When Lindsey Patterson went down with an MCL tear in her knee during a powder puff football game earlier in the school year, she thought her ski season was over before it even started.
The two high schools are 30 miles apart. But Cornwall and FDR have a connection. Lou Cioffi is filling in as FDR’s athletic director, after serving in that capacity in Cornwall for nine years.
Like a spirited distance runner, the Lady Dragons used a finishing kick to pull away from their opponents in the closing minutes of a Friday night basketball game in Goshen.
The Dragons on the sidelines were no longer watching the field. They were focused on the scoreboard clock, which was spitting out the time in tenths of a second.
Coming from a family with a military background, Alex Combs always envisioned joining an ROTC program after high school, but when the Cornwall senior received an invitation to run track for West Point, he couldn’t refuse the offer.
The Friday night game had just ended. Most of the spectators were still in the stands, as Joe McConville and the Monticello coach (Chris Russo) spoke briefly on the court.