was definitely a successful match. A lot of newer fencers really stepped up to varsity level and had some great performances and they are well on their way to being great in future years,” co-Captain Mark Levine-Weinberg (12) said.

    The eight members of the épée team, led by captain Nicole Bleuel (12), came in third place out of seven teams. “We did really well at the tournament, and it was a team effort,” Alexa Lambert (11) said. Throughout the tournament, Bleuel kept a list of memorable moments, including Miguel Alonso-Lubell (11) beating Alan Phipps, who is one of the best épée fencers in the league, players said.

    Frances Kronenberg (9) Makes Junior Olympic Ski Team
    By Sarah Swong
    Freshman ski racer Frances Kronenberg will carve her path down the snow-capped mountains of Sunday River, Maine at the Junior Olympics in two weeks.

    The Junior Olympics, the most competitive U.S. event for amateur skiers, hosts races for the top seven placers from the all-state races, Kronenberg said. Unlike the Olympic games, the Junior Olympic games are exclusively U.S. competitions split up by specific sport and region, she said.

    Track Staggers to Disappointing Finish
    By Sarah Sicular & Gillian Miller-Lewis
    The Boys’ and Girls’ Winter Track team entered this year’s Ivy League Championship “well prepared,” Head Coach and Assistant to the Head of School for Diversity Rodney Burford said. However, the meet ended in disappointing results for both teams; the Girls’ took third while the Boys’ took sixth.

    The girls came in third place with sixty-five points, a mere point behind second- place Poly Prep Country Day School and only five points behind champion Hackley School. However, had long distance captain Antonia Woodford (12) been entered in the 1600m race, Erika Whitestone (11) and Sarah Sicular (11) run the two mile, and a 4 x 4 relay team consisting of Lori Dershowitz (11), Dana Bolster (9), Anna Christina Arvanitis (11) and Alexa Ginsburg (11) been slotted, the girls’ team would have almost certainly triumphed, Middle and Long Distance coach Drew Samuels said. Had the girls been entered properly, they could have won, he said.

    Vancouver 2010
    By Josh Goodstein
    Shaun White:

    After posting 46.8 score on his first run, which already guaranteed first place position, 23-year-old American snowboarding sensation Shaun White (a.k.a. The Flying Tomato) decided to pull out all the tricks in his bag, scoring 48.4 in his next run. White landed the Double Mctwist 1260 on his victory lap, a two-flip, three-and-a-half rotation spin; a trick unheard of in the Snowboarding community and that reaffirmed his image as the Snowboard king.