Pelham Daily Sports Digest: Rugby Season Starts

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The Top Spot:

Pelham’s Elementary Flag Team:

The Pelham elementary flag rugby team went 2-1 Sunday at the first Chelsea Waterside Park tournament of the spring season.

Fielding a squad of 14, Pelham beat Boys Club 4-3 and Rockaway 7-4, showing off some particularly sharp passing moves against Rockaway.  In the last game of the afternoon, Lycée defeated Pelham 7-1.

Playing for Pelham were Avery Archibald, Connor Evans, Elliot Brandler, Guy Eustace, Grant Rolls, James Hupprich, Julia Davis, Luca Phillips, Max Laval, Nicholas Hibbler, Patrick Zahradnik, Reed O’Brien, Justin O’Beirne and Andrew Clausen.

Pelham next plays at Chelsea this Sunday.

Pelham Sixth & Seventh Rugby Team:

The Pelham seventh/eighth grade tackle rugby team won the first two games of the season Sunday, while the sixth/seventh grade team was edged in their first pair of matches.

The seventh/eighth grade team, the reigning league champions, first faced Rockaway, the early season favorites to run away with the title. Rockaway are big and aggressive and have been playing just as long as Pelham. In earlier action Sunday, Rockaway destroyed Manhattan, setting up a showdown with Pelham.

In an extremely hard-hitting, well-played game Pelham won 4-2, with two tries scored by Whit Johnson, one by Xavier Worsley, and one by newcomer North Westall to secure the win. In the second game, victory over Manhattan was decided on the final play of the game. Matt Biskup hit a Manhattan player, dislodging the ball for newcomer Jake Soifer to scoop up and score in the corner.

Players for Pelham were Cian Burns, Whit Johnson, Matt Biskup, Dan Biskup, Xavier Worsley, North Westall, Jack Weyndling, James Cahill, Alex Calder, Kees Huisman, Matt Rabinowitz, Nick Roll, Quinn Scanlon, Jake Soifer and Morgan Collins.

The sixth/seventh graders first took on a strong Manhattan side that fielded predominantly seventh graders against a Pelham team mostly made up sixth graders. Pelham lost the match, 5-3.

In the second game, Pelham took on a very big team from Long Island and kept it close until the final few minutes, eventually losing 8-3. Luke Persanis scored five tries in both games, and Sofia Imperato tallied on an absolutely brilliant run late in the second game. Quinn Scanlon tackled everything that came near him, Adam Razick had some fantastic runs, and Pelham’s two little guys, Tamio Shibasaki and Jack Fronce, were the best tacklers.

Playing on the sixth/seventh team were Jack Fronce, Luke Persanis, Adam Razick, Cameron Ward, Sofia Imperato, Quinn Scanlon, Chris Davis, Jean Vigroux, Quinn Jenkins, Tamio Shibasaki, James Bristow and Kyle Lefler.

For more information: www.PelhamRugby.com

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Tennis

Game: Pelham vs. Edgemont

Score: Pelham Won 5-2 

Sport: Softball

Game: Eastchester vs. Pelham

Score: Pelham Won 7-3

Today’s Schedule:

In baseball, Nyack heads to Pelham at 4:15 p.m.

In boys tennis, Pelham heads to Scarsdale B at 4:15 p.m.

In girls lacrosse, Pelham hosts Eastchester at Glover Field at 7 p.m.

Weekly Sports Poll:

This week’s sports poll asks Wednesday night the Rangers picked up a huge three overtime victory as they beat Washington 2-1 and 70 percent of the time the team that wins a multiple overtime game they go on to win the series. The series continues Saturday afternoon on NBC at 12:30 p.m. 

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